Rough and primative styles always provide strong feeling. All free hand painted from scratch.
1. All I have in mind is a basic simple standing pose of a barbarian. So first just block out simple shape and the general color of the atmosphere
2. Here's a not so good sample of finishing some particular part to 90% (I mean the background). When doing a fast and settled paintings, it's best to keep overall progress at the same level. To paint anything, it always starts from rough to detail, your brush size should be big to small which means details is always the last stage to do.
3. I admit that I don't do things as how it's supposed to be done, because many times when I wish to find the excitment of the piece, I would just detail out the head or the area of focus point first to get the strong feeling of the subject. In order to pop out the main subject, you can use either color, detail, and/or push up the contrast to do it. Since I have the shape in dull green, now I'm gonna use a bit saturated dark red as the darker tone, and cold blue as the lighter tone, because the color in different value acts kind of opposite to each other, cold aginst warm, or dull against vivid. Colors will pop out to each other.
4. The right side of the painting seemed empty, so I added a wolf to balance off the whole composition.
5. Add some visual effect-particle to enhance the mood. Filter sharpen is also used. FINAL
Enjoy~
