After having watched all those portrait shows, having ordered a really good book of contemporary portraits ("500 Portraits; 25 Years of the BP Portrait Award")I wanted to try something with a lot more background to it, something more of a scene. As it turned out, I had managed to snap a photo of my partner while on a crowded T train when we were visiting Boston last year. His expression seems rather vulnerable and candid. It's both him and not him and I really wanted to paint it. So I spent a bunch of today working on the drawing. Just had time to start with the digital paint tonight. I think it's going to be black and white with only slight color but we'll see. Here's the WIP.
What? He is not green? No horns? This is closest I've got to seeing him out of role playing playing costumes!
ReplyDeleteI REALLY like this drawing and even the composition which much have been a nightmare on the T. It looks like something is going on. The people around him are really interesting as well.Gives you that crowded, trapped feeling a green line always has.