My graphite styraco was unacceptable for a variety of reasons...I redid the pose and while waiting to start afresh I did a quick pointillism head shot...one of the difficulties I have when doing something really large in graphite is the need to keep going back and adjust the values...and I'll often erase a few times trying to get a texture to look right...trying to strike the balance of too much detail vs. overworking...at some point it becomes overwhelming and I take 20 years longer than I want to. So the debate has been if I should do the large new styraco in pencil, which I think would look sharp but drive me insane at some point, or to do it in pointillism...at least with pointillism when you make a dot it is there...no going back...and adjustments can still be made but for some reason it seems to take less work...and is almost like therapy in a weird Chinese water torture sort of way...and it does tend to lend itself to dinos without worrying so much about the 'texturing' troubles pencil drives me to at certain points...If I had space I would just take up oil painting again and solve all the world's problems.
6 comments:
life is long, do both and go crazy :)I paint portraits of peoples homes and it takes a long time and often I will paint 1000's of leaves, etc. so I hear you!
The enigma of a "quick pointalism..." anything. It looks great.
What a dilema - I'm a Libran so find it hard to make any decisions! Either way it's a whole lot of work: what patience you must have, Brian.
All the pointalism patience has paid off, it looks fantastic! Great illustrations.
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Oh yes, the "overworking" situation seems to be a problem for me in many cases. Still, this work is nothing short of remarkable man! WOW!
Welcome to my world. The wonderful delights of forever playing with values. I think you could try doing a dino in graphite but a smaller size - so you don't go stir crazy.
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