Dune (1984) - Chani

Dune (1984)
Chani

Continuing on with the David Lynch "Dune" (1984) series, here's Chani, played by Sean Young.

Ugh, I have to admit, this one really kicked my rear end.  I was displeased with the results most of the time, which lead to me leaving it alone for a while, paint on it a little bit, still found it unsatisfactory, set it aside again.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  I considered just dropping it and going on to the next one, but then thought I'm just gonna power through, even if I have to start over.  Which I more-or-less did a couple times over considering the amount of acrylic I've slathered on this painting again-and-again.

The weird thing is that I think about how for "31 Days of HELL-O-Ween" I was able to crank out 8-1/2" x 11" Acrylic paintings almost daily--some of which I wasn't even embarrassed by--but this one just kept kicking me while I was down.  Ah, well, go figure.  Sigh...

I suppose, in the end, it's OK...  On to the next one!

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STEP ONE: Here are the quick pencils, done on a 6" x 8" gray gessoed hard board.  I should have taken the extra time to make sure the eyes were correct, but I was impatient to get started and figure I'd fix it once I started putting acrylic on the gessoed board.

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STEP TWO: And here is the first pass with Acrylic paint.  Here's where everything started going downhill for a while.  When I saw it, the first thought that crossed my mind was this guy's face sign that shows up on the Internet and it just went down from there...

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STEP THREE: And, after a lot of noodling about, I more or less decided to fix most of the problem and repainted the right-eye and tried to correct some of the worst of what was bothering me, mostly for the better.

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STEP FOUR: After so much more noodling about, back-and-forth, here is the finished painting.  It's... OK.  As always, it looks better in person than scanned in and posted.  (That is one of the advantages of digital art: what you see is more or less what you get, setting aside monitor adjustments and such).  

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Done traditionally with Acrylic Paint on 6" x 8" gessoed hardboard.

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