sepia sketch

This if hte first sketch for my dads photo. I have shot new referance for this project as well. There will be either no skull at all or have it behind the hands/pipe. There is also the possibillty for a hawk, wolf and moose coming from the smoke but i'll sort that out eventually as for the compositional aspects.

finish 1

ok, its still being clonestamped and such but here is the pretty much finish of the frog. I agreed with Nate that it still feels slightly controlled in the water motion and doesn't maintain the same fluidity as the Goose. I had screwed up in making a bubble around the frog and fly which ticked me off after I look at it knowing that I had played it "safe" with the vignette so to speak. It is what it is...

update

This is a near finish of the frog renderring as I have yet to still finish the back ground as well as the fly to be put in the upper left corner very small and in flight toward him. The pencil line around the area is to indicate where I will fade out the gren wash into hte white for the vignette effect along with the pattern. Also posted is a photo referance of my father, who is a medicine man that I plan to draw out in colored pencil either black and white, or a monochromatic sepia-toned drawing. rom this referance I will take out the background of the room hes in, however im still trying to figure out what else to do with that corner or to just have it an ambient space of some sort. I will have a couple sketches put up in a couple hours when i get get some kinks worked out in the scanner. The frog just needs the lighter values and high lights on it and I will have it completely finished this evening.