My Portrait of Taz: Underpainting is Finished

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In my last post, I showed you a picture of the beginning of the underpainting and explained what that was (in short, it's a painting done in neutral tones done to establish shapes and shades, and it will eventually be overlain with the true colors). In this picture, the underpainting is finished. As you can see, the picture doesn't look weirdly blobby any more - it looks more like a black-and-white version of what the finished painting might look like. Of course, even though it recaptures Taz's likeness, it doesn't have any kind of realistic texture or detail - it looks kind of like a graphic, or "posterized" version. See, it wouldn't make sense to add detail, as this underpainting will also get completely covered! I know it seems like a lot of work to do for something that will end up covered by another layer of paint, but it is very useful in the process of creating a fully-realized color portrait. Join me next time when I start to add color back in. It will blow your mind!