Kurai - From Start to Finish

i finished this on Tuesday a little before midnight..... then on Wednesday I took all 6 paintings to my final critique... so with this piece this series is 'technically' done.... i'll still probably paint a few more like this but on my own time. It feels odd thinking that i love painting as much as i do.... three years ago when i started college i had never really painted before.... it was really hard and i really sucked.... but as i tried different medium i found one i love  and now i just want to keep on painting....

anyways i think because i was rushed i had a hard time with figuring out how to post him.... so i went more simple....

once again i was in a rush so i forgot to photograph while it was just black lines..... oh well.... so this is once again 14x20 on hot pressed paper and yeah.... his name is Kurai for now.... i named him ten years ago so i'll probably change it since none of my other characters have 'japanese' names....
"but what about Raichana?" yeah it's a made up name... try searching it on baby names sites or name meaning sites.... you'll get no results.
anyways i don't know if i'll actually change his name.... but i really want to.

so this is the 'final' result..... or at least what i presented to class.... i think i will go in now that it's all over and add other colours into all of them.... i would have done it earlier but i didn't finish till very late and editign them all would have kept me up all night.... probably...

but yeah i really had a good time with this series, loved every moment on it and like i said before i'm lookign forward to painting even more.

now how am i going to fit all of these in the grad show.... hmmmmmm (i have a 4 x 8 panel and these with the black border are 28 inches wide and 30 inches tall...this should be interesting)

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Kenji -From Start to Finish-

This is the second of a six image series where i will be using colour psychology to help focus the content.

Green gives off a sense of harmony and refreshment. it gives us more rest and makes us feel more at piece. because of nature it's also seen as growth and fertility. you have to be careful with green though since they wrong shade will make you think of being sick or untrustworth.

i went for the relaxing theme with my character kenji.

 now these pieces part a lot bigger then i'm used to working... so to have a close shot on a 14x20 canvas was really hard for me.... but i had a lot of fun with it.... originally it was going to be half of his body but after the composition sketch in small scale i figured out it looked more appealing close up. you can still see all my pencil in this shot.... dunno why i took the pic before i erased it...
anyways...

this is a little under the midway point.... i took the shot in the worst possible lighting conditions then tried to skew it so it didn't look so odd.... yeah that didn't work but still at this point i had been working about an hour... maybe an hour and a half.... i think i was more confident with this one so i was a bit quicker... then after another hour or so of just buckling down and getting this done...

took this one in better lighting.... though i really should get a set up so i can photograph larger pieces.
i really enjoyed doing this and i'm actually pretty pumped to get started on the next one... plus it was fun drawing a character whom barely ever gets any attention....
Kenji, goes by Ken. Second child in a family of 4.... has an older brother, a younger brother and a younger half sister. His stone is Jadeite and he's one of my more carefree characters...
or is he? dun dun dunnnnnnn

alright so my remaining colours are red, orange, yellow and blue.... i may do more after but for now i need to get one of each colour done.

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