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 A small snippet of a princess illustration...

SteamPunk Mechanical Robin Factory - WIP digital painting

SteamPunk Mechanical Robin Factory - WIP digital painting

SteamPunk Mechanical Robin Factory - WIP digital painting

This composite picture shows a number of stages in the creation of this digital painting, featuring a giant robotic Steampunk Robin, under-going maintenance in a factory.
The first panel shows the initial drawing using the 'Auto Sketchbook pro' app. Each object is  drawn on separate levels, often roughly at first, and then cleaned up on another separate level. After a suitable drawing had been created and the layout worked 'as a whole', it was then exported from the tablet (as a layered PSD) and opened in photoshop on a PC to enlarge it to the correct proportions for the final illustration, and then saved. After this stage the drawing is now ready for painting, and is opened up in the desktop version of 'Auto Sketchbook pro' on a W10 machine. From now on the artwork is painted using a number of brushes, using the drawing overlayed, as a reference. Again each element is painted on layers. Once the painting was complete some final regrading was done using Photoshop.
The finished painting can be seen here.

Single chicken walking around on grass

Single chicken walking around on grass

This painting of a single chicken walking on grass, was painted at the end of 2012. It is painted in oils,on a red acrylic ground, in one six hour sitting. The size of the image is 10” x 8” and is created on a canvas board.
I took a number of photos of chickens during the previous summer, with the aim of creating a fresh painting of the bird. I added more grass in to the background to make the chicken stand out better and give the painting a more organic look, rather than the concrete surface it was walking on in reality.

Single chicken walking around on grass

Princess releasing bird

Princess releasing Bird

This was painted in photoshop around early February 2010, but I was never that happy with it. I left it a few weeks and added flowers and more tonal work to help bring it out a bit more, as I felt is was too flat, despite the prospective. It does look better now. Ironically I was expecting the figure (in perspective) to be the most difficult element here but it was not after all.

from the website...
This illustration depicts a princess releasing a white dove to freedom in the grounds of her home. The angle is looking down at the action to show the release of the bird, leaving the girl behind on the ground.

Painted in 2011.