Rebec - The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia

Today's piece of spot art is a rebec. This relates to the Eau-de-nil Elder section of the book. You can read more about this section of the book on The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia blog.

Rebec

8 x 10 - Pencil and acrylic paint on paper
Currently Available Grand Bazaar Originals
© 2019 Christopher Burdett

Here are all of the monsters appearing in the first volume of The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia: Aberrant Stilter, Belled Kreep, Corrupted Knight, Dight-Kin, Eau-de-nil Elder, Ethra VanDalia, Footman, Gray Wanderer, Gullet, Humgruffin Mother, Irritated Girasol, Judicator, Kiplorbic Animal Dealer, Lammergeier Transport, Myopic Riflemen, Nimsbane Curse Victim, Ophiomornous Bureaucrat, Petrous Blacksmith, Quincaillerie, Rapacious Guttersnipe, Saint Marque, Smokestack, Thrice, Uncanny Scribe, Virulent Artificer, Woven Egg, Woven Shaper, Xandrell Tree, Yote Arms Dealer, and Zombic Spore.

Here are all of the environmental pieces appearing in the first volume of The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia: Air Shops, Busy Streets, Hollow Alley, Keeper of the Clocks, Sunken Stalls, The Grand Bazaar, The Seated Dead, 

That is all for another exciting Monday on the blog. See you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Eau-de-nil Elder - The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia - Final Drawing and Render Time Lapse

Today I have the finished Eau-de-nil Elder. I previously shared the line work and time-lapse for this piece here on the blog. There has been a couple of months gap during the creation of this piece, but I am happy to say that it is now finished. As with the line work, I recorded myself doing all of the rendering and made a time-lapse of it. Before I get ahead of myself, here is the completed Eau-de-nil Elder.

Eau-de-nil Elder 
11 x 14 - Pencil on paper

Currently Available Grand Bazaar Originals

© 2016 Christopher Burdett

It took me 3.5 hours, spread over three separate sessions to complete the rendering of this piece. I condensed that time down to 25 minutes for the time-lapse. I know that is a bit to watch, but if it were any faster, you wouldn't be able to see what I was doing. If you are interested in how I work and draw, this is an excellent opportunity to see just that.

Eau-de-nil Elder render time lapse

View above or on YouTube for the high res version.

© 2016 Christopher Burdett

If you are doing the math, that was 3.5 hours to render, it was about an hour to do the line work, to do the original digital sketch it was about an hour, and the photo reference shoot took about 15 minutes. Sometimes these pieces go quicker, sometimes they take longer. It all depends on the drawing, the number of distractions, and the amount of time I can spend on the piece uninterrupted.

Here are all the other completed monsters for The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia: Aberrant Stilter, Belled Kreep, Corrupted Knight, Dight-Kin, Eau-de-nil Elder, Ethra VanDalia, Footman, Gray Wanderer, Gullet, Humgruffin Mother, Irritated Girasol, Judicator, Kiplorbic Animal Dealer, Lammergeier Transport, Myopic Riflemen, Nimsbane Curse Victim, Ophiomornous Bureaucrat, Petrous Blacksmith, Quincaillerie, Saint Marque, Smokestack, Thrice, Uncanny Scribe, Virulent Artificer, Xandrell Tree, Yote Arms Dealer, and Zombic Spore.

That's all for another exciting Monday on the blog. See you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Eau-de-nil Elder Line Drawing Time Lapse

In an attempt to do a better job of documenting and recording my process and steps I have been trying out a new camera set up to record myself working. Ultimately, I would like to be able to offer time lapse of some of my work as well as record while I am working to explain what I am doing better. The first test of the new set up was a little rocky. I had originally thought the entire recording was corrupted,  it turned out a large piece of it was salvageable. This time lapse does not include the entire drawing process, it does record most of the line work going down on the Eau-de-nil Elder.

Eau-de-nil Elder line work time lapse

View above or on YouTube for the high res version.

© 2016 Christopher Burdett

Details about this drawing and my drawing process:

• I am using tan BFK Rives paper and black (and eventually white) Prismacolor colored pencils.
• I created the thumbnail sketch for digitally and printed the thumbnail onto the paper at 20% opacity.
• I create a digital thumbnail for most of my planned drawings for both myself and clients. This allows for a much faster product and for a cleaner final drawing. I can revise and work out ideas so much quicker and easier when working up my initial sketches digitally.
• I still continue to draw without using this digital thumbnail method, but this is usually when I am relaxing or drawing without a set goal of a finished drawing. 
• I generally always start at the top and work down the drawing.
• I will continually revisit what I have already finished working on to add detail and edit parts that might not be working fully. 
• You will notice that I spin the pencil around in my hand while drawing (watch the markings on the pencil to see the spin). This is to get more life out of the tip while I am drawing. By spinning it I control the marks the pencil is making.
• When my hand disappears I am sharpening my pencil in an electric pencil sharpener.
• When my hand pauses on the drawing I am thinking about the piece.
• While the thumbnail is already worked out I often change it if I think the piece would be better suited to go in a different direction.

Eau-de-nil Elder line work

11 x 14 - Pencil on paper

Work in process

© 2016 Christopher Burdett

Now that I have the completed line work drawing done I have scanned it and will now proceed with the rendering of the entire image with black and white pencil to build up the values and complete the drawing. This will easily take two to three times the time it took to work up the line drawing. I will do my best to document the entire rendering process.

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog, see you back here on Friday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com