tribute by bonnie
original painting from january 2004
original rough scribble (note complete lack of artistic ability, haha!)
the inspiration - our cat “rocket”s neuter op (out of focus)
another inspiration / reference photo - (same photo also more directly copied previously for this)
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this is rad. i really like these tribute and reference posts where we learn where a painting came from and see what someone has done with the image too. very cool!
I never forget the same demonstration you had make in the forum , excellent
konomi’s komment:
bonnie needs to have whiskers coming out of her piercings
napalm - You mean this one?
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/8154/stepsxy5.jpg
she also needs a black leather/latex/pvc bra thingy…
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whiskers would be amazing! im sure i could construct something with ptfe….thats deffinitly something to think about
excellent work!
as i *almost* know you in real life i cannot join in with the “more skin” comments…
however, in the best possible taste - the knickers could do with being tugged down a notch.
who on earth are you!!!
personly i think more skin is a bit irrelevent as was trying to go more with the neutered kitty aspect ^^
haha, cool rough sketch, it reminds me of a perverted school notebook doodle
oh i love it! i want to make one for you too! this is my favorite of yours. i have always wanted one of those scars right there (u_u )
01 - first scribble - usually buried amidst a page of scribbles and not nearly as fully realised as this - but this time i already had the idea worked out in my head before picking up a pencil, so no painful forced extraction of an idea (as is more typical)
02 - ‘the idea’ is drawn up - as you can see, i can’t draw - look at the size of her head, haha!
03 - traced over and anatomically refined a bit by cross-referencing my own idea of what a female body looks like with actual photos of what female bodies really look like (yay, here i justify my purchase of dirty magazines) - at this stage, now i know what i’m going to do, i reckon i deserve the rest of the day off
04 - drawing scanned - corrections made on computer - minor in this case but often my first drawings are badly askew, which i don’t notice until they are on a computer monitor - enlarged to canvas size (45×53cm) and printed out (in several segments)
05 - transferred to canvas board - blocks of flat colour painted in to cover the white canvas as quickly as possible (i think ALL artists have a pschopathological hatred of blank sheets of paper and empty canvases? - and arrogantly believe the designs they feel obligated to destroy these pure areas with are infinitely superior) - note: the traditionally ‘correct’ way is to do a tonal underpainting in sepia - but each to his or her own - end of day two
06 - day three - i use quick-drying oil paint, i’m impatient - dark and light tones added to the blocks of colour - background was distractingly bright so a greyed down layer painted over the top (tho in the end i went back to a brighter green) - pink ears become black - my finished paintings usually have at least three layers of paint over the entire surface
07 - day four - i always start working on the face in more detail - if the face unsatisfactory the painting may as well be abandoned - but oil is far better than airbrush for making invisible cosmetic corrections - more colour value judgements - flesh tone made more realistic, stronger shadows added - i like to keep colours as clean as possible (again just my own preference)
08 - day five - i’m still fussing with her face and hair - the shadow on the flat background (trevor brown clich) gives a greater sense of three-dimensionality
09 - day six onward - white pen used for the grid background - another layer of paint over all areas - from here on it’s endless tedious refining - takes longer and longer to do less and less (ie making any real significant visual difference) - until eventually you decide to declare it….
10 …..finished! [go back to step one - do not pass go - do not collect $200]