Oil Painting Demonstration: Dragon Sister, 8"x10"

In this time-lapse video, fantasy artist Ryan Pancoast (Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons) paints a new piece for EveryDayOriginal.com.
Dragon Sister, 8"x10" oil on board.
Buy the full demonstration video with narration here: www.gumroad.com/rpancoast
Buy prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/rpancoast
Music:
"Ossuary7 - Resolve"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@billymandalay929]

Love the way you draw with the brush. This is why your paintings do not look diagrammatic, but fleshed out. The way the shadow of the dragon's tail was changed til it looked right, for example.

[@RyanPancoastIllustration]

Matthew, there are a couple answers. A spray fix will prevent the pencil from smearing. But if you mean that you still see the pencil lines in your final painting, here are a few ideas: 1)only draw where you need it. Since pencil are hard to cover up, don't draw things like clouds or fire. If you need to, smudge an idea of them with your finger. 2) add some fast drying alkyd titanium white to your underpainting. This will lighten your pencils and you can start to cover up lines you don't need right away. 3) stay aware of which colors are opaque and which are transparent. 4) better paint will usually cover up pencil lines better than student grade oils. Williamsburg titanium white for instance, is really opaque and good for covering up pencil.

[@mcginnis713]

I think what Matthew was referring to is over time, no matter how opaque your paint, graphite drawn that darkly WILL "float" to the top layer and you will be able to see the graphite lines, may take longer under more opaque colors. Unfortunately fixing doesn't solve that. The only way to avoid that is to draw lightly or draw lightly with a Watersoluble pencil (water color pencil) or draw lightly with a pastel pencil. Either way you choose, you want to make sure that you aren't leaving too much on the surface as it will blend with the paints and muddy it up. Graphite will usually find its way up to the surface layers when under mediums such as alkyd, oil, or even acrylic. A work-around that most oil painters do is do a sketch first on paper. Then using a Gamsol/paint mixture and draw onto your surface. OR charcoal can be used then fixed. For some reason, it doesn't happen to every painting so there are those who consider it an urban myth and will dismiss it.

[@RyanPancoastIllustration]

+mcginnis713 You mention using charcoal and then fixing it. I'm doing the same thing but using a graphite pencil instead of charcoal. I fix the surface with spray fixative. The paint is not muddied by the pencil lines after that. I have paintings over 10 years old that have no visible pencil lines floating to the surface. Granted, in archival time that's not a long time, but it's certainly suitable for illustration.

[@danielnewart]

Finally a new video! I really enjoy these. Thank you for making them. I would love to hear more information about the whole process though. This just feels like a tease. Can't wait for the next one!

[@RyanPancoastIllustration]

Thanks! Yeah it's been crazy busy, and I do a lot of videos I can't release until the products do. So more to come. I have more instruction at gumroad.com/rpancoast, specifically the Blue/white Mage package. But if there is a specific question you have, I'd be glad to try to answer it!

[@marredlovely7548]

Exceedingly brilliant.

[@MrFrancispyka]

lovely painting

[@KevinZamirGoeke]

Keep it up man. Nice to see your confidence growing in every video!

[@shelliingle571]

That's awesome. 😆

[@rociocacerescastillo6170]

Muy hermoso.

[@jacobduncan958]

Just phenomenal.

[@RyanPancoastIllustration]

Thanks! I appreciate it!

[@jacobduncan958]

No problem man! Your work is really phenomenal.

[@PauloHenrique-rt8fv]

"Don't crap on my shoulder"

[@ryanng754]

paint beautiful art everyday can share anyday can why have to share like everyday when is beautiful.

[@GDaCas]

Hey Ryan! I`m seeing a lot of your videos in the last couple o fweeks, I'm kinda obscessed by them! Love your work. Thank you so much for inspiring us! I was wondering how do you choose the underpainting color? Does it have to do with the color palette you are going for or have more to do with the subject of the painting? I usually see you choose a reddish warm underpaint and with this one you went more brown.

[@KatarzynaOleskaArt]

Beautiful painting. Did you have a reference model? Your way of painting reminds me of my way of painting digitally. Changing things from start to finish. I never tried it in oils. When painting traditionally I tend to have a pre- sketch or a model to work from etc. How did you paint this one, if you don't mind?

[@wishiwere]

Your work is so inspirational accompanied by technical exellence on the craft of traditional oil painting, something rare in the illustration field the last years. You have a great mild character that shows in your work making you my favorite traditional illustrator working in oils. Thank you very much for taking the effort into making these quality videos. I was wondering about your color palette, I heard in your interview (One Fantastic Week) that you like working limited but do you use an extended one, or just a limited version depending each time on the needs of each individual piece? Keep up the the great work, the value of your work and your channel here will definetly grow as it deserves.

[@RyanPancoastIllustration]

Thanks! My palette varies from piece to piece but it's usually limited. This one is ultramarine blue deep, burnt umber, yellow ochre, cadmium red deep and titanium white. The blue and the umber together make a nice gray for under painting and can also be used as a substitute for black.

[@wishiwere]

Thank you for replying Mr Pancoast, indeed B.Umber & Ultramarine or B.Sienna & Cobalt blue e.t.c make wonderful chromatic blacks and greys that behave.

[@SirOsitar]

Hi Ryan. Whenever I do an underdrawing in graphite, it finds its way into the paint layers on top. Is this alleviated by the wash you put down first, or is it something to do with the hardness of the graphite?

[@WilliamSmith-fg6wm]

How long did this piece take ?

[@aliceontheinternet123]

how much does your work sell for usually? thank you so much if you reply:D i couldnt findit when i looked you up

[@RyanPancoastIllustration]

+Alice x If you go to Everydayoriginal.com you can see the list of artists. If you click on my name you can see the pieces I've sold and what they sold for. This one was $400.

[@user-vp9jf5yt8n]

How to fix a picture so that it does not flush

[@ryanng754]

people talk rubbish listen rubbish why have to sit beside them don't go out with them anyway if you never enjoy.