Im back with a new painting and for this 2nd
entry of the Instagram #drawthisinyourstyle challenge, I chose a work by Erin Jaye .
The
challenge here was (you may have guessed) this “transparent/jelly/water—y body?!”
And because I adore (!!!) going the easiest way I wanted the body to have
realistic proportions and keep the transparency from the original concept.
Finding a transparent body wasn’t that simple ( as you can
expect) but as a rather crafty person and after several attempts I finally went
for a crystal resin mini sculpture as reference once I drew the figure of my
character.
This is a very special kind of creature, looking human when
she is out of the water but magically transforming as soon as she enters the
sea and that’s why I wanted it to be the focus of the illustration so I kept
the underwater natural elements a bit blur.
As I worked on a watercolor paper I was able to use a light
table to transfer my sketch on the final paper. Then I fixed the detailed
pencil drawing with spray and transparent gesso ( warning if you want to use
oil painting on such heavy and textures watercolor paper you need to use gesso
before to paint or the paper will absorb all the medium and oil)
I like to do a brown tones
underpainting (this time I used watercolor) before to use the oil
painting with light layers and keep this “old poster” tint.
Now how should we call this unusual kind of specimen?
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| Art of Gemini.H |
