Friday, May 15, 2009

Achilles- In Progress

I thought it might be interesting to share the journey of a piece in progress. I've been working this piece, off and on, for over a year now. I think it will go through some interesting changes, geuss we'll find out.
Starting with a rough sketch, the idea of the piece is to show Achilles just after he has fallen from the arrows hit.
I refined the sketch abit....
Then added some color, at this point I left off on doing anything else for many months...
When returning to the piece I felt it needed some underlying shadow and some helmet work....
Wanting to make the helmet "bronzy", I overlayed a bit of green on the yellow...Then added some ruddish hues, going to leave it for now...
The red sky was bothering me, wanted something stormy and undefined, started with some yellow ( oh I added a little warmth to the cloak, but its not close to its final look yet)...
Added some white...Made some clouds, grabbed the palate knife and threw in a hint of far off mountains..then I went to bed...

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