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Painting Oz, Cont’d
Visuals create stories. This is my mindset when developing a painting. Not just for images, but for writing as well. Story, character, plot, background history, emotions, world building…all of it works together when generating new images. This approach works well when dreaming up paintings for classic stories, too, like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I’ll describe what was going through my mind for each of the images below. To continue from where we left off,…
YESTERDAY’S POST
“The Banshee” Drawing Process Video
July 9, 2024 - [embed]https://youtu.be/GWV325dO-a4[/embed] Today, I have a livestream I did for drawing 'The Banshee" for FANSTRATICS as well as some conceptual work! As with most of these characters for this series, it begins with several sketch idea for poses and designs, scribbled in ink in my sketchbook. The notes I was from the art director asked for options for both a normal-looking figure in the middle of a harrowing scream, along with exploring of the idea of the screaming head being detached. I tried several options for trying to visually simulate the screaming effect, concentric lines, swirling chains, and garments being whipped around. I tried to move the poses around a lot as I did this, as it is easy to get locked into just one pose when making these little sketches. I initially drew them as…
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