HOME | DD
badass-artist ā RHEA
by-nc-nd
Published: 2010-11-02 02:30:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 9519; Favourites: 176; Downloads: 8
Redirect to original
Description
TO ORDER PRINT:Ā www.gregandrewsart.com/Image_Pā¦This is a Frank Frazetta tribute done in my own style.
Related content
Comments: 43
Hi Greg,
Another stunningly beautiful artwork from you very awesome portfolio. Thank you so much for sharing your Muse, skills, passion and artwork with us.
Kindly,
Grant
š: 0 ā©: 1
You Bet, and thank you for the Support!!!!!
š: 0 ā©: 0
Thank You!!!!
š: 0 ā©: 1
Wow. Now THOSE are marble columns. Great job. Marble's a hard stone to get right.
š: 0 ā©: 1
Everything about this is so beautiful I can't even begin to pick a favorite part
š: 0 ā©: 1
Thank You. It's all traditional. This piece was planned a little more/better than usual for me. It took me two months from concept to completion.
Hope all's well on your end. Anything new coming?
š: 0 ā©: 1
Well it was def worth all the planning. You can tell lots of patience and work went into it. I think one of my biggest irritations on this website is seeing someone put up something like omg this took me forever my hand hards so bad I worked on it for 3 days. When you work on a painting for 2 months then you have reason to bitch it took forever not 3 days haha. I'm working on another smaller painting right now. It was supposed to be done for halloween (just a bit late)so its just a simpler vampire painting. Plan is to put up a work in progress submission with it showing just the basic steps I use for working with acrylics. I don't get all that many views, but if it helps one person it will be worth it
š: 0 ā©: 1
It wasn't two months solid. Total time was some where around 40 maybe 50 hours. I changed the comp several times until I found something that worked. I didn't want it to look mechanical. Finding the right reference was murder as usual. I kept putting a mean guy with a sword in the back but it never worked. I wanted her to be the dominator not the possible victim. So I found a reference from an old 1950's beefcake pic of a man tied to a pole and modified it. I painted him in normal flesh colors then I airbrushed a transparent cerilain (not sure of the spelling) blue. Then I highlighted him with a light blue. He blended into the background just right. The primary subject (queen/goddess) was originally a model named Aria Giavanni. She's naturally curvy and matched some of Frazetta's women.
I change her face and made her a blond so she would pop off the back. Working the back light is always tricky. There's a fine line between realism and graphic sometimes. The tiger was a body from one and a head from another to give it a little more emotion. The rest was created on the fly. I used a lot more brush work and less airbrush in the mountain details and work out really well. I airbrushed in the haze of coarse. I'm glad that you like it. I'm working on another one. Hope to have it done within the next two weeks. The primary subject in this one will be a male. (New territory for me LOL)
G-Man
š: 0 ā©: 1
Yeah usually for any of my bigger paintings I just work on and off again on them for a couple months rather then all at once also. Reference hunting and thinking usually takes more time then doing the acutal painting. You can never find the reference you are looking for it seems. I try to pick the reference photo first then decide what I want to do with it, but doesn't work if you already know what you want. I like to usally go with victoria secret models. Some of the girls are a bit to thin for my liking, but theres a few that have a lot more nautral curvy bodies that work out really well. I have a virtual pose book thats very helpful also. It has photos of the model in 6 different views of the same pose in the book, but also comes with a cd you can put in and turn the model to the exact position you want. You did a great job of making it have a Frazetta like look and keeping it your style. I'm sure your man painting will turn out just fine haha.
š: 0 ā©: 0
Thank You. You never know with these type of shows. Bisley and Brom are two of the judges. So the standards are pretty high
š: 0 ā©: 1
I agree with you about the judging standars. Love Brom's work.
š: 0 ā©: 0
Well Thank You!!! I'm getting a little better in my old age. LOL
š: 0 ā©: 1
lol... Your welcome
š: 0 ā©: 0
you're very welcome!
š: 0 ā©: 0
very impressive and totally your style, I recognized you immediately, waw
š: 0 ā©: 1
Well Thank You. Keep Em Crossed!!! There are a lot of great entries in this show. Hope all is well for you.
š: 0 ā©: 1
Thank you. I'll need it LOL... Simon Bisley and Brom are two of the judges. So the standards are pretty high. There are a lot of really nice entries.
š: 0 ā©: 1
where is this contest? I want to see the entries
Brom, waw
š: 0 ā©: 1
It's in Chicago Illinois USA. Here's the link for the details.
[link]
Veronika Kotlajic is hosting the show. She's a great
person. You should contact her.
[link]
[link]
š: 0 ā©: 0
glad to see something from you looks great, are you doing the tribute of his painting style or subject?
š: 0 ā©: 1
Thank you. I've got a lot going on so It's been hard to get to my personal work lately. I Believe that it's more about the subject as apposed to the style. I don't know If this piece covers either of them but we'll see what the judges think. Two of the judges are Bisley and Brom. That's some pretty high standards.
š: 0 ā©: 1
woah..thats some great judges, are they going to be in chicago to?..Ive got to goto this..Ill have to take some vacation from work but it would be worth it
š: 0 ā©: 1
I'll keep you posted. Don't know if they'll be there or not. The model putting on the show is Veronika Kotlijac. She's been on several Heavy Metal Covers and has two published books. She's knows a lot of people high up in the industry so there's a good chance that they will be.
š: 0 ā©: 1
yes...please keep me posted
š: 0 ā©: 1
Oh wow, neat!!! Beautifully done as always ^^
š: 0 ā©: 1
Thank you. Hope all is well for you.
š: 0 ā©: 0