It's finally time to take it to the canvas! Or in this case... gessoed masonite.
Being the extraordinarily inefficient mess that I am, I decided to grid off my board (36x24 inches) and redraw the entire thing by sight rather than finding a way of just tracing/transferring my digital rough.
In truth, there were some areas of the dragon and rocks that I had been planning to redraw the whole time, so for the moment that approach seemed to make sense. Was it worth it in the end..? Eh, probably not; but after redrawing the head and feet 80 times each I did manage to end up with a drawing I was pleased with.
Please forgive the crappy photo:
I've heard that people use projectors and lightboxes for this sort of thing, but I never had the equipment to make it work. I always just did what you're doing and freehanded it. :-D
ReplyDeleteLooks good, though! I can't wait to see the painting process. I'm assuming you're using oils, right? (Seeing as everyone I read sneers at acrylic ...)
I'll be underpainting with acrylic and then finishing with oils. There's nothing wrong with acrylics, but they do perform differently than oils. Personally I find that oils take a little more work, but the way the paint sits on the canvas when it's finished just looks like a higher quality.
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