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Next I moved on the torso, working in the same fashion as with the arm. Again, the amount of detail available in the reference photos was far greater than would be appropriate for the painting, so I tried to carefully select just those details that would get the job done without going over the top. Even so, you can see there is a lot going on. Here is where the careful and accurate work on the drawing and the transfer really pays off. Since I’ve already figured out where everything goes, how big each muscle is, and how they all fit together, all I have to worry about is color and value…which is plenty…believe me. Not only does each individual form have to turn in space, but the torso as a whole has to appear round.
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After the torso was finished, I continued on to the right arm.
All of the flesh tones were basically dry within two days. I decided to paint the leather straps across the chest and around the wrists, as well as the hair before continuing work on the rest of the figure. I didn’t have any scrap for the leather, and I changed the hair enough from the photos that I basically had to wing it there as well. It took a lithe bit of tweaking and adjusting, but in the end I think it worked out pretty well. This photo is obviously not the best, but you get the idea.
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About Bryan Larsen ~

Bryan Larsen

"I was born on February 12, 1975, and have been drawing as long as I can remember. By the time I was in high school, I knew I wanted to be an artist, although at the time I didn't have a clear idea of how exactly I would use my talents to make a living.

"As I continued studying art, I began to suspect that fine visual art was dead. No one seemed interested in teaching students how to draw well, or paint well. More often than not, my own skills exceeded those of my instructors.

"The only field left that seemed to require good drawing, painting, and compositional skills was illustration, and therefore I began studying illustration at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. I became even more convinced that I had made the right decision in staying away from fine art as I endured course after course of required "drawing" and "painting" classes in which instructors required me to draw with "less focus", or use ridiculous materials such as shellac, glue, sand, salt, etc.

"My second year at Utah State, I met Damon Denys. In discussing Art with him I realized that there were other people who believed that technique and subject matter were indispensable components of any work of art. I then decided that I would work to develop my own painting skills with the purpose of creating artwork that I considered worthy of being called Fine Art.

"Since that time, I have studied on my own: Drawing from live models to learn the human form, studying proper painting techniques from any source I could find ample reason to trust, and developing a philosophy of Art based on reason, and life on earth.

"My goal is to portray the heroic and romantic in human nature and human achievement in a realistic style and a modern setting. I place particular emphasis on composition, technique, realistic detail, proper craftsmanship and consistency of style."