Post #616386 by Tiki Shark Art on Tue, Dec 6, 2011 2:34 AM

ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!
TikiDaye - Thank you, I'm glad I could share a little of the process with you. Watching the other artists on TC gets my creative juices going, so I'm happy to return the favor. And thanks for noting the lighting. That's what it's all about for me. Dramatic lighting on a tiki... still the base raw driving urge for me to paint TIKI art. I'm sort of painting the imaginary box covers to monster models that never were. I was so taken with Bama's amazing box art on the Universal / Aurora monster models I loved, built, (and later blew up with fire crackers) as a kid, that magical moment is mixed in with my love of modern Tiki Culture.
Chuck Tatum is Tiki - U Rawk!
Here's the next painting... (though I'm gonna work on 3 at once - and bounce back and forth... like the pro's do... (Ken & Big Toe and such)...

While back I did a ink study from a dream I had . It called "Kon Tiki Dream".

I'm playing around with the tiki. I don't want him to be the one in the ink study.

Here is the first rough on the canvas. Still working out the look of the TIKI. That's always a huge step... to get the right "tiki" look... not too cartoony/modern and not an actual historical tiki, but something that's more my own. Cartoon ...sure. But maybe a bit more dignified? It's hard to create that, but a very important part of the painting.. .if the tiki's not "right" than everything else won't work.