Its been a while since my last post...so in the spirit of the holidays and the fact that I'm a sucker for these films round this time of year, I thought I'd shake off some dust with a nice round of portraits. I had planned 12 in this series but I'm also finaling a game right now...crazy.
These started out as an exercise in rendering using a great set of graphite brushes my friend Tony turned me onto. You can find the brushes here. It's interesting to see the evolution move towards a more Struzan"esque" treatment as I went along...damnit I couldn't help myself!
These were created obviously with heavy use of reference from the following films in order in which i did em,
A Christmas Carol [1984]
A Muppet Christmas Carol [1992]
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation[1989]
A Muppet Family Christmas [1987]
A Christmas Story [1983]
Its a Wonderful Life [1946]
These were great fun and I look forward to doing another round of these at Halloween!
I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Barret.
yes! these are great man, I am really impressed with all of them, but the evolution is really awesome too. Got to tap fozzy jimmy as my faves.... you really let the mid-tone do it's job on these man.... awesome.
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miss you.
hi to the nlg fam.
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