Tuesday, June 26, 2012

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY: "SPACE"

Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space.
© David Turner. All rights reserved

9 comments:

  1. Beautiful light quality. This is really cool!

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  2. The texture in this is really nice

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  3. Very nicely done!

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  4. This is great! Lovely use of lighting... nice work.

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  5. Very eerie... I wonder what he's thinking?

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  6. another nice one Dave, I like the choice of off-blue for the reflection on the helmet, and the textures throughout really do a job on the mood of the piece: stoic and apprehensive.

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  7. so nicely executed. you handled the light beautifully! brave guy, I'd say!!

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  8. Wonderful portrait! I would love to know the size and media that you used. Fantastic light and shadow, and lost and found edges.

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  9. Thanks for the positive feedback everyone!
    Sally, the piece is 14 x 12 inches, painted in oil on gesso-primed MDF, (medium density fiberboard).

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