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| Cosmo 5" x 5" acrylic on canvas ©Xan Blackburn 2012 |
Done. Cosmo's portrait, and the Fall Portrait Marathon of 2011, both done.
Cosmo's portrait was based on a black and white photo, which has such power on its own that, given the option, I decided to stick with a monochromatic approach. I did try some coloring in Photoshop, but I couldn't get happy about spots of color. It seemed gimmicky or false. So here he is.
Back in my comic book coloring days (yes, it was a real job!), we often were called upon to create scenes that were monochromatic. For some reason, I found certain colors harder than others, but working on The Savage Dragon (this particular page lists me - Xan Micka at the time - as a colorist, but thinks I am a male. Hmf!), for instance, I learned a lot about greens, or working on Spawn, I learned about a lot of red. Ick. I think I'd take a different approach now, but my comic book days are loooong over. (That's a whole 'nuther story!)
What was I talking about? Oh yeah. Monochromatic painting. Well, enough said. I'll just let Cosmo do the talking.
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