Western Gunslinger Girl

[Boom]

hoi,

This is a painting I'm working on and off... mostly off! ;)

I've been literally not painting for a few months now because of different things happening in my rl, but slowly im getting the urge to paint back.

This is one of the small projects that I've attempted to paint. Fairly simple. Don't want to jump headfirst into something that I know I'll never finish...

Starting with skecth - It's very rough and based on a few photos found on the net. It's nothing serious or commercial, so I didn't found it nessecary to do the photos myself.

http://www.danbbs.dk/~pvillum/forums/gunslinger_01.jpg

next Image I've started the actual painting. All PS7 yet, but I'll soon move to painter to smoothen out the painting abit. At this point I'm still roughing out with rather large brushes. Got plenty of areas to work over yet. And the bg is still rather vague. I have no idea yet how the clouds will look in the end... So much fun... :)

http://www.danbbs.dk/~pvillum/forums/gunslinger_04.jpg

[R_M]

Peter good to have you back on active duty!

I think the hat is a bit to big, it takes much of my focus at least...

like the pose very much, it is clear and simple, and I am wondering bout the colours. will it be a BW pic, or are you going to colour it later. If so, why don't you colour it strait away? I have sean other people working in BW, up til the very last moment and then add colours very late, if there is an advantage what is it? the same goes for any disadvantages with this tecnique.

curious to see how you will render the gun.

[Boom]

Hi Roberto

This is indeed going to be in full color... eventually. ;)

Working strictly in b/w before applying colors can help you see the values better. I know that many other digital artists use this kind of approach fx. Jon Foster, Anders Finer and others.
But even some of the Classical Great artists used black and white underpainting in their traditional oil paintings. Just try and look up Veronese, Titian, Vermeer and others. Sure, some of them didnt use black a white but maybe rawumber or another single color with only darker or lighter values of the same color as underpainting. So, this approach isn't something that came with the digital age. It's far older than this.

disadvantages? Hmm, some might think it odly to paint the same painting litteraly twice and thus it might take abit longer to execute. But other than that I can't really see any disatvantges. I for sure like to paint this way, though I don't do it all the time.

[Boom]

...

managed to squeeze a half hour session in just before leaving work today.

I brought the painting into Painter7 (had been working in PS7 on the previous steps) and smoothed out various areas. This step might not seem to be much different from the previous, and that is true to a large degree.

Next session will be back into PS7 where I'll sharpen edges and get the remaining details figured out - the guns/hands and the head primarily...

http://www.danbbs.dk/~pvillum/forums/gunslinger_05.jpg

[stephen]

hey boom, i really dig what you've got going so far, here's a paintover that addresses some problems with her anatomy / hair size,

http://www.seriks.com/gunslinger_05paintover.jpg

mainly her left arm (our right) was too long, i shortend it and changed the position of it a tad, it looked alittle wierd when i shortened it and kept it attached to her torso. secondly the hair on her right (our left) looked really huge when i flipped it so i shaved off a tad. last thing i lowered the right breast a tad, and threw in a hole on her right arm (our left)(why do i keep saying that?hehe) to show off more of the silhoutte of her arm.

hope that helps alittle

[Boom]

Hey Stephen

Thanks for the paintover... I think you point out some issues that could bother me later on.. so thanks for giving me an early warning ;)

It think that while the hairsize might be too big as it's is now it does has some sort of motion to it. blowing in the air, if you will... But I'll keep your paintover in mind next time I sit down and give her a hairtreatment. ;)

About the arms... Yeah, well... they do seem a tad too long. I'll shorten them abit. Thanks dude! :)
And I'll surely follow your advise about putting in some air between the hip and her right arm.


again.. thanks abunch! :chug:

[Johannes]

Getting better and better :D
im a bit concerned ovver her left elbow - sems too long and pointy.
Also I wanna see more work on the hands and da guns! (I recommend buying toyguns (Im swedish...) and holding those up - but U as a US fella probably have the whole house full O´those real-deal .44 peacemakers!!!)

[Boom]

:D

that was a funny post... especially since I live in Demark! ;)

I have worked some more on the painting adressing some of the problems already stated by Stephen and R_M. I'll post the update soon... I can't now, since the painting is saved on the computer at work. Maybe I'll work on it some more before posting... Seeing images of litterally insignifcant corrections and noodeling is probably just a wast of bandwidth... An update is coming shortly though... I promise! :)

[behemot5]

some anatomy mistakes but light, tones and textures are very good......

[Boom]

Sry, for bringing this old geezer back from the dead - But this has been my first day of painting for God knows how long... Feels good to be painting again... And that's really encouraging for one thats been with a block for far too long...

last update before coloring start. Not that there won't be changes to the actual drawin'... but.. yeah.. anyways....

fire away... :)


http://www.danbbs.dk/~pvillum/forums/gunslinger_14.jpg

[nofingers]

glad that you brought it back.....it looks amazing...can't wait to see when its finished