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The Entourage - Process

Added 2022-07-30 15:54:09 +0000 UTC

Well, who would've thought that a crowd scene with quite so many people and costumes in it would've taken this long? (Thanks for your patience, guys)

A fun exercise in replicating an image from my head - learned a lot about perspective and how to pack figures into a scene to create the sense of a crowd, and discovered how many feet I had to draw to fill out the scene from this angle.

I chose to work pretty much entirely in greyscale as you can see on this piece, only dropping in flesh tones and coloured/transparent latex where I felt was right. In addition, I chose to paint the entire scene in focus from the back wall to the foreground.

This meant I could concentrate on just rendering everything tonally and not have to also worry about coloured lighting and depth-of-field until the final, fun hour of the painting.

With everything rendered as you see in the final image I then went in and added in blurs to the background and decreasingly throughout the crowd to give the impression of focus.

And after that came layering in the lighting - again a process I achieved in layers so I could put the most saturated, theatrical lighting in the distance and desaturate closer to the foreground.

I think I might revisit other locations in my imaginary nightclub in future, but perhaps find more out-of-the-way spaces and intimate scenes within it.

But next - something entirely different and with far fewer characters.

Thanks everyone for your patience on this one - it's been fun, but quite a marathon!