Paint small and paint smaller - discworld fan art

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I'm takiing a break from my goose and experimenting with a wizzard.  

this is the Wizzard that Nicole made

and to show off how small the painting is, it's about the same size as his hat - 4 inches.



Now, to wait for it to dry.

Maybe I might paint another one while I wait?  

That is such a small painting! I hadn't realized how small it was until you put it next to his hat. Wow! It doesn't look small at all!

Thanks.

It's kind of fun painting tiny details.  But it also reminds me I'm overdue for an eye exam.

I'm using colour charcoal for the drawing.  Some of the charcoal smudges into the paint if I forget to knock off the dust with a soft brush.   I am challenging myself to draw them by hand.  Trying to pay attention to the details and larger shapes at the same time.



When painting, I have a black and white printout I can put little dabs of paint on to check the values.  If the paint disappears, I got it right.  It's good training



And another one to put to one side to dry.

Showing this one to a few friends, I don't think I got the leaves right.  It's supposed to be potato plants.  

Maybe once the colour is on it it will be better?

The leaves look like potato leaves, but I'm not sure how many people look at potato leaves that often. You only see potato leaves if you grow potatoes. You don't see potato leaves on potatoes at the grocery store, like carrot leaves and beet leaves. People don't draw potato leaves in stories, like pumpkin or corn. They're not found wild in nature like blackberries. Even if you grow potatoes, you probably don't spend that much time looking at their leaves, because they don't require much weeding or harvesting amidst the leaves,.

Do your friends grow potatoes? If they don't grow potatoes, don't worry about them not being able to identify them as potatoes.

the making of the octavo, the most powerful book on discworld.

Our wizzard is the only one fabled to survive reading it.







And now to let him dry.

Some of you might have guessed, I'm not posting these in real time.  Yet.

To get to this first layer, each takes me at least two days of drawing and two or three days of painting.

This tiny detail stuff is tricky for me.  It's a lot slower than I usually paint.  Trying to focus on details and guess which are best done earlier in the painting and which can be more easily added in the top layers (like the stars on the hat, I hope).

I had posted about it before, but wanted to share a pair of my own, fandom tinies. These are Good Omens based and watercolour on salvaged ivory.

Beautiful!

Thank you for sharing your painting.

I love good omens.  One of my favourite books of all time, if not The favourite.

r ranson wrote:the making of the octavo, the most powerful book on discworld.

Our wizzard is the only one fabled to survive reading it.



And now to let him dry.

Oooooo! This turned out so lovely! You did an amazing job with the texture of his robe. And, I love how you situated the original picture so perfectly on the canvas. Very well done!

For over a week, a moth guarded our stairway and attacked all who dare enter.  So, of course, when he was having a rest from a particularly energetic imitation of a chaos butterfly, i shot him.  With my picture box.  So I could paint him, or her.  





A simple image,  but I took a lot more care trying to get the cone shape working on the hat.

And now, to let him dry.

Nicole Alderman wrote:

Oooooo! This turned out so lovely! You did an amazing job with the texture of his robe. And, I love how you situated the original picture so perfectly on the canvas. Very well done!

Thank you.

I hope it will still be lovely when colour happens. I'm very nervous about that as I'm not great with colour yet.

r ranson wrote:For over a week, a moth guarded our stairway and attacked all who dare enter.  So, of course, when he was having a rest from a particularly energetic imitation of a chaos butterfly, i shot him.  With my picture box.  So I could paint him, or her.  



A simple image,  but I took a lot more care trying to get the cone shape working on the hat.

I love your use of light, contrast and line. It's such a nicely done painting and fantastic composition. The moth on his hat is just too perfect, in so many ways!

I wish I could take the credit.  Mothra choose the composition and the lighting was perfect.  Like the universe was saying "paint me!"

I suppose I should have thought of this question sooner.

What does one do with 4" square paintings?  

My ridiculous first thought is: "Decorate a doll room with them!" (like the 18 inch "American Girl" and Maplelea Canadian Girl dolls), because that's the right scale for them. But, you probably don't have such a doll, let alone a to-scale room for it!

You could cluster a bunch of them together in an art wall.

You could put them on knick-knack shelves amidst other pretty/magical looking objects.

You could decorate a wizzard shelf and it would look like they were tiny self-portraits of said wizzard! Fill it with other wizardly knick-knacks, like pretty rocks, preserved butterflies, tiny jars of spices, beeswax candles, painted eggs--especially ones that look like dragon eggs-- etc!

His first adventure .  Every action figure needs accessories.





Now to let him dry.

I wonder how the first paintings are doing?