Front Line Soldier
Posted on November 18, 2016, in Fantasy || Digital Painting
“Pawns and generals alike fall in battle; war does not discriminate. I can only hope that I am not its next victim.”
Frontline Soldier started out as one of my weekly speedpaints. One day, when a friend and I were looking over my speedpaints, my friend began to suggest additions to the painting. We then began excitedly rattling off ideas for improving it. The final scene that I chose to depict was of a solitary yet defiant warrior, standing over a fog – laden battlefield.
In order to make the soldier more prominent, the background is rendered with large, loose brush strokes. This creates a depth of field effect within the painting, drawing attention to the sharper details on the solider. For colors, I mainly used low – saturation blues and reds. These two colors complimented each other, and their low saturation contributed to the moodiness of the final image. In this painting, I also experimented with different materials, such as the specular helmet versus the soldier’s more diffuse scarf.