Garth Glazier: The Beautiful Line
Why The Beautiful Line?
A site dedicated to the art of drawing and painting, The Beautiful Line is an open forum for the sharing of information and inspiration about the drawing and rendering process in digital and traditional media.
This blog is created for all those who share a love of drawing and are enticed by the potential of a blank piece of paper, canvas, or board to create a unique work of art. This space is dedicated to the open sharing of information and experiences concerning drawing. Included here are tutorials on drawing and rendering a variety of subjects in easily accessible media.
Why the Beautiful Line? As a long time professional illustrator, artist, and instructor, I still believe that the most powerful tool for image making is the simple pencil, pen, or brush. In an era of fantastic advances in digital arts with the power to create new worlds of amazing realism, the pencil drawing remains an exquisitely elegant tool for expressing thoughts and ideas. With this in mind, I view it as a personal mission as an instructor to encourage students to draw their ideas first, before developing concepts within a software program.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Hermione Granger Montage
RUPERT GRINT: Digital Painting
RUPERT GRINT
Another view of Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley. This painting features a rusted door texture and a burlap pattern imbedded into the background paint strokes.
Harry Potter: Severus Snape
Severus Snape: Digital Portrait
I am hunting for unusual photos of the Harry Potter characters that feature strange lighting or interesting expressions. This painting emerged from a low resolution image with Snape in very low light. The hints of cool toneson his face were translated into a blue, green, lavender, and black palette of paint strokes. It took a while to bring him into focus, but I like the final result. The expression on his face and the colors seem to reflect the conflicted nature of his character.
Harry Potter: Ron Weasley Digital Portrait
Just finished this week's portrait. I am finishing up a set of paintings of the Harry Potter characters this month. They have made great subjects for practicing painting techniques. I have been studying the work of various portrait and landscape artists like Jeremy Mann and Jeremy Watts who have very energetic approaches to building color on the canvas. These fine artists are teaching me a lot about getting loose with brush strokes and maintaining an impressionistic attitude toward the subject.
This painting took about 10 hours. 2 years ago if I attempted this it would have taken 20-30 hours and would not have been as strong as a painting. Starting loose and staying loose as long as possible is a big advantage in completing paintings more quickly.
Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne
This painted montage of portraits of Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne was actually assembled as an idea for a portrait study in the summer of 2012 when I was working only in vector. The plan was to do a painting in acrylics. I picked up the rough comp in 2013 and created this finished illustration. The goal was to convey his dynamic personality and the non-stop nature of his daily life as the head of both Fiat and Chrysler.
Digital Painting: 1968 Pontiac Tempest
1968 PONTIAC TEMPEST
Digital Painting: Auburn 8 120 Boat-Tail Speedster
1929 AUBURN 8 120 BOAT-TAIL SPEEDSTER
Digital Painting: 1965 Pontiac Tempest GTO
1965 PONTIAC TEMPEST GTO
Just finished the next painting in my American Muscle Cars series. I am exploring different levels of simplicity in the backgrounds. This painting is the first to include actual textures made by me with gesso and modeling paste.
Digital Painting: 1971 Buick Riviera 1
1971 BUICK RIVIERA
This high view is another angle of the same Buick Riviera rear view already posted. I was experimenting with an overlay of a watercolor wash when this quite meditative looking image emerged. I like to emphasize the lines of the car in my paintings much as the catalogue shots did back in the 1970s.