Here’s my finished painting of Leon Draisaitl of the Edmonton Oilers. If you’ve been following my work, you’ll know that I’ve never created a ‘sport’s’ related painting ever. That’s about to change as I wanted to try something new, break out of the stuff I usually do and just challenge myself with a different subject. I also decided to experiment with the retro 'pixel stretch' effect to make the painting more dynamic overall. There were a lot of challenges and details to get right with this illustration but I stayed the course, concentrated on one challenge at a time and I’m proud of the finished painting.
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If anyone’s interested, I created a behind the scenes sped up time lapse video of how I developed the painting on my new youtube channel, here’s the link: https://youtu.be/AwAtnV9cOs8
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Are there any other pro athletes that you'd like to see me paint?
