Majestic Monster
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In this blog post I’ll be going over the most challenging part of my painting. I struggled a lot towards the end of this painting and I’m not gonna lie, it was extremely frustrating and disheartening.
The three main colors I wanted in this painting were blue, pink and purple. Now at the time, just three colors sounded great, but then I realised just how difficult that was going to make the whole process. I had to think alot about color placement and even when I thought I chose the best placements, it still went wrong. I made the sky blue with pink, purple and white highlights. The cloud underneath was pink and her mane and tail were purple. But now that I had all three colors surrounding the body, I had to figure out what color was going to work best. I eventually decided to go with blue as it was the color that had the least amount of contact with itself. So I got to work painting and when I was finally happy with it, I took a step back to see it a bit better. I was so frustrated because the blue on the body blended right into the background despite the shade and hue being different. I had to repaint the body about 4 times before I was satisfied with it. Even now I’d still like to change some things, but I need to make sure I stick to schedule and get all of my paintings done. If I have time when I’m done, I will go back through my paintings and try to touch up some stuff I may not be very happy with or just want to improve. As for my alicorn, I ended up adding some darker shades of blue as well as some hues of pink and purple to try and bring it forward from the background. But with that being said, I still think that from a distance, the body and sky clash with each other.
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My third painting has been by far the most difficult. I've been having a lot of doubts and am struggling a lot. This is my first painting of some sort of animal instead of my specialty human figure. I started painting the alicorn for this painting.
I wanted this painting to be very bright and fun, so I started painting the background with bright blues and softer pinks. When I picture a flying colorful unicorn I picture it up in some magical clouds so that's what I attempted. I started off doing really well with the sky by blending colors to make the sky have a more magical look to it. But when I started on the clouds underneath the alicorn, that's when that confidence started to fade. I tried to go for a cotton candy look and started with a pink base. I decided to make it swirly for depth and texture but wasn’t happy with how it turned out. I painted over it about three times and eventually settled on that pattern and shading I had. I finally started the base color to the alicorn. I struggled finding the right pattern so none of the colors blended into each other. Since the sky was mostly blue, I had to mix the blue to make a more teal color for the alicorn's body. I loved to color so much and the paint went on very evenly. I wanted to leave it like that but there was no shading at all. I worked on the main and tail using purple. The mane was much easier than the tail because the way the tail waved was much less exaggerated than the main. I ended up really liking how the colors worked together for the mane. I will continue to work on the body and make sure the background and body run smoothly together and don't go into each other. I started my second painting in my majestic monsters series. I painted a female Oni, even though they are mostly depicted as a male. I decided to do this one next as it was still within my comfort zone. This painting felt like it took forever with no progress up until the last 3 days when I finally started the main subject, the Oni herself.
I started on the background and mixed red, orange and yellow to get a fiery looking background. This was pretty easy and satisfying. The process only took me a class and a half before I started on the surrounding rocks. Once again the outline was pretty vague and the background was improvised as I went. When creating the outlines I just want a rough place to start. I wanted the Oni to look like she was standing in a cave with the world burning behind her. This part was a bit tedious when It came to the shading and trying to have a dark cave but add the highlights from the fire behind the rocks. I used watered down paint on the already dried black paint to add shadows and highlights to the rocks. After what seemed like weeks of working on the rocks, I finally started on the Oni herself. This made me want to tear my hair out. Not literally, but I did have a lot of difficulties with this part. To start, the red paint I started using for her skin was very watery and transparent. I was getting very frustrated as I had to wait for the paint to dry before I could put another layer on and it kept looking streaky. I eventually started painting her stalking's because it wouldn’t interfere with the skin. I seemed to have similar issues with this part. I wanted a metallic blue but the silver pint was very watery. I quickly decided to add more blue and it made it thicker. This seemed to fix the problem. I really loved the metallic look and decided to add more of it into her outfit. I finally had to go back to painting her skin and decided to look for different paint. I found a darker red that was much thicker and continued mixing different shades to get the shadows and highlights correct. Her clothes were so much fun to paint. I really enjoyed the colors I made and used. She was very dark and metallic with the exception of her hair which is a silvery white. Overall I liked the way I added my own artistic flavor to how most people see and Oni. This painting turned out quite well and I am so happy with the colors. The colors have given me some ideas about how I am going to paint my other creatures. I cannot wait to paint my phoenix and add gold paint. |
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