Saturday 30 October 2010

Evolution - Sean Penn

For those who like to see this kind of thing I thought I'd put this little progress montage up of the painting I posted recently of Sean Penn.
Like most images it started off as a digital pencil sketch although you'll notice the pencil stages are more cropped compared to how the final image was realised. Originally I'd set out to do just a pencil drawing but then I thought I'd give it the full paint treatment. It was at this stage I thought I'd expand the composition as Mr Penn still sports a fine head of lustrous hair and it seemed a waste not to put that all in. So it was just a case then of placing the drawing in a new document and, well, painting over the top...just as you see it above. No student would be told to follow me as an example of how to paint a face as quite often I don't bother to build up a base or work out colour values from dark to light. I just pick a start point and jump right on in, ha, ha!

6 comments:

  1. very interesting Russ...wish my painted caricatures turned out like that

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  2. Thanks for sharing your process.It's an unorthodox approach, but very efficient! Great work!

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  3. fantastic tutorial, thanks for sharing, and of course stylish and nice caricature

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  4. Thanks, Ari! - Glad you like it.

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