Friday, July 10, 2009

Red Haired Dracula Painting: part 1

So a couple weeks ago I did a series of Monster drawings based off a 1970s toyline that I'm somewhat obsessed with. I did not have it outta my system yet. I have an art show next month at a local coffee house, so I figured I'd do a 24x36 painting of this dude in hopes that it would quench my mania.

It didn't.

But here's the painting in process....


First step as usual is to blow the original drawing up, print it out, tile together, rub graphite on the back and transfer to canvas.

here it is transferred, I've "inked" the lineart so to speak and am beginning to paint the underpainting and establish value scale.

Underpainting is roughed in and now after a trip to the art store I'm ready to start laying in some color.

More to come on this.

1 comments:

KW said...

This is really nice, sir! You'd make a killing if you set up with a stack of these at a horror convention.

I have the mego werewolf with the glowing eyes and hands. I've had him since I was 7 and he's been loved nearly to death. His shoes are gone.