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.

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)

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! 👋