"Permission" Illustration walk-through

"Permission" Illustration walk-through "Permission" Chris Knight 2019 This post is a breakdown of how I approached this illustration and an insight into my general process. Every painting ends up taking it's own course and this was no exception, but many of the steps are common to my process. THEMES AND IDEAS "Shrine Guardian" Chris Knight 2018 If you've seen some of my other work you'll know that I love the theme of mysterious creatures in a deep, dense forest doing mysterious and magical things. For my next painting I wanted to continue playing in this world, but with with a different subject matter and slightly different thematic approach. One of my previous illustrations "Shrine Guardian" was the closest thing I've created to Fine Art (as opposed to commercial illustration) in a long time and I wanted to do another piece in that vein. Making a painting with a dryad as the subject matter has b...