painting composition process- so far

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 In Phil's lesson on friday he suggested that I made some thumbnail sketches of how I would like the composition of my painting to be. the top set of thumbnails are some examples drawn by Phil as a guide.

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I then drew some more at home and liked the larger new pose I wanted to scan it in and do some editing in photoshop.

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 I opened a new layer and started to sketch out some changes in red.

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 I then hid the initial layer to see just the red progress.

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 Changing back and forth the visibility of the original layer to keep the basic idea.

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 I was trying to draw a sense of depth by using a table and the hand and feet coming towards the viewer.

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 I decided this way wasn't working for me so I opened a new layer and re-drew part of the image.

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 Here the head was too low and wasn't showing the neck at all so I re-drew this also.

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Here the head is tilting slightly and the shoulders and fat are giving the impression of one side lifting (the arm reaching). 

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 I refined these points a bit more then started re-drawing the other leg back in.

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 I added hair in a new layer to give it some features.

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 Here I noticed the toes on this foot were shorter than the other so I marked in some new position indicators.

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 Then I drew them to the markers.

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 I copied and pasted all of these layers into a new page.

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 Then these layers had to be positioned on the page.

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 When I had decided on the final position I selected all of the layers, then merged them so I could erase all of the messy sketch lines.

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 I wanted to see what this drawing would look like on a black background so I filled a new layer with black and arranged it behind everything. Here it shows white patches. This is from the original photoshop sketch-out where I painted over some lines in white instead of using the eraser so it wouldn't show the lines in the layer below.

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 These white patches are now erased. The ones inside the drawing don't need to be removed.

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 I then removed the black layer to continue editing.

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Here the image has been made into black and white so I can work into it differently.  

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I tried out adding some loose shadow. 

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And some more. 

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Then adding some tone into the metamorphosis. 

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and some more. 

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then some white highlights to remove some of the sketchy lines. 

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And here I took a screen capture of it on a black background to sum up the progress of this post. 

There will be more to come soon.