Dana Amundsen

The Terror painting studies

Date: 11/18/22
Tags: #studies , #polar exploration

a rough digital painting of two men walking in a corridor of ice in the arctic summer.

I watched AMC’s The Terror and took some screenshots to do studies. I’m trying to workout how to render ice and snow, so I’m doing studies each morning. I start with two 5 min, then two 10 min and then a final 30 minute study. This is the best I’ve come out with so far.

I don’t consider myself a true ‘painter’, because I rely very heavily on line. I initialy tried to do just shapes but it wasn’t working out for me, so now I’m trying to hybridize the two by incorporating a sketch into the final ‘painting.’ I am making progress, it’s just frustrating because most of the studies I do look absolutely terrible to me. I guess that’s part of the process.

Reference and timelapse under the cut.

process
an animated gif showing the process of the painting.

reference
a screenshot from AMC's The Terror season 1. Francis Crozier stands in a corridor of ice, while one of his men follows behind him.

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