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PROCESS // pink fish, part 3
🕑 Added 2021-03-09 08:20:19 +0000 UTCHere is the final part of the process for my veiltail painting! Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.
This is the part where I just smooth things out and add the final pass of detail. I sped it up to 3x the original speed, so in real life I took about 3 and a half hours to do this part. I always feel like this is the phase where the least happens: from a distance, it barely changes. But up close, I’m trying to smooth out the rougher details and get the image to feel like a finished work. In this case, I’m trying to blend in edges with the brush without losing the angular aspect of the rendering style.
This is the part of my process where reference is really important, because it helps me to understand those smaller details which are needed to bring certain elements to life. By looking for reference for the fish, I realized that adding some lighter scales to the bottom would give texture and variation to the painting. And when looking up reference for the bubbles, I found out how I could have them reflect the light in the image in interesting ways, and try out shapes other than just round or oval. So I usually grab some extra reference photos during the rendering process to get those details just right.
Hope you like it and as always, feel free to ask any questions!
Comments
Loish
thanks fedde! i do have to be honest and say that i sometimes do give up, but for this one i really felt there was potential! at some point it needs to 'click'!
Fedde
If there is something I have learned from watching this 3 part series on Pink Fish, it's that I need to learn to be FAR more patient when I attempt to paint. Just amazing to see you give up your initial idea in part 1 and completely start over with the hair. I think I identified at least 25 points in your whole process where I would just have given up, feeling that things (for me) would simply not come together. But you kept on "fighting" and giving your ideas a chance and there at the end when you started with the rendering, it all just came together. I need to learn to not abandone my experiments as easy as I do today! You are an amazing talent!
Tina Kavčič
thanks for answering my question, it does help :)
Loish
i definitely think that sometimes! I like to change stuff as I go, which you can see in this process bc the painting was looking totally different when I started on it. but sometimes you just reach a point where it's too late and you just gotta finish it and start on something new. i have that with a lot of my paintings! but i try not to dwell on it too much and just keep moving forward. sometimes you make the piece that comes together well, and sometimes you don't.. it's all part of the ups and downs of being an artist :) (hope this helps in some way!)
Tina Kavčič
Watching this I realised I really fear the first stages of conceptualizing an image, because you have to make some decisions that later on you wish you'd do differently. And sometimes I feel like I have to see the end result in order to know if I want to change something, but obviously then its too late. Is commiting to decisions in early stage just intuitive for you or is it a skill that gets better with practice? Do you sometimes wish you have done things differently?
Nehal Yasser
THANK YOU SO MUUUUUUUUUCH 😍😍😍
Loish
glad you like it! as for your question, it's a tough one. I try to use my intuition as much as possible - just zooming out and re-assessing the image from time to time to check if it feels finished, and see what it's missing. Usually when I look at it, I see some areas that bother me and I continually work on those until the overall image feels done. For me it's usually a challenge to stop rendering, so that I don't lose all of the energy and life of the drawing. Setting timers helps me with that!
Loish
haha i had the same when i looked at it again, her face has all these in-between phases that look off! i will try to delve more deeply into adidng depth / dimension in a face in the future!
Lauren Nicole
I think finalizing is my favorite part! The first stages make me nervous because it feels like problem solving lol. I would love a talk through on how you add dimension and depth to the parts of the painting that matters the most!
Rayan A
This is amazing Loish!, what is your secret to not losing patience or motivation in the rendering process? I always start feeling motivated to paint something but easily lose patience when it comes to the rendering stages, do you have any advice on how to keep going until you finish a piece?also, how do you know which parts to add on to and what to do to finalise the painting?
