quick note, to direct readers, if any to: myspace.com/jacobbecher where the slideshows are, again, hosting more, yet new paintings. i’m all tuckered out with Transformers, i think, because i painted all the characters i could give a hoot about. well, except Jazz, anyway. i like him and ironhide, wheeljack…and maybe a few more gen 1 guys (notice the trend?) so i don’t think i’ll be doing anymore and certainly not at that…what? 20 X 19 scale. Starscream was probably the most difficult due to the larger color palette the picture/character demanded. my wife suggested i change the orange sky to green in order to off-set the orange against the red color, but i think i’ll leave it alone. that painting took twice as long as any other and i don’t want to look at it. she says the last one i did of Soundwave turned out best. nice, but hard to believe. i really had to fake body and 3-d.
you’ll notice the spider-woman is a work in progress. indeed, this painting will test my patience because the intent is to capture a more realisitc quality. that is, i am aiming to not outline the picture, unlike all the other paintings, save some of their respective landscapes, without any black outlines. i’m going for a European style like Mobius and i hope you enjoy my first ever attempt to paint without sharpie markers, which have kept me sane and on the straight and narrow. i have to thank my lovely wife for crafting the way we’ve painted hitherto, without her i’d still be a sickening perfectonist and tossing paintings left and right into the garbage (tearing them in half in a fit of rage) before even trying to save the work and try doing things differently for the sake of salvaging art…for art’s sake.
