ROY BATTY

9"x12"; India ink and acrylics on watercolor paper

Continuing my movie theme (and now my second piece connected to Rutger Hauer), I did Roy Batty from 'Blade Runner'. Aside from a couple of reference shots, I really made very little concession to keeping the likeness. In fact, after laying down my initial pencils for this, I put the reference aside and went with my own recollection of the scene. This was a lot of fun and educational for me in terms of process.

Speaking of, here are a few process shots I scanned:

1. I started by emptying shavings out of my lead holder and scrubbing them into the paper with a paper towel to establish a shadow. I picked out lighting with a kneaded eraser. Then I laid down the linework and indicated spot blacks. Lastly, I took a colored pencil and put a tone around the usual places to be worked over later in the painting.

2. Next, I filled in my spot blacks.

3. I skipped a few process shots as i was getting into the painting. But I started the color with laying down the blues. Next, I washed some Process Yellow to start establishing skin tone and throw some light onto the body inside the hole in the wall. Then, I washed Process Magenta to mix with the Process Yellow to finish my skin tones and bring my colored pencil tone from earlier.

I mixed some Process Yellow and Titanium White together in increments to starting blasting the scene with highlights and start on Roy's platinum-blonde hair. I placed a light touch of Pthalo Blue in the eyes and mixed a red from Process Magenta and Process Yellow for the Replicant reflection in the pupils. Then i took a razor blade and scratched up the tile and some of Roy's face.

Lastly, I noticed that there was still too much of the yellow showing on the highlighted side of the face. So I blasted it with highlights of pure Titanium White and called it done.