At Heaven's Door Painting

I finally got around to finishing one project I've been working on for the past couple weeks. The painting is based off of an old drawing I did when I finished my first year at sjsu.

For reference, I searched for images of various Chinese temples such as the Hanging temples of Shanxi and I drew certain elements from the ornaments you usually see on the temple roofs.

The guardian lions are kinda my spin on the Fu dog statues you usually see in front of buildings. I wanted to portray them more like gods...belittling the lone soldier in front of them >:)



Oldddd drawing....with bad perspective lol...


Thumbnail Sketch



Exploring Lion Sketches...



Finalized sketch



Line Lay-in



Value Block-in



Final Painting

Overall, I thought it was pretty fun revamping this old drawing of mine.

-Kevan