Son House Portrait
October 25th, 2008
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Painted this morning with mah little Wacom tablet and Photoshop. From a reference photo.
Son House was an influential Delta blues musician, and composed one of my favourite songs – Death Letter. Watch him lay it down.
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Great work brotha! Did you paint that Son House portrait digitally from scratch, or did you sketch it first?
Thanks! Yeah I did it digitally from scratch. I found a black and white reference photo that I kept inside my Photoshop file and painted this larger version beside it.
Painting it at a larger scale makes me feel less like a digital photocopier, although it would be a lot easier to paint a 1:1 scale, since I could just put them side by side and figure out all the dimensions / angles that way.