I've been working on this picture, intended as a large print. I shot a picture of a lion licking it's lips at a zoo and wanted to use it for something. When completed it should look like an ornate playing card, with top and bottom reverse-mirrored. Here's the piece as it currently stands, with some detail shots below, and some progress shots following those. It's a mixture of photo-reference and digital painting. The original is about 6800 pixels square, so quite a beast.
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| Original photo reference taken at Whipsnade Zoo |
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| Hand detail - hairs individually painted on |
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Background detail
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| Painted cloth |
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| Some camel hair, my latex-gloved hand, and some medieval jewellery |
The idea for the gloves was to be that the lion is wearing human leather gloves over his own paws, so the fur is tucked under the cuff, but it didn't quite achieve that look. Here are various stages in it's evolution:
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| Early stages |
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