Family Portrait Commission

Began a large family portrait commission last night. It's of a very beautiful family. Currently I've blocked in and started detailing mom. This is about 1.5 hrs of work so far.

Finished

Update

Laying in the upper background as I don't want to smudge the painting after my putting it in. I'll put in the lower background later once the car is almost complete. I've also worked on the windows, and some more shading/highlighting. I'm thrilled with how it's going so far. In person the colors are much more velvety looking and blended well, the camera picks up some weirdness. As you can see I have several reference photos. Many are of the actual car, and some are of the same make/model. It's easier to see some of the details on the other reference materials.

Next Commission

Next commission I'm working on and it's my FIRST car ever. It's been fun so far though. Alot different from what I normally do in that the shape has to be spot on. The basic black has been blocked in and now I'm going back and adding in the shading and details.


Shading and adding details

The black I'm using is a mixture of dark blue and black. It's giving me a much nicer, richer black then just flat black pastel would.

Beginning to block in

Line drawing and filling in of the decal words

Background

This is the last picture on this piece. The background has been tweaked and now this portrait is sealed and FINISHED! I'm happy with the way it turned out. Hopefully the client will be too.

Tweaking

Tweaked the eyes on the brown dog and also it's pony tail. Made it messier per what the client said was more true to the animal. This is an update.