So what I have for you today is the step by step process I used for my most recent commissioned painting. A friend of mine wanted a big action shot of Boba Fett looking awesome, so I did my best to achieve that... This painting is big, one of the biggest watercolor paintings I've ever done to be honest. I usually keep my paintings small and in odd sizes, just to make it fun for me come framing time... Anyways, its a 20 x 24 inches watercolor on Arches Rives BFK 140lb printmaking paper. I remembered (at least I think I remembered) that paper always held up well to heavy water saturation from my printmaking days and I felt like experimenting. I will let you all decide if you like it or not but I feel it actually turned out pretty nice. So here we go-
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| Initial quick sketch of the pose. I found an awesome reference photo on a stock site of a woman jumping back shooting guns. So I just adjusted the anatomy to a mans and made it Boba. Easy peasy. I wanted a shot of Boba hovering in the sky shooting out at the viewer. |
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| I taped up the paper to my masonite drawing board and finished the drawing on the easel so I could actually see what I was doing. |
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| Close up. This was drawn in 2h and hb lead pencils. |
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| I decided to make this a gun fight happening on Tatooine, with lasers all over and the Millenium Falcon and a Star Destroyer far above in the sky. So this image is the 1st application of paint. I soaked the paper and just steadily kept dabbing in the yellow/ brown colors the give an effect of a hot, dusty desert scene. |
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| So I skipped ahead a bit but I started to add in the colors for his armor and gauntlets. Obviously in some areas I even added in some of my shadows and details. |
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| More detail! Lasers and muzzle flashes added. The MF and Star Destroyer painted in using some atmospheric perspective to try and show that high above in the distance. |
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| The feet and the fire and smoke from Boba's rockets are added in. More detail! And it's finished... |
