More Bettie Page art
This is the piece I wanted to create back in December for Bettie Page's tribute but at the time I only managed a simple cartoon. So it's a little late to be a tribute, but anytime's a good time to draw Bettie. Expect more soon.
Here's a link showing the pencils and the halfway stage on the colours.
posted by Chris Wahl at 12:59 PM
34 Comments:
freakin AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
Youre my hero....
Geez Chris! Incredible!
These are great Chris! Its good to know you will always be WAY better than me. :)
That's is absolutely, without a doubt, stunningly beautiful.
absolutely great...
Beautiful light. Awesome job!
Holy ***t that's fantastic! Beautiful structure and lighting!
Cool drawing! Hot girl! Great work!
Incredible color work ! Beautifull :)
Hey Chris.... WOW.... yeah... that about covers it... you have (yet again) made me feel like I have an ass load to learn.... but in a good way... thanks again... now I need to find all my brain bits...
J
Wow !!! It´s great !!! I wanna add you to my own blog:
http://j-ramos.blogspot.com
Greetins from Spain.
Fantastic work!
I really like the rendering on this one. Great cast shadows and variance in colour saturation. So much cool looking contrasts in this one
Your art is amazing. I wanted to add this site to my reader, but it seems your rss feed doesn't work.
Thanks everyone!!
Carlos Mal- I'm not sure what the problem is, but if anyone is having a problem let me know as well. Meanwhile Carlos, here are the feeds I know work-
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Chriswahlart
feed://chriswahlart.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/chriswahlart/
Thanks, I added the feedburner one and it works perfectly. Thanks for replying so fast!
Hell yeah! Great Bettie you did!! :)
It´s freaking awesome man!! Cheers.
BEAUTIFUL illustration!!!
VAMPIRELLA style.
This is so wonderful. I think everyone else has already said it, but thank you for creating such a beautiful tribute. It's never too late for a tribute.
I have to agree with all the past comments, beautiful work - love the pose, color, and the lighting is awesome, perfect - love it!
Fantastic! I love the way your digital stuff has such a traditional hand done quality ....so, so nice. Thanks for showing the stages, love that!
Hi Chris,
Great job on this! I know I have asked similar questions before - please forgive if a repeat. What is your process with this piece? Did you use reference images? Is your first image actually a pencil drawing? Or is it done digitally? What drawing program(s) are you using? I'd love to see the layered file to see the progression?
Thanks for sharing!
-Jonathan
Thanks all!
Jonathan- Originally the scanned pencil sketch was intended for someone else to colour, but when that didn't eventuate I decided to give it a go, as I really liked the pose.
It was based on a photo of Bettie Page, but I altered a few things to make it more appealing (mainly the flow of her hair, her expression and a slight stylisation of her physique). You can see the photo here- http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c201/CWahl/bpbath6.jpg
Digitally I used Photoshop CS4. The linework was colorised on a separate layer. Flat colours were added onto another. A hard round brush with pen pressure opacity was used for painting. Once the initial painting was done the piece was flattened and the pencils were blended into the paint using the smudge tool with a speckled brush.
I didn't use many layers on this so unfortunately only have limited progression to show (namely the pencils and the halfway point, linked on the post)
AWESOME !!!!!!!!! A fabulous picture of Bettie !
Thanks Andrew!
Damn that's fine.
This is a great picture dude, it's up there with Dave Stevens.
Thanks guys!
Mark- We've gotta catch up one of these days. Been a while.
Great reading your process man, simple stuff and well used. Any time IS a good time for betty.
Thanks Stuart!
Wow...I didn't anyone could make Bettie Page look sexier than she actually looked in real life...but I think you have done it...man, the core shadow tones on her legs (and everywhere) are subtle and gorgeous!
Thanks Ken!
Amazing work on your blog. Kudos!
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