I wanted to do a painting that had kind of spooky vibe to it, without it being spooky at all. I've always been a fan of horror movies and zombie flicks, and was trying to create that same tense "it's coming" feeling without it being a horrofic subject. I decided to go with these sweet little baby turtles making there way from the beach to ocean, which can be a pretty terrifying endeavor for these little cherubs. Here are a couple shots of my progress into the final piece.
this is the beginning stage, I always like to start with the background or whatever is furthest back and slowly work my way forward on the piece
after laying down base colors I begin to add little bits of details. Things are still pretty sloppy looking in this stage.
and after adding all my colors and details I can finally move on to adding all the black, it really helps add a crispness to the piece and I can more seriously establish my values with shading. Then before I know it I'm finished, and I can go back and add white highlights if I feel like it's necessary.
Hope all you steemers enjoy this piece and make sure to follow if you want to see more!
Haha these are some killer turtles !
thanks man!
excellent write up this is so sweet! I wish I had a poster of this to put up for real! that evil turtle smile though lol
thank you! I'm still working on setting up an etsy shop, but I will have this one available on prints. I'll put something up about it once I have it running.
@honeycombwinnie
Nice writeup
Keep it up.
thank you @qagiri , still getting the hang of things
Nice work, I love turtles! Upvoted/following :)
thank you! I love them too. you are artwork is fantastic by the way
Thanks, your's is too! So many talented people on steemit :)
cool illustration :)
thank you!
Good going! Keep up the good work :)
thank you @firepower
wow, you are realy talented. i have to check out more of your work!
thank you @bronkong, I appreciate it!
Keep it up, this ones off the charts!!!
Good post, glad you joined now?
Brilliant job , I'm new in steemit I'm happy to see how much creative I find around ,
it's everwhere! welcome
Congratulations @honeycombwinnie!
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awesome, thank you
@honeycombwinnie @mughalmirza Who really painted this? It has been posted by two people. I smell something fishy...
If you look @honeycombwinnie's post was posted 2 days. ago. @mughalmirza's was posted 20 hours ago. Looks like @mughalmirza has got some explaining to do.
thanks for bringing this up, i probably would have never noticed. I'm the artist behind it, i don't know what @mughalmirza is trying to pull, but i'm going to report them once i figure it out
@honeycombwinnie Cool, glad I'm not going crazy. I'd be curious to learn what you find out once you have gotten it sorted.
all I really figured out was that, that post got flagged along with many others they were plagiarizing. I wish they got there account shut down, but I'll take the small victory I guess. Hopefully they won't do it again, but it seemed like a little bit of a slap on the wrists. Thanks again for the heads up @yourservice, greatly appreciated.
This looks really cool, love it!!!
thank you @justaboutart!
You are incredible - I love this - absolutely awesome! Thank you for sharing!! They certainly do look like little zombies coming out from the ground when they emerge - awesome concept!
thanks @j-vo, it was a fun piece to do, I thought maybe cicada's but ended up going turtles and I'm glad I did
This is such a fun image. I love the expressions on the turtles' faces.
thanks, I just tried to picture what I look like getting out of bed in the morning
You and me both, brother!
super cool!
thank you @mralan ! i love that gif