Continuing with our masters project this week, in which I’ve decided that upon having to scan in our hands and being asked to colour pick from them I decided why not draw my hand as my masters study?
I was going for the style of Dali (my favourite master). Upon more research he used long bold brush strokes to make objects and such to have a soft and light surface. I particularly used this technique in my work and I’m very happy with the outcome. It didn’t take that long to make and it work very well I thought. I’ve always been interested in his work and now I’ve really gotten to soft of try out his technique/style. Also he’d use harder shorter brush strokes on things that would appear to have a harder surface.
Attempt at emulating Dali.
I found that the traditional version was a more difficult just for the simple fact that it’s traditional! Meaning that the colour palette is limited where as using a tablet and Photoshop you’ve got an almost unlimited supply of colours thus making it easier to seek out the one you want I very much enjoyed this project, as much as I did last year. Last year I also painted the back of my hand as personal work, I thought it turned out well but this time it turned out better. I used a basically 2 brushes using oil on canvas. I think oil on canvas works so much better than trying to use water colours or acrylics, simply put I think it’s easier to layer over because the paints are so soft or in other words they don’t dry out easily an then making it harder to layer over or remove colours if you don’t want them. Like in Photoshop you have CTRL + Z to undo anything you don’t want where as traditional it’s a little harder.
Traditional version. Tried to make it look soft. *Note* this is a photo, a scanned version will follow soon once the paint dries.
Anyway in both practises I used big brush strokes and smaller ones where needed. In Photoshop I used the soft edged brush to create a gradient effect seen in most of Dali’s work. Dali would have hard edges around objects and usually soft shadows. Using darker tones of skin I was able to add shadows and highlights seen on my hand. It’s not an entirely accurate perfect mage of my hand but it’s the style that we’re going for. I found that even in my self portrait work that brown is basically the colour of the shadows created by light on the skin. Thus it is a mixture of red, peaches/pinks, yellow ochre, brown and blue and maybe a bit of orange pretty much what makes up flesh tones.
Dali's soft and hard approach.
In life drawing this week, some of us were experiment with paints however I feel that it’s a bit too much. Though I know that whenever you paint digitally of traditionally you should always put a base layer down which is what I’ve always done and build up layers of colours on top of each other, It’s no doubt that it’s the best way to do it. When I say that life drawing is a bit much, I mean that the pace we’re expected to work at is too much, 40 minutes on a painting isn’t long enough for me, I like to be accurate and ‘perfect’ about my work and I can only work at my own pace which is why most of my life drawing work looks very odd, inaccurate or unfinished, if given about 40 minutes for sketching I can get the body down how I want it and maybe find enough time for rendering but I like to take my time, I’m trying to become faster however with still life etc which may take me about 10-20 minutes...
1. Sketch, 2. Base Layer, 3. Adding shadows and highlights, 4. Adding tones, 5. Applying more colours, 6. Finished outcome.
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