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bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [1/x]

I figured it'd be fun to share the whole process that goes into making a painting a custom scene. could be useful to some, and entertaining to others :)

👩‍🦱 ~ EVE & ADAM ~ 🧔‍♂️

as you all know, I'm a deeply religious person 🛐 so..

the scene: we're in the garden of eden. adam is eating apples from the forbidden tree, because of course he is. eve is having none of his shit, grabs an unfortunate unsuspecting nearby serpent, and is about to whip the shit out of adam. 🐍

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵2d ago

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [2/x]

so, we're gonna need reference photos. I want eve to be in the process of swinging the serpent around; so then I figured a baseball batter would be a good fit.

so wading through the AI slop, I found this actual photo that has a nice pose and good lighting.

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵2d ago

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [3/x]

I want adam to be in a protective stance, while also holding a forbidden apple, and all this, seen from the side/back. also, the lighting has to come from the same side as the batter. so all and all, it's pretty hard to find a proper reference pic for this, so I am posing for this one myself.

took about 20 pics with slightly different in stances etc., and decided on this one. (the right hand is going to hold the apple)

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵2d ago

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [4/x]

now for the fun part, combining these images into a coherent reference scene.

notable caveats:
- eve has natural lighting, while I'm using an indoor light for my photo.
- also i forgot to switch off a second, smaller light coming from the kitchen counter on the left - so I gotta paint my left side a bit darker than it is in pic
- the color temp / contrasts of the two pics are way different, so I color-edited a lot to bring them together a bit more.
- the baseball batter is photographed using a tele lens, so she has less perspective than my pic. I gotta correct for that manually while drawing/painting.
- she is rotated/looking a bit more to the left than is desired, so I also need to correct for that while drawing/painting.

finally, I added a grid, which is going to come in handy in the next step!

but first, time for a break - not sure if I'll continue later today, or later in the week, so see ya when I see ya! thanks for tuning in to painting with bazkie! 👋

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [5/x]

so, now we draw the same grid on paper; as in, the right amount of cells and cell size so that we can easily translate the reference image to paper :)

(this photo was pretty hard to make lol)

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago

painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [6/x]

draw the rest of the owl

note that I drew eve's hind leg a bit higher to correct for the perspective thing, and rotated her head a bit to the right so she's looking at adam

drew adam's bum a bit too low 🤔 we'll fix that in post

having a friend over in a bit, and a busy day tomorrow, so we'll continue on thursday with the sketching of some trees and foliage!

Vinnie (any)1d ago

@bazkie a cardboard box with a strategic hole and your nose to press the buttonn for the camera? 🤔😂

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago

@greenWhale ahaha close! no I put on a 5 second timer and held it between my chin and chest :D

ʞuᴉԀ ✅1d ago

@bazkie I once wrote a simple phone camera app wrapper just so I could have a 30 second timer on it, as the normal 4-5 seconds in most camera apps wasn't long enough to enable me to actually get in place for the photo.

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@bazkie Have fun with the painting

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵2d ago

@cheeseburgerally thank you! 👩‍🎨

@bazkie is it an lsd-blotter?

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵2d ago

@pty lol 😵‍💫 ..sure!

@bazkie 🌈 🛸 💫

@bazkie Interesting. Thanks for bringing us along through the process!

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵2d ago

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cheeseburgerally

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@bazkie god bless bazkie

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵2d ago

@cheeseburgerally

ʞuᴉԀ ✅1d ago

@bazkie Thanks for the thread, always nice to see someone's behind the scenes process.

bazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵1d ago

@PeaEyeEnnKay 🙏