So the plan for today is to drop the mallard into Corel Painter and do some color comps, see kids, I do color comps too! I've never painted a mallard before, aside from the 1982 one, but lets not really count that. Anyway, I figured I'd shoot it alone as well as with the Cowboy and we'll see how it goes. I'll post some color comps too so you all can see that process as well.
I did a rough guess on hours spent thus far and I'm going to try to be on top of this from now on. But I figure this project has 32-35 hours so far. Lots still to do. The Cowboy is almost there. He needs his yolk, cuffs and boots to have painted scenes (not sure about those yet) then glitter, scarf, boots and gun rig (belt/holster) are going to be glittered white. I may add bullets to the belt. He's going to have fringe all along the piping, the requisite tin can hands, spurs, and a tiny gold chain with two jump rings to attach the removable gun. And I may work more on the face as well. And finally on him, I am going to paint over the current wooly chaps, then re-glue on another fluffy layer of sawdust. Once all of that is complete, it will all get a coat of spray fix.
The mallard on the other had, well yeah...clearly that needs a lot of work.
And in case you've not figured it out by now, this is going to be a pull toy mounted on a board, kind of like a mini Tournament of Roses Parade Float!!
Stay tuned, I'll keep y'all posted! Thanks for looking!
