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Bryan Coombes ART, and another good thing about gwash, gwache, er gouache is the fact that you can leave the dried paint on your palette for months (years?) and it is still good to use as long as you are painting thinly.
Agree. I actualy know hot to paint like him, no bs and just like him, but to get there i had to leave a lot of suppositions and rules about gouache that i wan't expecting to. It is hard, gouache is not an easy medium , only for people that don't know how to work with it or people that never did. i still would like to see a video of him painting something from star to finish , not just 1 second bits of him aplying a red on to something or a higlight to an already full finished piece just for the sake of the video upload. Form strart to finish: is first pencil sketch, with considerations about what to actually render and what to leave open to the next process, the "grisaille" B&W layer and how exaustive or thin he aplies it, and then the colour and how is that done: glazings , opaque payers, etc- I know that in Mytology and Marvelocity we get a sequence of his work process, but let me tell to the people that thinks that that is enough for a person that really whant to learn and know is process well: it isn't, at all. Evn so, i am a super fan of his work.
I never look at an Alex Ross cover and think about what media was used. More often then not I just stare and wait for my thoughts to start processing again.
Needs More Subs When he’s using acrylics, water colours, oils, pencil, when he’s painting over his own drawing, when he’s doing it over somebody else’s, when he uses live models and references, when he gets it right just from memory, etc. I can’t avoid thinking about all of that at all.
His art is amazing. I love his comics because again the artwork is phenomenal, but the story writing is genius and serious. They operate on multiple levels! Genius
You are such a unique and amazing addition to the already amazing art of comics! Followed your work in comics for years and I'm constantly amazed at the level of your talent!
You make just beautiful artwork! The compositions in this video were dynamic and compelling. I'd like to see you begin to do tutorial videos, along with work-in-progress videos.
I can can relate. I'll worked with water colors in a very backwards way. I treat the medium very tight with a lot of control and not loose. Over time I realized I was doing it wrong but I was getting the results I wanted so i never stopped. I also noticed I didn't like depending on the white of the paper to always be the white that you see, sometimes I wanted brighter colors so I started using Gauche to add a cleaner look that I couldn't get from the slightly muddiness of just water colors.
James gurney used gouache for plein air painting....its so versatile in its purpose..for daily practice (doesnot dry, stays wet in palette), can do real paintings for frame (saw artists exhibiting gouache at exhibits), play and learn colour mixing, practice brush calligraphy, illustration as in this video, excellent for plein air opaque painting...so on..
gouache is my favorite paint. i think it looks the best, and it's pretty easy to work with. i like to use it in combination with color pencils and pastel.
@Alex Ross u the Best on ya Artwork ... I'm fascinating with ya work ... I'm an cartoonist as well .. the Voltron the Gatchman ( Battle of the Planet) came right out the cover n pages as well
Just fantastical!!!! You embody the Comic Universe in a way that is mesmerizing.. The Marvel Universe is by favorite, but anything you draw/paint I would show on my office wall. Let me know if you have anything you are going to toss in your garbage bin and I would gladly hang on my wall. Keep up the great work Alex.
Anybody knows what he means by painting backwards? heard him talk about going from light to dark in other videos which seems contrary to other painters like Rembrandt.
Hi, Alex. I gotta say that I don't like too much the super hero stuff, but between all my library, that has almost no pajama kind, I have one of the most precious treasures for me: MARVELS You and Kurt Busiek nailed it 👌👌👌
The fact you r not recognized as one of the bests artists of the 20th and early 21st century is mind blowing the the emotion you portray in your art and how it makes me feel as a viewer is indescribable
@@johncollado1151 he mentioned in an interview dabbling with it a little but he doesnt like it. I dont think his work would translate well into digital
@@trahapace150 I'm a traditional painter myself who has gone to digital, not sure if it works that well in the other direction. Though I can apply a lot of what I've learned traditionally to digital, it's a different ball game going digital to traditional I would think. The nice thing with traditional is that you have an original piece of artwork after it's all done.
There are those who live in the Superheroes' stories- comics or movies. And there are those who live in the artworks. To have lived in the time of Alex Ross...
None of my teachers recommended gouache for much more than color studies & preliminary work. By then , as Alex says , it must have fallen out of broad usage among illustrators. I only really learned to paint with it by looking at original art by vintage illustrators.
Art schools deserve no credit. Alex Ross and all other artists learned themselves everything they know. Everything we do in art schools, we can do at home on our own.
Phntm27 - All depends on who's doing the airbrushing. There are many examples of "realist" paintings by airbrush artists that don't scream "airbrush" in the way that you are probably thinking.
Gouache is just watercolor with white mixed in? Noooooo. That's called "filling" and quality gouache has no fillers. What makes it gouache is the higher pigment load and less fine grind than watercolor. Density creates opacity. Yes, cheap, poor quality gouache opacity is created by adding white pigment or even chalk fillers (why some call it "chalky".. that's poor quality gouache only.) Okay for sketching I guess but its beneath even good student quality gouache which still doesn't add fillers but has less pigment load and therefore is less opaque. Edit: I know this is old but people beginning in gouache will still be viewing and didn't want to leave that misleading statement stand.
A little surprising that a guy who has used gouache for decades doesn't actually know what it is.. a gouache isn't just watercolor with white or fillers. He's describing cheap off brand gouache, or arts and crafts gouache. Real gouache, as used in the old days by JMW TUrner and still produced now by Holbein etc. is simply the same as watercolor although far far more pigment per gum arabic medium, and an emphasis on naturally opaque mediums like cadmium's.
