One
of my closest friends had mentioned on more than one occasion that she
really wanted to commission someone to paint a family portrait, but with
a catch - the whole family was to be done in the style of
Dia de los Muertos figures.
I
thought this would be great fun to have as a topic for my journey of
learning to paint. And it was, thankfully... So my process was to first
select the appropriate picture of each person. There was no picture
with them together that I wanted to convert, so I seleced one picture
that best represented the individual's personality and made a
composite. Here are the originals
Having selected the model pics for ths family, the next step was to arrange them together in the underpainting:
And then finally, begin to sculpt their faces so I could get the beginnings of a resemblance. It's really important to remember that it's ok that these figures don't look exactly right at this stage.
Continued tomorrow...
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