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Spectre - Pencils, thumbs etc

Added 2024-03-04 03:58:49 +0000 UTC

Pencils for a new painting commission with a supernatural neo-noir vibe. As you can possibly tell I've been watching a lot of horror films lately so I was very keen to flex my horror muscles.

I saw Hereditary for the first time which unsurprisingly blew my mind. I was extremely interested in the colour palette and shot design (https://film-grab.com/2019/03/20/hereditary/) which consists mostly of greyish teal-green with red-orange focal points. Which happens to be the colour palette I use nearly constantly! I also tend towards a very dark range of values so the challenge here was finding a balance between deep shadow and definition of the character, which you can see in the thumbnails below:

I also used CSP's 3D mannequin to assist with the anatomy and lighting. I'll get a rough sketch of the pose down, position the model to match it, then make a tight sketch. After that I'll adjust the sketch more off my own judgement than copying the model directly bc it's always going to look a bit stiff and awkward.