SAINTLY || Portrait Commission

Hello, Extraterrestrial

I've tried hard to keep a consistent post schedule on here but can't seem to get a handle on that with commission work and training. This is one of those commissions. this is a piece I did for a good friend of mine, Lindi. now that it's I've got a semi-open schedule.

This is one of four commissions (with 3 still to be done in the future) and was a difficult piece to get done because I needed to get very close to the likeness, which is something I hadn't done in a long while in my art. I had to deploy my reference material in a very critical way looking at the "why and how" of the form in an almost classical sense.

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Sketch

As always, with commissions, I start with a couple of sketches to find the best idea. ended up having to merge sketches two and four together because the client really liked those two and to be honest I really liked those two, myself also.

In the future I think I might just do sketch number three because I really liked that composition. It's very simple, straightforward. I already did a mock up for it, but I haven't posted. I hope to get it done too and share with you all.

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The Process WIP

I went ahead with the two tone paint sketch so that I could get my values and forms right. Later on, I realized that I needed to get back into the black and white tone so that I could get better value definition. One thing that you'll notice when you're doing a two tone but with saturated hues is that you'll lose some understanding on which parts should be darker and which parts should be lighter.

After that it was a matter of using color adjustment layers for digital glazing on top of the black and white. This was only done after I had laid in some mid frequency details on the painting because I really need to make sure that I had all my forms well and ready before I could go into the high frequency details

after that, I just zoomed in and started going at sharpening every form and everything that that was still not define formally and I added a a green heart that is in the stylings of the Catholic heart, popular symbol in Catholic Christianity, and a cross which was an afterthought later on, I put a gold rose pattern on top of a blue tone (the b;ue tone important to constrast the overall warm tone in the rest of the painting.

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Thank you for taking that little time to let me share with you.

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Bye-bye!!!

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Art Commission Info

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Tools:

• Huion Pen Tablet (Inspiroy H430P)
• Asus Laptop
• Adobe PhotoShop
• Clip Studio Paint