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Stripped of his mask, his vulnerability revealed.
When I first decided to paint this, my plan was to keep it monochrome, which suits the broody nature of both his expression and the pose. And for the purposes of the 2 hour challenge that I started this for, that worked well; monochrome is always faster than color for me, I got to the end of the two hours and had something I could be happy with.
But the more I looked at it, the more I felt that I needed to include the livid bloom of those bruises, the angry edges of his wounds, the small indignity of that red dent on his nose from an ill-fitting mask. So much of Kylo Ren is defined by the damage he's sustained, and these physical wounds echo the ones inflicted upon his spirit. And for that I needed to use color.
So I did.
Photo used for reference was a screencap from TLJ taken & edited by m_suolo on twitter.
About 3.5 hours for this version, I needed about 90 min more after the allotted 2 hours for the Cherry Pop Challenge to clean up a few details, and get the color overlays and textures the way I wanted.
When I first decided to paint this, my plan was to keep it monochrome, which suits the broody nature of both his expression and the pose. And for the purposes of the 2 hour challenge that I started this for, that worked well; monochrome is always faster than color for me, I got to the end of the two hours and had something I could be happy with.
But the more I looked at it, the more I felt that I needed to include the livid bloom of those bruises, the angry edges of his wounds, the small indignity of that red dent on his nose from an ill-fitting mask. So much of Kylo Ren is defined by the damage he's sustained, and these physical wounds echo the ones inflicted upon his spirit. And for that I needed to use color.
So I did.
Photo used for reference was a screencap from TLJ taken & edited by m_suolo on twitter.
About 3.5 hours for this version, I needed about 90 min more after the allotted 2 hours for the Cherry Pop Challenge to clean up a few details, and get the color overlays and textures the way I wanted.
