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Published: 2018-05-13 03:51:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 677; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 2
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The lighting was not the best for the exposure, but here is a close up look at some details in the "Fly, Windwalker, Fly" painting.From How To Steal A Dragon's Sword by Cressida Cowell.
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I can see now how you painted only some scales, though I think this looks better in painting than if I'd done that in pencil/colour pencils. I mean - I haven't found the way how and where to do that with pencils to make it look plausibly and not lazily and sloppy.
The detail is great though, I especially love Windwalker's head here.
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That is where practice and experimentation come in. Keep a pad, or a pile of paper, to do practice and experiments on with partial drawings that you do not intend to show anywhere. When you approach a drawing with the understanding that it will not be shown, that can free your mind to try things with the pencils that you'd be afraid to try on a drawing you are planning to show. I do that. I used a sheet from a canvas pad to practice painting dragons in the distance before I painted the Red Rage dragons into the Fly, Windwalker, Fly painting. I also did some experimenting with clouds while working up to doing that distant storm line.
I don't want you to think that I'm pushing, and I do not expect to see things change right away, so I'll just watch what you post for a while and see how you develop your style. I know from my own experience how trying new things with drawing or painting can be hit or miss.
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That's definitely the right way to do it. I must admit though that I'm not good (not disciplined enough) to do that (i.e. to just do some sketches for practise let's say poses or to draw just a page drawing hands, trying textrues, etc.), it seems way to "boring" and sort of a wasting the paper (I know it's not of course, it's just that I'm rather inspired and motivated to draw an actual scene or character (because I mostly draw fanarts) than to just practise. I actually did that sort of a thing for the first time only recently when I was trying to think out some things for (the future) third fancomics, but not sure if I would do it more often now.
Which means you probably actually get to see all my "practise drawings" on drawing scales and so on, because they're gonna be just normal drawing lol.
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Nice! Did you make this digitally or traditionally with paint? Because there are some stripes that suggest they were made on a canvas
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I happened to check in and saw that you've commented. Thank you for the faves on this and the image of the full painting.
This was painted with acrylics on a gessoed 8 x 24 inch hardwood panel. The stripes you see are artifacts of brushing the gesso onto the panel. I happen to like those lines of texture as they lead to little happy accidents and other areas of interest. I painted this, but when I look at the full resolution of this close-up image I see things that I didn't know had happened with the paint. That part of the wing leading edge that is in Hiccup's shadow amazes me. (Right at the wingroot.) The texture of the gesso is a part of that. Another happy accident (though not caused by the gesso) was that scar across the bridge of Windwalker's nose. I didn't plan that, but once it was there, it felt right.
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No prob
Oh ok!
I always love traditional drawing and seeing painted drawings like this, which was made with acrylic paint, amazes me. I am not a pro myself in painting traditionally (and I'm more into pencils), so I love seeing one of these paintings. Again, great job!
And the combo is an acrylic painting mixed with HTTYD?! Now this just made my day. <3
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