This work-in-progress was painted with Painter IX.

Tools Used:
2B Pencil (Pencil Category) - for sketching
JMG ClumpsyBrush Thick - Custom brush based on Artists Oils’ Clumpy Brush
Flat Oils 30 (Oils category) - for background
Flat Oils 40 (Oils category) - for background
JMG-JCoop Clumpy Brush - Custom brush based on Artists Oils’ Clumpy Brush. Some of it’s settings were provided by a fellow artist: Joel Coop. I further customized it my liking. This is why this brush carries both of our initials.
jmg_Round Camel Hair-hair - Custom brush based on Oil’s Round Camel Hair - for hair
jmg_Soft_Impasto - Custom captured brush actually customized to react or paint as an oil brush.

Paper: Gessoed Canvas
Printable Size: 16×20
Working Size: 10″ x 8″ at 150 dpi

The work in progress of this Digital Oil Painting I am currently working on started on January 23rd (see the Calendar at the top right of this page). You can see the start of this work in progress by navigating to January 23rd from the calendar that appears on the top right of this page, or by selecting Go Earlier or Previous Day from the links at the bottom of this page to navigate to subsequent dates.

I am also recording the whole process as I paint it in Painter IX, showing at the same time my Painter’s selections and options as I go. This video will be available soon after I finish the portrait completely. Stay tuned for further information and availability.

Step 47:
Close up shot so that you can see the brushes stokes and detail.

Step 48:
Finally, I started working on his mouth by adding purples as undertones.

Step 49:
Once I got the mouth dark enough, I proceeded to reshape his beard working on values. This time, I am using the jmg_Round Camel Hair-hair custom brush.

Step 50:
I continue adding greens to his beard and hair to mix them with the bluish-grey tones I added at the beginning.

Step 51:
I zoomed in to better reshape his hair adding also some yellow-green tones.

Tomorrow, I will be posting more work-in-progress images of Solitude II.
Thanks for visiting my Journal.To preview some video clips: Solitude 2 Demo