This piece helped push me to make a finished piece and work past the rough/sketchy stage. It’s something I struggle to do.
I always love seeing an artist process, though I wish I documented it better.
First the sketch, usually I’ll clean it up more but I didn’t realize I was going to make this into a project lol. Thought it would be just a daily color study.
Next the colors. I’m really focusing more on value here then exactly color choices.
And here’s the big jump from a rough to an almost completed painting. Here is where I finally got some reference to correct the lighting.
And now I start figuring out a more interesting background.
Having changed the background now I need to clean up parts of the painting (mostly with the lighting). Here’s where I really cleaned up the face and changed the palette to be warmer. oh look, she’s no longer a floating head.
And then I added just a couple of adjustments and warmed the palette again.
