Painting day setup
Added 2016-01-09 14:29:18 +0000 UTCDo you have "soundtracks" for things you do? I haven't listened to Ash in ages, and as soon as I started painting Star Wars again, that was my first go-to in iTunes. The album "1977" starts with the sound of a TIE fighter screeching past and ends with the song "Darkside Lightside". ^___^ I listened to that album all of the time in the mid-nineties.
Bottom right is my digital colour sketch for this piece. I'm so scared of that lightsabre in watercolours. O_o
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Funny; I have watched all of those (some twice) and couldn't tell what the soundtrack sounded like. My hubby always makes fun of my utter inability to recognise the soundtracks from my favourite films.
Jenny Dolfen
2016-01-30 13:08:35 +0000 UTCI do nearly everything with soundtracks, even work, when I'm alone in the office. Depends always on my mood what I'm listening to. One of my favourites is Enders Game and Cloud Atlas. LotR, of course, and... hell, yeah, lot of Hans Zimmer and game soundtracks. Right now I'm heavily into Wardruna and no, never watched Vikings. But it's time to read Bernard Cornwell again. :D
Brit Kreher
2016-01-30 13:01:39 +0000 UTCI actually come to the conclusion that lightsabres are easier than metal! =P Soundtracks are great! For Tolkien, I love listening to the Narnia, Braveheart, an Gladiator soundtracks as well as Lord of the Rings (whose music was fantastic, I think).
Jenny Dolfen
2016-01-09 20:26:55 +0000 UTCDefinitely! It has a less perfect nature that's great to do in watercolour. I just did a couple of tests and decided to do the white of it in gouache; that came out best. A regular, steady lightsabre will be a lot harder to do. I never tried to do one in watercolour so far. Most of my previous watercolour Star Wars art was pilots. :D
Jenny Dolfen
2016-01-09 20:25:40 +0000 UTCWhen I write (used to write), I would listen to Kitaro's Heaven and Earth and the soundtrack to Bram Stoker's Dracula. I think the lightsaber will come out perfectly. And you can always add some metal to it if needed and go with "artistic license".
Isabella C
2016-01-09 16:19:50 +0000 UTCWill the wonky, poorly constructed nature of Ren's lightsabre help with coloring the blade, perhaps?
Paul Leone
2016-01-09 15:55:54 +0000 UTC
