Well another work in progress shot of my latest painting.
Today I’ve been working on the knight to the right of the king. From now on I shall
call him Neville (for no particular reason, he just looks like a Neville) He’s
come out quite well I think. I’ve tried to keep him a little darker and less
detailed than the king so that he stays in the background and I think that’s
worked. I’ve also put some more detail into the background, this won’t be the
finished detail bit it helps me to see where I’m going and how things relate to
each other.
Next I will be working on the knight and the flag barer to
the left, then I’ll be going back to working on the king who still needs a lot
of work.
One of the things that I love about digital painting is
keeping progress shots. Before I write up any WIP entry for my blog I call up
all my progress shots and pan through them start to finish. I do this a few
times just so I can see how far I’ve come. Sometimes when I look back over the
WIP shots I find elements that I’ve removed or changed that I realise I should
put back in, or I get new ideas for tweaks. Other times like today I see what
the element I’ve been working on looked like before I started the session and
then what it looks like after the session and I think to myself “did I draw
that?!”… That’s a good feeling.
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