by Len Cochrane
Materials: ent Qinciderone red, Paynes Grey, Cerulean Blue (transparent
Reference Photo, Iwata Hp-b (XG), Golden Fluid Acrylics...(heavily colors are mixed from an approx 20-1 transparent extender or
thinned to spray with airbrush between 12 and 25 psi), Trans- water and golden fluid acrylics), Sakura electric eraser and draft-
parent Raw Umber Hue, Transparent Shading grey , Tanspar- ing ink erasers., 20” x 30” Bainbridge 80 illustration board.
First thing I do is a very light rough sketch Next I go back over the tiger this time Continuing on I add rough freehand hair-
of everything in the painting using trans- roughing in the tigers stripes and any lines to the fur in the ears stripes. At this
parent shading grey (20-1 transparent dark areas. It is very important to keep point detail isn’t important I just try to
extender and carbon black) your layers as thin as possible or adding roughly shape in the dark parts; the back
If you look at the lower left side of the the eraser marks in the next steps will be shadowy layers of the tiger.
painting you will notice a dark streak of very difficult.
paint that I will blend into the painting as
I work along.
After giving the first few layers of trans- Working around making sure to continu- After a few hours of erasing I finally finish
parent shading grey time to dry I begin to ously follow the natural direction of the the first layer. As I work outwards from
un-airbrush or highlight erase and texture tigers face. Highlight out the long wispy the tigers face I try to soften the eraser
the fur with a battery operated electric hairs on the cheeks and ears using long marks to give the appearance of depth.
eraser and drafting ink eraser refills.Mak- strokes with the sharp edge of fresh eras- On the left side I don’t put any eraser
ing sure to follow the natural direction ers and use little dagger type strokes to marks at all and on the right side they are
of the fur I work from the face outwards simulate the shorter hairs on the fore- scattered and subtler, less sharp than the
overlapping the layers of paint with high- head and chin. ones on and around the tigers face.
lights from the eraser. The first layers us-
ing eraser techniques usually take the lon-
gest. In the later layers you just maintain
parts of or all of the eraser marks from
the first layer.
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