I've been working on this painting for sometime now.. Not everyday, just a little here and there. Everytime I tried to make an end rally to finish it, I never liked it, so I ended up repainting quite a few time.. And then it just became too much time spent. so I scanned it and did a paint over in photoshop..
I did this image to go into the Emerald City Con Monsters and Dames artbook.
I had to knock this one out pretty quickly.. I took about 5 hours to draw and paint the base color and another 5 hours to add some highlight and texture, and then I've been noodling at it on the computer for the past 2 days.
I put the last bit of paint on this two days ago.. This was a fun picture to paint, and it was on of those cases where at times it painted itself..
I ended up using a lot of opaque acrylics( gouache-y like approach) for the BG characters.. That was not my plan, but Igave the the very controlled tonal range I wanted there.
The Cylclops is mainly done with transparent washes, which is my usual modus-operendi with acrylics.
On the next piece I'd like to experiment with ptting some oils on top of the transparent acrylic wash.. We'll see how that turns out..
I'll be making prints of this in the next few weeks.
BTW, the web has a way of washing out the color.. To see a more accurate version of this drag the file to you desktop and view there..
This Poison Ivy was done fairly quickly as a last shot to get a new print ready for Heroes Con.. I liked how it come out.. but I can also see some areas that could be done better.
But in the end, I found a nice organic process when I did this one.. I'd like to do some more pics of other characters in this style..
BTW, I have prints left.. Drop me a line at my email if you're interested.
