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Step 1 - Completed drawing blown up and pieced together
to scale 30"x40". The client wanted the snout
of the dragon on the left to be a little longer, so you
can see where I have altered that in this step.
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Step 2 - Close up of dragon with new snout...
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Step 3 - More of the final drawing close up...
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Step 4 - Final drawing. As you can see I have made the
dragon slightly larger, as well as, the turret in the lower
front. The drawing is now ready to be transferred to my
board to paint.
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Step 5 - This is the final drawing transferred down onto
my board. I made a few small changes to the soldiers and
added troops in the turret and on the wall.
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Step 6 - Blow up of transferred drawing...
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Step 7 - Blow up of transferred drawing...
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Step 8 - Blow up of transferred drawing...
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Step 9 - Started background and finished sky. Mountain
and tress are now roughed in. Larry says that the painting
is going smooth and under control from what his mind's eye
sees. Still a lot of meticulous work to be done...
1 Week Into the Painting
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Step 10 - Blow up of above...
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Step 11 - Blow up of sky...
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Step 12 - All the trees and sky are basically finished
and the mountains are 90% complete. I still have to apply
an orange glaze to the entire painting. I have been experimenting
with color on the buildings but am not sure what I want
to do yet...
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Step 13 - The follow photos are all detail shots of what
is basically finished (forest and trees). As you can see,
I have already applied the orange tint to the sky right
above the mountains on the left (Andrea loved the way that
looked...and she usually doesn't have much of an opinion
:) I have also added quite a bit of detail to the mountains
but they are far from finished.
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Step 14 - More detail shots...
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Step 15 - More detail shots...
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Step 16 - More detail shots...
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Step 17 - More detail shots...
2 Weeks Into Painting (with a LOT of interruptions)
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Step 18 - I put an orange glaze over most of the mountains,
forest and part of the sky. Now is when my color starts
to get crazy with my camera because the true color in the
painting lies somewhere between this and the following pictures.
This is one pretty close to the true colors of the sky and
mountains.
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Step 19 - Same as above but this one is closer to the true
color of the trees. Still overall too warm though. My camera
seems to really make the blues and purples too strong.
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Step 20 - Same as above but close up. I had to touch up
the mountains after I added the glaze. Parts of the mountains
were still wet so I had to correct them. This is why some
of the mountains look white and some look orange so they
still need some work.
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Step 21 - The overall color here looks pretty good but
the trees are a little too orange. When I talk about glazing
with orange, I use a straight cadmium orange glaze, thinned
with my medium, and add a transparent orange film to the
painting.
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Step 22 - The colors here are very very close (Andrea said
this looks the closest) with the exception to the area to
the right of the tower. The shadows from the trees are too
dark. As you can see I am still playing with colors on the
buildings and roofs.
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Step 23 - Same as above just close up…
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Step 24 - Same as above but there was a strong glare to
the right so it picked up some of the texture of the board.
I am now 2.5 weeks into the painting, however, I have not
got much done at all for the last few days because my wife’s
mother passed away over the weekend.
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Step 25 - Started to lay a base coat on the towers of the
castle.
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Step 26 - Same as above. I am still having trouble with
my lighting so you will notice in many of my photos, the
painting seems brighter on the left. My light source is
to the left which is making the painting appear darker (with
more contrast) on the right. This is especially noticeable
in some of the pictures in the next steps.
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Step 30 - Detail of above... Steps 25-30 were done in 2
days.
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Step 31 - Color looks pretty close here. I am starting
to add detail to the castle and added some color to the
lower dragon.
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Step 33 - Detail of the shadows on the castle. I am working
on adding more 'character'
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Step 35 - Color looks pretty good so far. Steps 31-35 took
a day.
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Step 36 - Color overall is pretty close. Remember my light
source is to the left. I am working on the detail of the
castle now and have added some initial color to the dragon.
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Step 42 - Detail shot... Steps 36-42 took about a day so
I am about
3 weeks into the painting now.
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Step 43 - Doing some more work on the dragon and detail
of the castle.
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Step 44 - Same as above...
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Step 45 - I glazed over the towers with the same orange
glaze and have done some more work on the dragon. It has
good base colors now but needs more work. The painting is
still appearing darker on the right than it truly is. The
blues are much more subtle than what they appear (especially
in the dragon) Because of my light source, parts of the
painting are appearing darker (with more contrast) than
they are.
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Step 46 - Still working with glaze...
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Step 48 - Working on the dragon a bit more...
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Step 50 - This takes me up to January 26th. We had a major
ice storm here and were without electric and internet. Yesterday
02-02-2009 was my first day back painting. We'll have another
update by Friday!
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Step 51 - First day back after the ice storm. I am working
on the the men on the wall and roughed on the blue dragon.
The colors of the dragons were chosen by the client.
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Step 52 - Same as above. Note the explanations in previous
posts regarding the problem I am having with my camera/lighting
capturing the true color.
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Step 53 - Same as above. Note the explanations in previous
posts regarding the problem I am having with my camera/lighting
capturing the true color.
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Step 54 - Working on the detail of the dragon.
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Step 55 - The blue dragon is still roughed in and has a
lot more work to go.
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Step 56 - Picture of where I am at thus far. Note the explanations
in previous posts regarding the problem I am having with
my camera/lighting capturing the true color.
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Step 57 - Same as above. Note the explanations in previous
posts regarding the problem I am having with my camera/lighting
capturing the true color.
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Step 58 - Detail of the work I am still doing on the guys
on the wall.
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Step 59 - Detail of the work I am still doing on the guys
on the wall.
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Step 60 - Detail of the work I am still doing on the guys
on the wall. I wanted to add that the actual size of the
men is very small. The largest face is about 1/2" wide.
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Step 61 - Same as above. For example: The little guy in
the middle holding the lance, has the widest face at less
than 1/2" wide. Steps 51 through 61 took about 2 days.
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Step 62 - Full shot just trying to show overall color and
progress. Same as before with the lighting issues. The true
color lies somewhere between step 62 and Step 63.
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Step 63 - Full shot just trying to show overall color and
progress. Same as before with the lighting issues. The true
color lies somewhere between step 62 and Step 63.
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Step 64 - Still just trying to show progress and color.
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Step 65 - Still just trying to show progress and color.
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Step 66 - I have been working on the blue dragon, but it
has been about 3 days since I took my last set of photos.
I have been working on the dragon and details. I added another
layer of blue to the dragon to start establishing anatomy
in detail, dirtied it up, and added another layer of blue.
Then I started painting the scales and giving it dimension.
Once that was done, I added the horns and the teeth, and
then glazed over it with a light orange glaze.
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Step 67 - Detail of work on dragon.
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Step 68 - Detail of work on dragon.
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Step 69 - Detail of work on dragon.
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Step 70 - Some final shots to show color. Again, colors
are not showing up accurately and are still too light in
some parts and too contrasty in others.
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Step 71 - Some final shots to show color. Again, colors
are not showing up accurately and are still too light in
some parts and too contrasty in others.
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