Ah, Er... Hello.
It's been a while and I've been hilariously busy. So I haven't been letting anyone really know what I've been up to beyond the really big show, happening Tuesday the 18th of November. (Hear that? Mark your calendars in triplicate.)
Barron's class has been going smashingly. I have a little thing to show you about the Winchester Mystery House.
I was a little disappointed in the way this came out. So was Barron, though he said all it really needed was to be done at double the size and reduced down. I see problems with the ghost cowboy not looking ghostly. I'll redo it and probably do another one that I had thumb-nailed but no time for.
And here's a little process called "What Lydia does when she's crunched for time and is scared of fucking up."
In short, it's where I scan the piece at every interval as I build it up.
First step on one layer of mylar:
Mylar is a really cool substance. It's a thin plastic which can have a texture applied. The sheet I used has a very soft texture that takes to colored pencil like it's just natural. I acrylic the back of the image and it shows through behind the pencil.
Unfortunately, no erasing. Which means I had to sketch the image on a piece of paper, put the mylar over it, and trace it up so I wouldn't have a catastrophe.
Anyway, here's the top layer:
The addition of the Native American woman was a difficult choice to make. I wanted her to appear very ghostly and etherial, and yet not be cheesy or expected, and not have a "token" quality of being exploitive. I ended up making her face pretty solid.
Here's the rifle layer underneath her layer, with a little more work done on the dreamcatcher:
Here's the finished image, with a layer of mylar thrown behind the two front pieces:
I had to have the house in there somehow. Unfortunately, I didn't quite know the extent of my ire for drawing houses... they're harder than people! I brightened up the color scheme because apparently the modern house has been repainted in more drab coloring.
Barron's class has been going smashingly. I have a little thing to show you about the Winchester Mystery House.
I was a little disappointed in the way this came out. So was Barron, though he said all it really needed was to be done at double the size and reduced down. I see problems with the ghost cowboy not looking ghostly. I'll redo it and probably do another one that I had thumb-nailed but no time for.
And here's a little process called "What Lydia does when she's crunched for time and is scared of fucking up."
In short, it's where I scan the piece at every interval as I build it up.
First step on one layer of mylar:
Mylar is a really cool substance. It's a thin plastic which can have a texture applied. The sheet I used has a very soft texture that takes to colored pencil like it's just natural. I acrylic the back of the image and it shows through behind the pencil.
Unfortunately, no erasing. Which means I had to sketch the image on a piece of paper, put the mylar over it, and trace it up so I wouldn't have a catastrophe.
Anyway, here's the top layer:
The addition of the Native American woman was a difficult choice to make. I wanted her to appear very ghostly and etherial, and yet not be cheesy or expected, and not have a "token" quality of being exploitive. I ended up making her face pretty solid.
Here's the rifle layer underneath her layer, with a little more work done on the dreamcatcher:
Here's the finished image, with a layer of mylar thrown behind the two front pieces:
I had to have the house in there somehow. Unfortunately, I didn't quite know the extent of my ire for drawing houses... they're harder than people! I brightened up the color scheme because apparently the modern house has been repainted in more drab coloring.