jamie did you create that first pic? that's awesome!
and what is it that you do in the other pics? i don't quite understand what you do and how you do it..

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No I did not create the first pic, I am trying to replicate it.

I'm posting each stage in the painting process in order to get crits from other users..

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ah ok! looks good will keep checking your progress i saw your nude female drawings and they were awesome

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if im lucky it will be ok

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The only thing I see missing at this point is the thing to the left of the skull.
I'm sure when it's done we will have a hard time telling it from the original.

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thanks Chris

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Looking good dude. but honestly. I think you should attempt something like this completely "freehand" if you know what I mean.
I know you are painting all the details in a manual layered process but I think you would gain more from the experience of nailing the composition without having it underneath as you block. That is of course a valid method in many ways but if you are doing it to learn from this artist I think the main strength of the work is in its rough composition and there would be more to be gained from really observing that as a primary goal and making a few mistakes copying it by eye.

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this is not a paint over dude, I sketch then block in color then blend then add detail. Go look at my pear tutorial to see how I go about painting. I spent like 4 hours blocking in these forms.

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its looking good. who is the original artist?

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Wow! ok. in that case this is pretty frakking accurate. I looked at the images overlaid in photoshop before I posted my comment because I wanted to make sure I wasnt jumping to conclusions. I just assumed you had roughed it in using the image as a guide because every detail is so exactly right. down to the millimeter in the exact aspect ratio. and the colours are RGB perfect aswell. I couldnt imagine doing this without at least some sort of construction method using measurements or grids to get every tile to match up etc... Whats your technique?.

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Are you serious!! ill have to check it out overlayed.

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ok this is how I do things, I get down my sketch, I try to gets the forms and proportion right first, then once I have the sketch I color pick my palette from the original image and then i block in the color, while blocking in the color i go through and fix all the errors in form by eye and then when im happy I begin to blend. I always have the original image and my image side by side and I tend to make the files of a similar aspect ratio so i can compare between the two of them. It would be much more difficult if i was working from a smaller image.

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Well I apologise for thinking that. your eye is very very accurate. especially the colour study. how did you get the tiles so perfectly aligned. If I tried to do this by eye I would have certainly fudged the tile layout or missed some relationships by a few mm . Great work jamie. look forward to the detail stage. Makes me want to get into a painting over my holiday break.

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I do figure study in my art pad like everyday man, so I guess im just good at measuring by now, i didn't feel my sketch was that good to be honest. The tiles were a bitch man i did them like five times, in the end i roughed them in in black and white and then merged a color layer. Also the tiles are really in no way accurate man.

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No thats cool. its a great skill to have dude. You can't tell me the tiles arent accurate though. they match exactly Heres a 50/50 blend.

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Wow, that's spot on. Good stuff Jamie.

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thanks man

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yea but on a 50/50 blend your eyes correct the errors. You can barley see my image even tho it is clearly there. I feel like a fraud now .. haha

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