In the continued creation of a hyper-realistic monster, I reached the stage where one overlays textures onto the body. For my fellow Photoshop nerds, you take a picture of a texture, put it on its own layer, lower the opacity to around 30%, and tweak out the exposure so the texture looks like it’s on…
Read MoreThis vlog explores a work in progress, showing the various layers, such as the drawing layer over the color layers. I also discuss a claim mace by the editor of Hyperallergic (a very popular online art magazine) that art is not transcendent and never has been. Apparently art is about resisting power on your own…
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I don’t always work in the same way, but for this type of piece the ideal method would be to do a line drawing, then a shaded drawing, then a color version, and finally a painted version (of course I do this all digitally these days). Here I’ve started the painted version. Looks promising. This…
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New work underway. Still in the initial sketchy phase. This time I’m working in the near polar opposite way of the last piece. No drawing first. I’m just blocking in color, and rather clumsily at that. Later it will take on a very painterly and Expressionistic flavor, I think. Depends on my imagination, which I…
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