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| Cosmo - work in progress #5 5" x 5" acrylic on canvas ©Xan Blackburn 2012 |
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| Cosmo - work in progress #6 5" x 5" acrylic on canvas ©Xan Blackburn 2012 |
I managed to resurrect one of my tinier brushes, which sure helped with the little hair details. I've been working on building up that fur texture, particularly on Cosmo's face, and also with continuing to develop the overall shape of him, his various roundnesses, and the soft layered shadows on his white chest and legs.
You'll notice in the second picture here (#6) that it seems I've lost some of the hair detail. I did! I was washing in some general tone, and it washed OFF some of my painstaking detail work. :P Oh well. That's when I broke out the glazing medium. Once that stuff dries, it does not come off.
You can see where that took me in #7 below.
I'm quite pleased at the progress at this point. Next phase, I'll work in some texture from the other direction: the lighter hairs and whiskers.
Way down at the very bottom is a detail showing how the texture is evolving. It will be fun to see it build up with the lighter hairs, too.
I'm liking the black and white so much, I'm thinking I'll be very restrained with adding any color. I'll start with the eyes, and see how I like it just like that, then go from there, or call it done.
Happy Monday, everyone!
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| Cosmo - work in progress #7 5" x 5" acrylic on canvas ©Xan Blackburn 2012 |
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| Cosmo - work in progress #7 DETAIL 5" x 5" acrylic on canvas ©Xan Blackburn 2012 |
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