Grevy's zebra tutorial, all 3 parts :-)

Hi friends!

I just written quite long first part of painting tutorial of the Grevy's zebra model. It has a lot of photos so I would ask you to look at the ready thing I made on my blog (first post on my blog btw)

Here is the link:

http://www.horseandbird.com/blog

And few photos from the first part. I will also inform you all here when the second and maybe third parts will be added.











If you prefer I can as well copy all this tutorial here but I think it would be still quite a lot of work with uploading the images

Also, when some of you will start your paintwork on zebra, please post photos of the process, you can then also ask for additional advices. I will try to help Questions are also welcome

Thank you for looking here

This will be an interesting topic

Indeed!
Great topic of such a beautiful zebra

WOW ! THANKYOU

Glad you like it!
Part 2 is now also ready. There will have to be part 3 in a near future
http://www.horseandbird.com/blog/category/tutorials

Some pictures?  

So close to the finish! Your hand must have gotten tired after all those stripes

It is a great tutorial Anna. You rmodel is so beautifully painted it seems easy to do So it is not only useful but also a great lesson of humility

Thank you very much Anna. Can you tell us the codes of the face and hooves colours? Do you use Vallejo, isn't it?

Thank you for your words LeeAnn, Kiki and Joan.

Kiki, it's not so difficult only very time consuming. I think you should try

Joan, I mixed these colours actually. The hooves' colour is a black with a small drop of brown and grey (or even smaller drop white if you don't have grey paint). The mouth is painted with colour called golden brown, no70.877 with a small drop of "heavy siena" (72154 - game colours) (I think that are the numbers under the name of colour in front of the bottle?) On the top of that colour of mouth I put some grey dry brush. I will still work on it with pastels later on

Ana wrote:

Joan, I mixed these colours actually. The hooves' colour is a black with a small drop of brown and grey (or even smaller drop white if you don't have grey paint). The mouth is painted with colour called golden brown, no70.877 with a small drop of "heavy siena" (72154 - game colours) (I think that are the numbers under the name of colour in front of the bottle?) On the top of that colour of mouth I put some grey dry brush. I will still work on it with pastels later on

Thank you very much Anna

This is great and so helpful, Anna. Thanks!

I'm glad you find it helpful Shawn I will post part 3 possibly yet this week Will you start painting your zebras anytime soon?

Ana wrote:

I'm glad you find it helpful Shawn I will post part 3 possibly yet this week Will you start painting your zebras anytime soon?

I hope to do it in the next month after the holidays! it is crazy busy now and I do not want to rush my paint job--cannot wait to get started though.

It is just fantastic to look at this beautiful animal coming to life in each photo a bit more and more

So beautiful even work in progress Fantastic, Anna

I love how you are doing this, Ana.

It is such a wonderful thing when talented people share their gifts, secrets and knowledge with the rest of the world - without expecting return.

Thank you very muchly.

Thank you for so nice comments Karin, Jonas and Miss Jane! I'm happy to hear you like it!

The last part is coming, tonight

Aaaand... it's ready

http://www.horseandbird.com/blog/category/tutorials

Absolutely gorgeous. Amazing. Love it !!!

Thank you very much Anna. Very useful

Fantastic! Thank you for this, I'll be using it for sure

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