[Riot Art Contest] - Syndra Triptych

csinek

Tackling the idea of re-imagining a skin/splash page from a bit of a different angle. I have no idea what I'm doing, buuuut I'm going to go ahead and do it anyways, because it sounds pretty fun. \o/

Initial thumbnail doodle



Grayscale thumbnail



Messing around with colored pencils while I explore some composition and color ideas. I will probably switch over to digital for the rest of the color study for the sake of time management. The paintings themselves are going to be time consuming, so I should probably stop screwing around with Prismacolors and get down to business.



Also, I'm going to do these in oils.



Hoping to get around to starting on the actual drawings on Monday.

Alvaro.Knot

Niceeeee, i love the idea, looking forward on it ^^

Balut

Man, you're doing it in oil? Wow that's cool!

manerarts

Love the idea of doing it tradicionally its gonna be in oil or with color pencil? or a mix of both anyway good job and good idea

csinek

Thanks for the encouragement! I spend most of the day painting digitally for my job, so I have been eager to get my hands dirty with traditional media for a while.

The paintings will be all oil paint. I'm planning a decent amount of sculpture/painting work for the frame to incorporate elements that tell her story, but I'll post up some sketches for that later tonight.

Right now I'm torn between keeping this more static setup, or striving for something more dynamic for the center image. I went with static originally to reflect that old school religious figure vibe you see in triptychs a lot, but I think with some more work I might be able to come up with something that makes the wave-like flow more dynamic.

csinek

And in the interest of honesty, I originally went with static because I'm not really an oil painter by trade so I was being a wuss and trying to minimize my handicap level. =P

viniciusbortoletto

This is awesome. Seriously. It's static but idk, I think the composition is brilliant. Only thing I'd different would be to bring a more dark and evil look to her face. She just seems too happy. haha

Odow

Looking nice but isn't it in Riot rules to make it dynamic ?

csinek

Yep! But dynamic just means energetic, so it doesn't necessarily need an action pose. Though that is also a big part of Riot's signature look, I don't think it would work very well for the triptych concept. Ultimately, this is one big experiment. Also since my strength is neither oils nor extreme perspective, I thought it best to limit how many crazy things I tackle at once on a deadline.

There are a few ways I'm trying to make it dynamic without going for the extreme perspective action shot. The composition, and the color/lighting, and (once I switch over to actually painting it) I'll be trying to control my brushwork reeeaaaally carefully to add more motion in there.


Digital color thumbnail! A lot will probably change between this and the final drawing, but this part of the process helps me figure out things I need to fix in the drawing and gets me thinking about how I'm going to manage the colors.

Or... gives me mild panic attacks about how I'm going to manage the colors. =P

Gobliness

Seriously awesome that you are using oils and not the standard layout for this piece. Definitely got some work ahead of you, excited to watch the progression of this!

eCupcakes

love the colors! also,can i just say....i'm jealous of your painting workstation

csinek

Thanks. I'm both really excited and a little bit terrified of what I've gotten myself into. =P

I have to wrap up some work stuff this weekend, but I'm hoping to have the drawings finished and transferred onto the gesso boards by the end of the week. I'm going to try and push that spiral flow in the composition and try to get a little more motion in the center figure.

I actually added some stuff to my traditional area recently. =D I'll have to take some pictures whenever I'm ready to photograph the gesso boards.