Oddly Unadventurous

I seem to have an aversion to the ‘landscape’ type of painting. Not that I fancy discreet objects (e.g. human faces in portraiture) any more than I do natural scenes. I just have a problem with bigger to smaller forms. It sure feels more comforting to start from a small detail and work out in a spiraling motion but in a landscape study this approach will end you up with a larger/smaller image inside your canvas more often than not. Plus, comfort is for pussies. So sure I had to actually underlay the original screengrab of the Dishonored trailer and pick colours from it aaaand block in the shapes like babby’s first coloring book. But when you’re afraid to ride the bike you gotta get learning wheels.

And guess what? In the end it doesn’t even look like the original screenshot! But, more importantly, it still manages to pull a semblance of character. Smudgy and innacurate to be sure, but character! Genuine character!

Compare this to my earlier attempt at painting the vehicle:

Plenty of accuracy for sure but, to boot, it’s not consistent with the rest of the picture (cause I haven’t painted it yet, duh!) so would you imagine what a pain it’d be to spiral out of it with consistent level of detail and consistent color picks? By the end it’d surely look flat and confused. Oh and not to mention - the car was awfully huge compared to the original in the first place. What if I wasn’t working in digital? What if there is no “resize” in real life? There isn’t! Bollocks!

So then? Paint like shit, but at least paint with the right principle in mind. In the end it makes life eazyer, yo.

Posted on Sunday 27 May with 8 notes.

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