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Painting Process Breakdown

Robert Hunt

This month I thought I would share a little painting process. This is a painting of Arctic Explorer Frank Worsley* that I did as preliminary work as part of a project I'm working on. I start by doing a very loose sketch to lay out the composition I do the same to rough in the position of the facial features I start adding some transitional passing values and modulate the colors in the drawing. most…

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Color Roughs

Jesper Ejsing

June 23, 2025 - Color roughs are something I put a lot of value in. Colors set the mood. They tell a story as much as the drawing does. To me, the color choice has never been easy or something I have taken lightly, but over the years I have developed different palettes that I like and that I tend to use more often. Take a look at the 4 different color rough I did for a dragon painting. Number one is a cloudy day, and number 3 is a sunny day. ( Looking at them now I wish I had gone with the cloudy day ) The number 2 and 4 are more evening/night but with an oversaturated color palette. I think it is 4 totally different paintings and it is only the colors that has changed. They…

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