CGAN April 2021 - New Master - WIPs

seems I made her arm see-through... Still not looking very much like the artist I'm going for but I'll worry about that when I have the lines down, I guess... For now I have a purring cat on the tablet so no more artsy fartsy for me... (And no that's not an accurate depiction of the gun Banj posted, visible or invisible parts... but I am using it for reference.)

I like where you're going with the face and hair. And those curls are starting to look a bit Art Nouveau.

Did a bit more on mine today...

Was hoping to be further along, but I'm still struggling with the weapon design (I don't want to just copy all of it!) and I think I mentioned I botched one attempt at a background. I have another idea but I haven't tried it yet so I don't know if it'll work. I hadn't planned on using the ink pen to fill in flat "colours" (greys) either but realised that shading everything with the pen tool was both going to take forever and be a bit too "textured". I do want a bit of pen texture in my attempt to mimic a certain artist (and the style isn't supposed to be art nouveau by the way ) but I have a sneaky feeling I won't be able to get the right balance. I'm probably going to have to rely on the background and eventual colour to make it look at least somewhat like the work of a certain (other) artist.... Though the colouring I find typical of this artist was apparently just the result of finances....

bla bla bla, now where's that wip?

Approximately where I had hoped to be by the end of yesterday...



I need to look at more refs for the shading on that overall... and her hands, especially her right one.

EDIT: and here we go again, double posting - and apparently when I deleted the double post I also deleted the attached file, so I had to reattached that to the not deleted post.

(and then I had to remove an extra emoji that also double posted *sigh*)

Looking very nice.

Can't wait to see that colour.

Still no colour and honestly plenty of things that need more work, and that's not even mentioning trying to make it look like it was painted by someone other than myself :p But, if I have only a few minutes for this tomorrow I hope I can at least slap on a colour layer and make it look almost finished... maybe...

wip 5


(Dang why must the snipping tool capture the mouse pointer?)

After a bit of research and the helpful clue of your title I declare that you have copied the style and colour of the fairy tale art of John Bauer.

Maybe.

Reading the image name is cheating

But yes... which is why I couldn't do anything "fantasy-ish" as he was already famous for princesses and trolls and such. (I realised that after I had already decided to go with him as "my master"... so had to go with something more sci-fi-ish for the portrait... or horror maybe, in this case. Though Ripley herself isn't quite as scary as the alien)

Edit: Come to think of it maybe a trollish Gandalf would have been easier to make in Bauer's style?

Seeing as I've never encountered his work before I would never have guessed without the clue.
In my searches I got through a few artists called Bauer before I got to him but as soon as I saw some of his paintings I thought "THAT looks like Charlotte's pic!" So you've definitely captured something of his style.