Step by Step Art with Kim DeMulder

site updated 07/23/02

STEP-BY-STEP

A Step by Step Painting.
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Step 0
This painting started with a photo-shoot with the beautiful and exotic model, Azziza who is also a belly dancer. She has a variety of really cool costumes and I loved this one with the wings. I will use 4 or 5 of these photos for reference for the painting.

Step 1
OK, back to the drawing board...I make an initial drawing from the photo reference. I work on tracing paper, here because I will transfer the design to illustration board to paint on.

Step 2
I usually don't put too much detail into my initial pencil drawings, preferring to do much of the actual rendering in the painting stage.

Step 3
To transfer the pencil design to the illustration board, I rub graphite on the back of the tracing and trace back over that to the board. I am going to paint this one with acrylics, so there's no big need for clean, detailed pencils.

Step 4
After transferring the rather loose pencils, I touch them up a bit.

Step 5
My color scheme for this painting will be a dark background of mostly cool colors and lighter values for the wings and figure, with warmer colors on the figure itself. I start painting in the background colors, first.

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