[Art] The Bronze Forest - colour WIP

[moonvoice]

nearly finished the watercolour pencils
thank goodness
because maybe you don't see it
but all I see is how freaking scrappy it is.
Can't wait to start laying into this with coloured pencil.


The Bronze Forest

Comments

[white_rabbit]

Whooaaaaaaa. *ogling forever*

[moonvoice]

Hee! It's behind me, and I'm pretending it's not saying things like 'Piaaaaa, finish meeeee.'

[white_rabbit]

The forest is calling you! ;)

[redsixwing]

*fansquee*

[moonvoice]

Yay!

[mdlbear]

Yay! Now I see why it's called the Bronze Forest. Amazing!

[moonvoice]

Yes! There will eventually be some bronze metallic paint in there too, but that will be added at the very end. :)

[skyfiery]

Whoa. *speechless* It's awesome.

[moonvoice]

Thank you. :)

[silverjackal]

Heh. I know you look at this and go "So much still to do!", but from my perspective it's "Oh, look at the beautiful rich colours!" :) You handle colour in a very unique and rich way generally, but speaking as someone who actually likes brown/bronze/grey tones, I'm always very intrigued by how you manage those in particular. (Case in point, your Portable Photovoltaic Systems piece. I loved the colour palate in that, and this promises to be even more remarkable!)

[moonvoice]

I do love brown monochromes a great deal, especially if they're sepia based. I'm also a fan of blue monochromes, and my first oil painting was a green monochromatic seascape. Heh. It's fun to actually work with a really limited colour palette. So far, I think there's only about 8 individual pencil colours in the whole thing. And of that 8, 4 are shades of brown, and then there's an indigo (for depth), cream, olive green and gray.

[silverjackal]

blue monochromes

This sounds *wonderful*. :)

It's always interesting to me how what looks like only a couple of colours actually involves much more to create, in terms of shading, high/low lights, etc.

[moonvoice]

My self-portrait was mostly blue monochrome, which I might put up again (in the house, as it's framed).

It's always interesting to me how what looks like only a couple of colours actually involves much more to create, in terms of shading, high/low lights, etc.

*nods* I probably use a couple more colours than strictly necessary for a monochrome piece (theoretically you just need white, the colour, and something to darken it with); but I like the depth and sense of light and shadow that comes with adding other colours. The indigo on the right hand side for example adds a really nice sense of depth - a black would flatten everything out, but indigo and brown work together like alchemical magic.

[ariestess]

Wow! This is so fricking gorgeous! *drools and stares in awe*

[ethaisa]

This is simply lovely. The more I stare at it the more I *want* to stare at it.

[goddess_incarnate]

this is amazing! :D

[azhure]

This is just amazing. I hope I'll get a chance to see it finished in real life soon? :)

[wendelah1]

Wow. That is such a striking image.

[suspended_steel]

I've been failing hard at commenting on things lately, but I love that you've been showing step-by-step progress on this illustration. The texture of your work in general is so fantastic, and I'm really enjoying seeing how you put those textures and layers together. I'm looking forward to seeing how the colored pencils come into this.

I can't see how supposedly-scrappy it is. I know I'm far more inclined to see everything I think is wrong with my own drawings after I've stared at them for far too long, though. Whee overexposure?