Uber Grotesque
12 x 9
Acrylic and pencil on board
© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games
I worked on this at the end of January 2014 and it was one of several "baby steps" as I moved towards transitioning from working digitally to traditionally. Little did I know when painting this that within six months I would be working completely traditionally.
As with all my work I start with thumbnails. I took some very silly selfies for reference and got started on a few concepts for how I envisioned this piece. Here are the thumbnails that made the cut...
Uber Grotesque - Tumbnails
Option "A" was the winner, but production did have some notes to tweak it. Some additional mass needed to be added and the larger curved back was incorporated. I updated the thumbnail and sent it back to production for approval...
Uber Grotesque - Updated tumbnails
This updated thumbnail was given the green light and I ready to work up the drawing. At this time I still had not made the decision to work on all my drawings at 100% the size of the final painting and simply worked on my usual sized paper. Here is how the final drawing turned out...
Uber Grotesque
Warhammer Conquest
12 x 9
Pencil on paper
Original for sale over on my web store!
© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games
© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games
The painting went fairly smoothly. I was still very much trying to learn how to use the paint and how best to build up a painting. Not that I am still not constantly learning from each painting I work on, a year ago I was very much still fumbling and bumbling through a painting. My success seemed to be more of sheer luck then any efforts of mine. I have produced many paintings since this one and already looking back at this it feels very chaotic.
I took many process images of this piece coming together. Some of these images were actually even clear enough to share! Here is an animated process gif of the painting together. Many of the individual images were not good enough to stand on their own so I decided to just jump to the animated thingy and not share the individual images.
Uber Grotesque - Animated process thingy
As mentioned when I first shared this piece in November, after the painting was completed I was asked to rotate the entire image to the right. This this was a traditionally painted piece I made the edits on the computer. With my years of experience painting digitally, this was an extremely quick fix. Here is how the final used version of the Uber Grotesque turned out...
Uber Grotesque
Digital alter of final painting
© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games
Uber Grotesque in handy dandy card form (RAWR)
That is all for another exciting week on the blog, see you back here on Monday! Until then...
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