Today I will share with you how and why I made this painting with many pictures.
Here is the short version: Fantasy Painting- The Short Version
I made it a couple of years ago when I was learning full time how to draw. I did many photo studies and design exercises.
I had joined a tiny 100 days studies art group. We were less than 7 people in the group and we were all at different skills levels. The purpose was to motivate and inspire each other to keep drawing and learning new things.
This painting took me a week to complete and over 16 hours of just painting.
Day 1- Silhouettes
I began by collecting references for this project. I decided to pain a fantasy landscape inspired by Asian culture. I live in Europe and have never visited Asia. The Asian traditional architecture and landscapes look very magical to me.
When I collect reference I try to study it, to get a better understanding. After studying a few buildings as silhouettes I tried to make a few of my own and picked one to continue working on. Usually the first drawings are generic as it takes a few tries to get creative.
This step took me a bit more than 2 hours.
Day 2- Perspective
I figured out how to put the silhouettes into perspective. There are some mistakes, but I was satisfied with the progress. I also made a few thumbnails to imagine how the scene would look like. Thanks to Feng Zhu and his Youtube tutorials "Design Cinema" I learned faster how to do concepts and design. The tutorials are free and truly amazing.
Day 3- Values
This day was a bit less successful, but progress is progress. Just have to keep trying.
Day 4- Line Art
Here I spent 3:30h just on line work and details. And spent 30 mins deciding how the values of the painting would be.
Where is the light coming from?
Day 5- Photo Bashing
This is called "photo bashing"- using random, unrelated photographs to create a color theme. It is not recommended for beginners, but I had decided to try it out.
Final 3 results zoomed in
I spent nearly 2 hours on this. I really wanted to make a night scene as in the 3rd painting, but I felt like my skills were not strong enough. So I worked on the 1st scene.
Day 6- Big Details
I defined the color and composition, fixed some perspective issues. I spent 2:30 hours that day adding the big details.
Day 7- The Final Steps
I spent 6 more hours to finish this including some redo-s. Details take time and patience.
All The Steps
Thank you for reading!
Let me know if the post is too long or if you'd like to see more like this :D
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Wow, I wish I'd be as good as you at drawing such things :D
Looks great!
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Thank you!
This took an insane amount of effort - fantastic!
Thank you! Yes it did :D
Motivation is a big part.
That is so beautiful, really well done
Thank you! ^ ^
Wow amazing how much much effort you put in this work! But it was worth it course it's really beautiful :)
Thank you :D
Nice thorough post ! deserves more upvotes and money !! PS , i think its called photobashing , while photobombing would be when a random person butts his/her head into a photo someone else is taking of other subjects , hehe . ! cool art , maybe you can check mine out too . Following you !
Hahaha xD Thank you!
Yeah it's definitely photobashing not photobombing :D (updated)
Also followed you, you have some really amazing art :D
hehe , thanks for following & the comment !! looking forward to your future blog posts
Beautiful paintings in perspective , @kristyglas .
Thank you :D Still learning but it is mostly patience.
I love this painting and appreciate your sharing the process with us! What an incredible amount of work you put into creating a thing of true beauty, thank you!
Thank you! I love seeing other's process so I think it's fair to share mine as well.
That looks great! Truly magical colors and theme! I would love to see more of this :D
Thank you! Will try, it just takes a long time :D
Really cool! enjoyed watching the steps, and the finished product
Thank you :D
I usually post process even if just for one part.
These images are awesome! Wish I knew how draw like you @kristyglas
Thank you :D
You can try this tutorial I made: https://steemit.com/art/@kristyglas/drawing-tutorial-1-easy
I will try to do more simple ones in the future.
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