The Sinister Minister part II

So here is the shaded version of the Minister.

No doubt you’ll notice that the lightning strikes and flames have been left white. Partly that’s for contrast, and partly because I was going to colour them in red and yellow as an extra strong contrast. I’m not sure I want to do that any more (I’m afraid that it’ll wreck the atmosphere of the painting): it’s times like this that I wish I had a decent scanner/image editing software combination, so I could try it out before committing to changing the paper version. I really don’t want to have to redo the whole thing.

Anyway, the best thing I’ve always found to do is to leave it for a while, and have a look again in a week or so.

The Sinister Minister

So, recently I’ve been having urges. Urges, to draw dark, boldly liney drawngs with dark subject matter. I begin this one, which I’m calling The Sinister Minister, with the below line drawing.

I’ve now progressed to the inked version, at least the stage where the lines and solid blacks are in.

Next up is the shading stage, which is definitely going to be the meat of the painting . I take my time and spit-shade all the mid- and light-tones, and leave some areas white for contrast. That’s going to have to be the next post, because it’ll take me a whole long ass time.