Just Another Pretty Face
Jun. 19th, 2004 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynA couple of weeks ago, I bought Let Them Eat Cheesecake, the aptly-named collection of Olivia paintings.
This put me in a mind to paint a cheesecake picture, which is ironic given that I don't like cheesecake all that much. Well, I do enjoy looking at scantily-clad women in wildly improbable poses. But not enough to hang them up in my living room, or to look at the same one for hours on end. And if I'm going to put all the time in to do a painting, I sort of have to stare at it for hours on end while I'm doing it.
I have this love/hate relationship with the whole idea of pinups. On the one hand, they're fun. They're fun to draw and they're fun to look at. On the other ... man, everyone does them. What do I need to paint pinups for? There are eighty bazillion of them out there already. Does the world really need one more cute naked chick?
Anyway, I wound up doing a portrait of a fully-clad woman. The face was based off of Olivia's "Whiplash", though the final result scarcely even bears a passing resemblance.
I like the way the hair turned out best. It's not perfect. But the color is right. I could do better with the waves and the positioning the next time.
This put me in a mind to paint a cheesecake picture, which is ironic given that I don't like cheesecake all that much. Well, I do enjoy looking at scantily-clad women in wildly improbable poses. But not enough to hang them up in my living room, or to look at the same one for hours on end. And if I'm going to put all the time in to do a painting, I sort of have to stare at it for hours on end while I'm doing it.
I have this love/hate relationship with the whole idea of pinups. On the one hand, they're fun. They're fun to draw and they're fun to look at. On the other ... man, everyone does them. What do I need to paint pinups for? There are eighty bazillion of them out there already. Does the world really need one more cute naked chick?
Anyway, I wound up doing a portrait of a fully-clad woman. The face was based off of Olivia's "Whiplash", though the final result scarcely even bears a passing resemblance.
I like the way the hair turned out best. It's not perfect. But the color is right. I could do better with the waves and the positioning the next time.
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Tools?
Date: 2004-06-19 08:10 am (UTC)--Howard
Re: Tools?
Date: 2004-06-19 08:28 am (UTC)Like most of my work, this started as a pencil sketch which was then scanned into my computer. I "painted" it digitally, in Corel Photopaint v 8.232. (Unlike the remaining 99.9999999% of digital artists, I don't use Photoshop or even Painter). I mostly used the airbrush tool in Photopaint for the lighting effects on the clothing.
I do some real media work (an example) but most of my color work is in digital for two reasons:
a) It's easy to pick up and put down -- no brushes to clean, paints to get out or put away, etc.
b) It's cheap.
It's surprising how compelling (b) can be as an argument. I'd be tempted to try markers -- I've seen people do lovely work with them and they'd be easier on (a) than my favorite real media, oils. But I just can't justify the expense of buying yet more art goodies when I know how little I use 'em.
The play of light on the clothing is very nice.
Thank you! (Howard Tayler complimented my work! Squeee!)