STEP-BY-STEP
A Step by Step Painting.
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0 This painting started with a photo-shoot with the beautiful and exotic model, Azziza who is also a belly dancer. She has a variety of really cool costumes and I loved this one with the wings. I will use 4 or 5 of these photos for reference for the painting. |
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OK, back to the drawing board...I make an initial drawing from the photo reference. I work on tracing paper, here because I will transfer the design to illustration board to paint on. |
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2 I usually don't put too much detail into my initial pencil drawings, preferring to do much of the actual rendering in the painting stage. |
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To transfer the pencil design to the illustration board, I rub graphite on the back of the tracing and trace back over that to the board. I am going to paint this one with acrylics, so there's no big need for clean, detailed pencils. |
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4 After transferring the rather loose pencils, I touch them up a bit. |
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My color scheme for this painting will be a dark background of mostly cool colors and lighter values for the wings and figure, with warmer colors on the figure itself. I start painting in the background colors, first. |
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