MORE PAINTING

I worked on the banner folds. These are going to be even more detailed.....Just starting to add some more detail here.

Also started to add some of the first details to the face of the ROBOT MAN. The brain is going to have a light from the inside of it. I just began to add some of the brain texture. 

The back foot needed to be fixed, so I redrew it and moved it back a bit. Here you can still see the pencil lines from my first attempt. It is the foot in motion so it needs to have a bend in it.

I made the briefcase much larger and started working on the back curtain. Here you see some reference taped to the painting. This will help on the curtains once I get into working on it.

BLOCKING IN

After the drawing is on the surface with pencil, the time comes to block in the shapes with basic colors. In normal situations this takes some time but for a painting this large it takes forever. Lets look at some photos and see if I can shed light on my process.

Here I begin blocking in the sky or background color with a simple blue.

This is still a long way from being done....I am on the side of it looks worse before it looks better. This is a great example.

The top banner is painted yellow. This will include some words (which I hate painting!) like FUTURE MAN or MAN OF THE FURURE. I taped off the edge so I can have a nice straight line. 

The painting was taken off the wall with the help of my wife and put on the floor. I traced the other  side of the banner and used the tracing to duplicate the other side of the banner.

With all the basic shapes blocked in I started to work out the background color. This is a large area and will take quite a bit of paint to cover. I wanted this to be a somewhat stormy sky. The sky starts to get rendered and the background gets brushed into the shape of the robot. This is only temporary and will be fixed after the sky is 95% done. The fact this painting is 7 feet by 7 feet is what is taking so long. Big painting, big problems. The 2 other paintings are not very far in the process. I wanted to focus on this one and then when I get this up and running I will spend more time on the 2 others.