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I never tire of looking at his face. It is a landscape unto itself.
A virtually inexhaustible supply of details to study, facets to appreciate,
contours to explore.
1 hour, from reference.
...Learned something unique from this speedpaint.
Most artists working in color leave behind traces of a signature palette.
A telltale thumbprint of the combination of colors they prefer to use.
I tend to be blue / orange dominant...
but I shy away from purples and greens, finding them somehow mysterious and unwieldy.
Others might feel right at home in an emerald and amethyst playground, but to me they're foreign.
Prior related works could never quite nail his color pallette, and it wasn't until this time around that I figured out why.
Whenever I paint grays, I either make them a warm bronzey, or cold bluish-gray.
His grays, however, hedge firmly into green. I fretfully confess to long having neglected that gamut range.
You can see the very moment I figured out he was meant to go green. Right there- on the bridge of his nose.
Notice the little patch of blue-gray on his upper lip, ascending from the bronze before green takes over?
I left it as a reminder of how easily rosey glasses can make one selectively colorblind.
A virtually inexhaustible supply of details to study, facets to appreciate,
contours to explore.
1 hour, from reference.
...Learned something unique from this speedpaint.
Most artists working in color leave behind traces of a signature palette.
A telltale thumbprint of the combination of colors they prefer to use.
I tend to be blue / orange dominant...
but I shy away from purples and greens, finding them somehow mysterious and unwieldy.
Others might feel right at home in an emerald and amethyst playground, but to me they're foreign.
Prior related works could never quite nail his color pallette, and it wasn't until this time around that I figured out why.
Whenever I paint grays, I either make them a warm bronzey, or cold bluish-gray.
His grays, however, hedge firmly into green. I fretfully confess to long having neglected that gamut range.
You can see the very moment I figured out he was meant to go green. Right there- on the bridge of his nose.
Notice the little patch of blue-gray on his upper lip, ascending from the bronze before green takes over?
I left it as a reminder of how easily rosey glasses can make one selectively colorblind.
Category All / Fanart
Species Dragon (Other)
Size 760 x 760px
File Size 250.5 kB
That's mighty impressive work for an hour, and I do think you've got the colour pretty much prefect there.
I really like the way you paint things like this - how you manage to capture so much detail, but somehow do it without needing to go down to microscopically small brushes to do it. Not sure how else to word that, hopefully you know what I mean.
I also remember from my own early attempts that he's really hard to draw, simply due to being so complex! One day though I'll have another shot.
A lovely picture there, thanks for sharing it with us.
I really like the way you paint things like this - how you manage to capture so much detail, but somehow do it without needing to go down to microscopically small brushes to do it. Not sure how else to word that, hopefully you know what I mean.
I also remember from my own early attempts that he's really hard to draw, simply due to being so complex! One day though I'll have another shot.
A lovely picture there, thanks for sharing it with us.
I guess the artist who rendered his initial palette figured he was an aged green dragon, and aged green->verdigris->bronze->brownish mauve. It is fascinating to think of organic systems, like scale and skin colors, going toward extremes of age and see how that affects their palette. A professional artist is all about that sort of thing. Glad to have a bit of education on the subject.
This is AMAZING.
I love really sketchy work like this but can never bring myself to do anything like it or else I feel like I'm not finished.
As your icon it looks like a very soft photograph, and my favorite part of it is the very part you said you figured out he needed green in his pallete. =3
I love really sketchy work like this but can never bring myself to do anything like it or else I feel like I'm not finished.
As your icon it looks like a very soft photograph, and my favorite part of it is the very part you said you figured out he needed green in his pallete. =3
Not only is the artwork itself beautiful, but I love how you describe things...how a work of art changes as you make it, how one can suddenly learn something new at every turn. It brought a smile to my face, as I fight with some of the same things (amongst many others, artistically!) and often discover a few new things too, often by accident. Oh art, how fun you are! And you're right, Draco's face is a landscape in itself, isn't it?
I'm'a just gonna stare at this beautiful face for however long my eyes manage to stay open...
Damn! I HATE you... and your skillz (kidding! but I AM jealous as all heck). How you manage to make what appears to be almost randomized, expressionistic smears of "paint" resolve into that face (*drool*) is effing UHMAZIN'. *sits by your feet and watches how you do it, hoping to learn something*
I was in my early twenties when that movie came out, and I remember sitting there, my heart going all pitterpat whenever I saw him on-screen... *siiigh*
Damn! I HATE you... and your skillz (kidding! but I AM jealous as all heck). How you manage to make what appears to be almost randomized, expressionistic smears of "paint" resolve into that face (*drool*) is effing UHMAZIN'. *sits by your feet and watches how you do it, hoping to learn something*
I was in my early twenties when that movie came out, and I remember sitting there, my heart going all pitterpat whenever I saw him on-screen... *siiigh*
Interesting, what you said about the colors. You're precisely right. I've known for a while that Black is really blue-black, or purple-black, or green-black, but it never occurred to me that grey worked the same way. You certainly make your point with this speedpaint!
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