Work in progress
If I remember right, I sketched this out in a cafe overlooking the thames.
It’s a great spot but I haven’t been for a while, cos the coffee’s become quite shit.
Wish I knew more good coffee shops in central London… problem is they’ve got no incentive to make good coffee, cos there’s an endless supply of new customers.
Maybe I should approach art that way. Set up in tourist central, produce a load of old turds, buy some shit coffee, and sod off home.
Anyway, this was part drapery exploration, part experimentation with adding tonal rendering to my line sketches after many years, part peek-a-boob, and part ambivalent feelings about a transhuman future.
Seems like a good candidate to experiment with digital painting.
This isn’t one image, so I guess it has limited usage potential. It basically looks like concept art. But these three figures do feel connected, so I’ll paint them together almost as a scene.
I’d like to experiment with a muted atmospheric mood with a bunch of brushwork in certain areas that falls away to reveal the drawing structure and wash underneath, probably responding to light, angle, interest, and significance; and also to experiment with distribution of saturation.
An initial attempt to establish some rough tones and saturation bookends.
Currently going with the top light being slightly blue, which will likely mean some degree of warmth from below.
I find the borderline iridescent look of the clothes created by the extremes of saturation and brushwork presence interesting.
