The Tall Dark Handsome Stranger
by Sandra Parlow
Title
The Tall Dark Handsome Stranger
Artist
Sandra Parlow
Medium
Photograph - Digital Painting
Description
I've finally finished my Tall, Dark, Handsome Stranger painting. I started this about 5 months ago and just kept putting it aside to do other things, but I think it's finally done.
I started off with one of my photos to get the scene but I painted over top of it - you can't see any part of the original photo any more. It was just for the composition, and the whole thing was painted by hand.
I used some leafy brushes, etc - otherwise it would have taken hours and hours and hours to do all those by hand. As it is, it took me forever.
I'ts funny how it evolved from what I had in my mind.. At first it was just going to be a scene, then I decided it needed something .. so I put the person in. People are so hard to get right. I used a reference photo to trace for that as well - again, to get the form and proportions right. Hopefully some day I won't need to do that. And at first it was going to just be a foggy scene, but then it looked too dull, so I added the light shaft and then it started to really take form. Once I got the highlights painted on to the man he started to really look like part of the scene.
I've only done a few digital paintings and I really want to do more and get better at this, so I need to find the time to work on them more often.
I've been an artist my whole life. I was the geeky kid in high school with glasses and graphite on my fingers and doodles on all of my belongings. If I'd have kept at it I'd probably be pretty damn good by now - but I suppose it's never too late to improve your skills if you want to do it.
If you can enlarge this, please do - the detail is pretty fine in some places and you can't see it real well zoomed out.
Thanks for looking at my Tall, Dark and Handsome man.. ;)
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February 5th, 2015
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