Ego poena proinde Ego sum

Alright I'm finally am getting around to categorizing the progress pictures for what I am working on now. I'm not exactly starting from scratch on this one. I started it a while back and it didn't occur to me to document the progress till after I started. Hopefully there will be many more paintings which I will show from start to finish so for now this will have to do......

Here is where I picked it back up again once i got my studio set up. "Los Luchadores" the wrestlers for those of you Spanish impaired. Oh the title of this post is in Latin just in case you were wondering ( I know pretentious isn't it)

Day 1

Time to break out the brushes.I started by blocking in some dark shadow shapes in the figures.

Then I started to rough in some of the wrestlers outfits.

Then i begin to rough in some of the flesh tones on the fellas.

When I started filling in fat guy number 2 on the upper left side he really started bugging me. I wasn't feeling him at all.

You always struggle with wanting to keep on working on something thinking you will pull it out later on. That definitely happens but there was some basic stuff wrong that homie so I thought it would be better to fix it now cause no amount painting will fix that later.I didn't like the legs on the guy below him so started them again as well........................

Time to bust out the tracing paper.

Still didn't feel right. I got in a redo mood so the little falling guy on the upper right got partially painted over again, it happens. Added some white gesso and started all over on some sections.

The best thing to get over is that fear of making a mistake, you don't really make mistakes in my opinion, you just end up self adjusting through out the process. Sometimes it's less adjustment and other times its more, either way I am always learning from each brush stroke, especially since I am only just getting back into things after a really long break.

It started to feel better, finally, so I began blocking them in again.

At this point I wanted to add smaller figures in the background to add depth so I sketched some in roughly. They aren't going to be as detailed as the ones in the foreground, they aren't the focus, and when I put in the clouds the will be hazy figures anyway.