Every artist has some role model, someone who's work made huge or small influence ...And it goes from time to time, from stage to stage work is developing, sometimes are several of them being watched, copied, studied..All that in helping and finding out your own way.
Love for Alphonse Mucha in my case goes decade ago. It was crowned with visit to his Prague museum and being able to see his Slav epic. Cycle of 20 large canvases, painted for 18 years but hunting him for a long time before he was able to start work on them.
Way he treated woman beauty, his delicate drawing, ornaments and imagination, but most of all his huge energy is something that made him one of my favorite artists.
This drawing is made under his influence.
Stages of drawing
first one - pencil drawing
Soft Inking with marker pen
Trying colors for hair
Thinking of background colors
More colors, first used wooden colored pencils but added some watercolor markers to make colors more vivid
At the end went back to sharp and bold some lines and colors
This one took longer time than usual, but it was huge joy making it.
Thank you for watching and feel free to leave comment.
If you are not familiar with work of Alphonse Mucha try to find out about this magnificent painter ..
