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E.M.GIST
February 20th, 2006, 04:38 PM
Here is a demo from one of my classes that I turned into a tutorial. It is a very controlled way of painting in oils that is meant to break everything down into a step so as to simplify the process.
http://www.erikgist.com/images/forum/Page1p.jpg
http://www.erikgist.com/images/forum/Page2p.jpg
http://www.erikgist.com/images/forum/Page3p.jpg
http://www.erikgist.com/images/forum/Page4p.jpg
http://www.erikgist.com/images/forum/Page5p.jpg
http://www.erikgist.com/images/forum/Page6p.jpg
Main Loop
February 20th, 2006, 04:49 PM
some of the cheek structure feels a bit off in the final, i think the angle of the shadow that separates the left cheek from the eye socket is too horizontal.. that threw off the entire eye structure, making him look a little cross-eyed.. good info, it was a nice read
Idiot Apathy
February 20th, 2006, 05:48 PM
Thanks very much!
thebluepuppy
February 20th, 2006, 07:17 PM
very nice demo. wish i was thier to see the real thing.
Dizon
February 20th, 2006, 09:22 PM
YES! This is great! I just started oil painting using monocromatic values, so this tutorial will prove to be very helpful.
Pixeldragoon
February 20th, 2006, 11:04 PM
Incredible- THank you! I will try to apply this to acryllics as well!
|NTeRN
February 21st, 2006, 04:39 AM
man im loving this class right now. even tho im a complete noob to painting. anyways to clarify a bit for Erik, the painting was done from life, not from the photo. the burnt umber pick out was done 1 week (same day the picture of the model was shot) and the actually painting with color was done another week.
-j-
February 21st, 2006, 08:23 PM
sweet. i saved it. thanks!!
talmir
February 27th, 2006, 05:58 PM
You sir, need to publish a large and expensive book..
DSillustration
February 27th, 2006, 06:47 PM
great!
im going to make my students check this out first thing tomorrow.

nicely done, erik! ;)
E.M.GIST
February 27th, 2006, 08:58 PM
Main Loop-Thanks for the crit, I wasn't terribly happy with the painting myself, but it served its purpose.

Idiot Apathy-your welcome

thebluepuppy-You would be more than welcome

patdzon- good luck

Pixeldragoon- the cool thing about acrylics, and I suppose you could do it with oils as well, is you can just glaze the color on. It would be similar to what Alex Ross does with gouache

|NTeRN- Thanks Mat

-j- cool!

talmir- Giving thought to a figure drawing book actually, though it will be a while


DSillustration- Thanks Dan, let me know how it goes.