Finished about a week ago one new digital pin up painting called Stripes. I made a process pic collage, to give you an idea how the painting is done. Here’s just few steps from almost the beginning of the process to the almost finished painting.
Painting in five steps
As usual, in the beginning everything is still a mess and at that point, I really just have be confident, that after several more work hours, the painting will look good. The first 2-3 hours is quite exciting. During that time it comes clear whether it will work out or not. Usually I have a vision of the finished pic, and if I know I have enough skills to execute that, it is just a matter of working hours.
In this pic I had problems with the actual stripes, that were kinda hard to execute. Not sure how well they follow the actual curves and shape of the girl. I didn’t want to over try, so I just did the best I could do and settle for that.
The face was also hard as usual. I normally do the face last. You can see that in the first steps, the painting looks really unfinished, but the whole thing changes for the better after the girl gets some elements of the face.
Nowadays I use a lot of time on doing the finishing touches and detailing on the face. Previously I really sucked at this, but nowadays, it’s starting to go well. I like the expression although the color palette is sort of messed up in the face. Again, I didn’t want to try to fix it over and over again, which usually just ruins the whole thing. I just decided to avoid the same mistake next time.
And here's the finished painting
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