Summary
Original painting of rapper Snoop Dogg by contemporary artist Bart Carels.
Title: ‘Snoop D.O. Double G’
Artist: Bart Carels
Year: 2020
Description
I don’t do portraits enough, when in fact they can be fun to do. For me they are also one of the hardest topics to do well. It’s very challenging to capture someone’s features well. Snoop Dogg is an interesting character to say the least, and I’ve listened to his music a lot back in the day (still do every now and then). I particularly liked this close-up of him with the sunglasses, braids and yellow beads and decided to make it my painting subject.
Now for the progress. I started with adding a blue background simply because the reference background was a blue sky and I thought this was fine to use. I made the color a bit more saturated though so it would look good together with the beads in Snoop’s braids. Because I think it can be quite hard to capture a person with paint in general, for me it’s even harder to do it in 60 to 90 minutes. This is why I created a line drawing first to make sure every feature was in the right place. I used what I think is called a fineliner (ink pen). This part is not part of the video as it can take quite some time, depending on the detail you put in.
Anyway, once the base drawing was in place, I continued with coloring in the face, hair and just a indication of the t-shirt, using the ink line drawing as my guide. Then I added the lighter parts of the face. I think I used only three or four tones for the face as it’s a speed painting and this is enough to capture the main values. The glasses are not detailed at all, I only put in some very rough strokes and added a couple of highlights.
Now that te main stuff was in place, I added the smaller details like some subtle shadows in the face and highlights of the hair, beads and necklace. Very high level though. I think it worked out well, especially when looking at it from a distance. Hope you enjoyed this one!
Original Painting
- Just one in the world
- Medium: Mixed Media (Ink & Acrylic on canvas)
- Dimensions: 24×30 cm / 9×11 inches
- Color Palette: Cyan | Magenta | Yellow | Black |White
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