After admiring some of the Sam Berman caricature paintings at www.cartoonretro.com I got the painting bug. So this afternoon my friends Katie and Luke were kind enough to escort me to the art store and help me pick out some paints. Never having painted before I found the process both relaxing and frustrating. Relaxing in that I didn't have to worry about producing something under a deadline and frustrating in that I have no idea what I'm doing and can't seem to get what I have in my head down on the paper. Thought I'd post what I did anyway and hopefully get some feed back. One of the things I really like about some of the Berman paintings is the tonal contrast, something that this painting is sorely lacking. Hopefully the next one will be better and the hundred bucks I dropped on painting supplies won't be a total waste...
7 comments:
I don't think it was a total loss, looks pretty good to me. What kind of paint did you settle on? Please keep up the inspiring work Fred!!
Oh yeah, whats up with Rufus and Horny? I'd hate to see that just fall by the wayside.
-Chris
Heya Chris, I used cel vinyl. I'm really unhappy with the results, though I'm pretty sure it's not the paints fault. I keep going back and forth about wanting to take this painting off the site or not. On the one hand I'm emarassed by it but on the other it's good incentive to try and do something better and hopefully get some constructive critisism.
I still work on Rufus and Horny when I have the time. There's a bunch of (fairly) new drawings that I want to share but it will come down to whenever Shane and I can get in contact to post the update.
Wow!! Fred, this is awesome for your first stab at painting! I can't wait to see what else you do! I love his giant orange head!
Yo man, I have also been trying my hand at the paints lately - to me it feels like wiping sticky boogers around compared to my beloved ink.
But where we differ is that yours looks great man, keep it up - it totally made me chuckle when it first came up.
Jeremy's right, our pumpkin did smell gross. You're a jerk fred, stop paintin so cool! But before you do, paint the first caricature of the DIZ you posted. That one's my favorite.
looks great
i love that slash of his hairline
that's good
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