This week has been great!! I've learned my lesson from my previous two zombies and have painted the outside edges of my canvases *before* beginning the underpainting! So much less of a headache since I won't have to worry about ruining my painting at the last minute! Now I need to figure out how I want to attach the canvases together before I start the final work on it. Since it's only three pieces, it will be much easier (in theory), so we shall see. At least none of them will be as hard as my first one with the 11 canvases. That was not my smartest move :)
Anyway, here is the painting as I was working on her - I took a photo about halfway through my day. I started with her face, which ended up on the green side, but sort of figured out my palette as I was working through the painting. Painting an unnatural skin tone is harder than you might think. I have the tendency to make the skin tone a natural one and think "ooh, no, I need to make her look dead!" and go far too cool. In this case it's okay since it's just the underpainting. I have time to rectify it and have a nice cool base to work off of!
Early in the day:
End of the day:
I'm very happy with the way this underpainting looks! It's got good form, decent values and now I know for sure what lines I'm looking at! :) Her face is still quite flat and green, but that'll get fixed - all in due time! My next project for her is to figure out her exact anatomy so I can emaciate her and have her bones sticking out a bit more. Since she's a scavenger, it's not enough to have her thin - she's starving and eating found intestines! So needless to say, by the end she's going to be quite skeletal.
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