Gary Clark Jr. for Rolling Stone
I did this painting last week for the music reviews section of Rolling Stone. It was a quick turnaround. I was called for the job at 3:00 p.m. last Thursday, and the final was due 3:00 p.m. Friday, the following day.
I truly enjoy every chance I get to paint for Rolling Stone, and I enjoy working with the art directors as well. For me, painting musicians for Rolling Stone is a dream come true, it's something I've always wanted to do.
I really enjoyed my time while working on this piece. Like the "blues", I just went for it, painted with emotion and feeling . . . and over all, my goal was to capture character and mood.
It's not caricature, but just as exciting for me. For me the challenge for capturing a person's essence and character is even greater when not caricatured, and so it's fulfilling for me to paint a piece like this and try to capture what I was seeing in my head.
I enjoy seeing how the work looks in print.
These are a few of my really quick thumbnails. The point of these were to help me come up with a nice framing, or composition and because of my short turn around, it had to be done quickly.
This is my color sketch, working out types of colors that I wanted to use.
This is an earlier phase in the painting that I saved to share some of the block in and process.
Labels: Gary Clark Jr. Portrait, Jason Seiler, Rolling Stone
10 Comments:
Good details even wih so little time to finish it, The face is also in a natural way so that looks real. Good job
this is awesome man and the composition works really well I like how you have the guitar just cut in the corner work perfectlya and the colors/tones really suit the mood
So moody, and feels different from what I am used to seeing from you which I like. Showing that range my man! Well done as always. Hope all is well.
Yeah! This is so awesome Jason! The mood is so nice in this piece. Congrats!! ..and I wish you will have a lot more chances to paint for the Rolling Stone!:) YOU deserve it!
Impresionante Jason, eres mi mesias de la ilustracion. :)
Beautiful.
Always learn from your insight. I like the comment - "inside my head." I need to get more in touch with that. Sometimes I feel like I am exploring without a map instead of visualizing the outcome and using that thought as my guide. Great work as always
Niece piece man, love the colors
This is great! Much more expressive than some of your other work, even without the extreme caricaturization.
Excellent, congratulations master!!
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