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Dr. Manhattan - AHybsier

Artist: A. Hybsier (All)

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Title:	Dr. Manhattan - AHybsier
Artist:	A. Hybsier (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	Sold
Views:	4,491
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	7/24/2013
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This one has a bit of a write up in regards to colour choices and technique. If that interests you, read on. If not, tadaaaa, Dr. Manhattan.

First off the scan is off because yellow is a freaking pain to scan. With this piece I wanted to do something slightly different. Given that Doc Manhattan is this really intense blue it was pretty clear pretty early on that I would do the background in an orange / yellow scheme. I wanted this to read really graphic. Now I have this thing where I love to add very intense and wonky colours into the reflected light. I use a lot of magenta and aqua and pink for that, even with characters where you don't expect it. I tried not to do this with this piece. I also normally try to pull some of the foreground colour into the background and vice versa. It's something I learnt and it just makes sense to unify the painting.

Why am I telling you this? Because this is one of those pieces where I felt I needed to break the rules. There's no blue in the background. There's not even violet (which I usually use in shadows, even just a little), in fact the darkest colour is a red (carmine to be specific). I did pull the oranges and yellows into the figure because I wanted the background to affect him, not just storywise but from a painting side. I did however avoid pulling extra colours into his skin. There's no aqua, it's all basically just 3 blues and violet with a touch of white. It was a challenge to get the vibrancy into the piece that I usually get by just hitting the shadows with a red or pink or some other unexpected colour. But I wanted this to be about design. I wanted this piece to be about complimentary colours, about a blue vs orange. I wanted Dr. Manhattan to glow and even though the background is busy, I wanted him to dominate.

Long story short, I tried something different. I like the way it turned out. Plus, Dr. Mantattan is just cool

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	A. Hybsier
Joined:	April 2003
Last Login:	August 2025
Website:	http://www.ahybsier.com
Country:	GERMANY
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Foggy Bottom
Member Since 2009
Forum Moderator

Posted on 7/24/2013

Baller.

A. Hybsier
Member Since 2003

Posted on 7/24/2013

Foggy Bottom wrote:

Baller.

you know, your comment almost makes me wish I had done the no speedos version =P

E DLS
Member Since 2005

Posted on 7/24/2013

Interesting insight about the yellows. Must be why Nowlan has issues with that color. As far as the pants versus no pants issue, I for one am glad you covered up his naughty blue bits. I know some purists may disagree, but I don't think I really need to see his glowing blue you-know-what. LOL

A. Hybsier
Member Since 2003

Posted on 7/24/2013

E DLS wrote:

think the issue is that the scanners use really intense light and if you are using a lighter yellow it just gets completely overpowered and washed out. My scanner isn't the top of the range 3 grand type so you actually end up losing quite a bit of information. I am still trying to configure it all properly but yellow is a pain to scan if you are staying in the lighter values

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