A rough sketch of Elvis in the 50’s. I’m not satisfied with the shirt. I’ll have to dive into Elvis’ closet (books) once more to look for something else. Maybe also a jacket with a bit more color. Visits:669 Total: 138333 Follow
I made a quick rough sketch of the “Seventies Elvis” with the outfit I decided on earlier. I need to make some more studies, light, folds and creases and the puffy sleeves. Visits:565 Total: 138333 Follow
I made a new montage in Photoshop. The heads are the ones I’m going to use. The skin colors are not OK but that doesn’t matter for the montage. Visits:214 Total: 138333 Follow
These clothes I want to use for the “Seventies Elvis”. Elvis wore this shirt and belt in 1970 during rehearsals for the movie “That’s the way it is”. Visits:258 Total: 138333 Follow
These clothes i want to use for the “Fifties Elvis”. Elvis wore this outfit in January 1956 during record sessions in New York. Visits:309 Total: 138333 Follow
Today I made some pictures for a temporary lay-out of the painting.I made a very quick montage, just to see what it looks like. The clothes are not the clothes I’m going to use on the painting, they are from the different periods. The heads are also not definitive. The proportions are o.k. The background
The first step is to scan some pictures of a standing Elvis. On that scan i put on lines for the proportions that i can transfer to the photos of my model and adjust it in Photoshop. Visits:224 Total: 138333 Follow
For a while i’m thinking about a big painting, 80 x 120 cm, of 3 x Elvis. I don’t want to use 3 pictures from books or the net but make photographs of a model in different positions. After that I’ll have to find pictures of Elvis clothing from the fifties, sixties and seventies to
