Tysoe's Art Blog

This painting had been bugging me for a while. It’s been hanging on the wall above my monitor for a couple of months now. This weekend I thought I’d take it down and touch it up in a few areas where it lacked a little something. Both the fantasy paintings I did were not really to my satisfaction so I decided to show them put them up small.

I’m quite pleased with the retouched version, Subtle changes were made that I feel made a difference. Originally Silverstein was supposed to be an Elven Cleric with proficiency with the Bow. But most of her powers in the game were from a divine power source. So I had her pointing her finger intending to add a magic effect. In the end I decided I didn’t want any fancy effects at her finger tip and wanted to show that she also used  a Bow.

In the original painting I always intended her to be drawing an arrow from her quiver behind her head but it always looked funny. This weekend I realized that the problem was the hand being superimposed in front of her hair so that it looked like she was firing an invisible arrow. I painted in some extra hair obscuring the hand a little and it made all the difference.  I definately didn’t want to add an arrow obscuring her face.

Funny how the little details can make subtle differences. I have begun to notice these things more and more lately. I suppose thats one of those things that develop as you improve as an artist.

Other little things I added were reflections of the sky in shiny areas. Unfortunately  these are quite subtle and didn’t come out well in the photo.

The last few months have been busy with contract work. Mostly video games which I don’t post on here.  Anyway, I thought I’d stick up a few of my 1 hour quick sketches done in oils.

These paintings are all 9″x14″ painted in Oils