EARLY ACCESS // chair lines (Patreon)

Hello lovely patrons! Thanks to everyone who stuck around for yet another month, and welcome new Patrons! I’m working on editing this month’s tutorial which will be done next week, so keep an eye out for that! For now, here’s the first art post of the month ~

I took one of my sketches from last month’s sketch session and finalized it in Photoshop! The sketch is loosely based on this fantastic editoral photo by Steven Meisel.

It has been so soothing to just focus on lines and pick away at the smaller details. I tend to struggle with details because I go from sketch to painting and usually delay detailing until the end of the process. When I’m just working with lines it feels a lot more fun to push the detail and I think the result is quite refreshing!

I’m very stuck on how to proceed from here though. If I used my normal workflow, I’d be painting over a lot of the lines at a later stage, and I just don’t want to do that this time! I want to keep the lines intact. I have a bunch of different color setups but I’m not really feeling any of these:

What do you think about them? I feel like they are too brown and too faded. I’m going to have to try out some different approaches before I find something that works for this. For now, I hope you like the linework!