Goya Gorilla crossover, scrapped aye aye project

Hey guys, little update on the Aye aye project.
Im not longer doing an aye aye, i scrapped that idea

Yes i scrapped my Aye-Aye and restarted.
Painting not by Goya but a paintin of Goya by Vicente López y Portaña

and this is the reference pic, i think its a near enough match lol

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I learnt when doing my Aye Aye to study the skull first and understand their skeletal system and muscle structure compared to my own. SO i used a bunch of reference images rom books to sketch from and draw human skulls next the them so i could relate the proportions (i apologise in advance my scanner is a heap of junk. im trying to save for a new one)


I noticed you can see Goyas hands in the painting so did a couple of hand studies too


Then unlike my Aye aye a gorilla was alot easier to find a local zoo i could go too to draw one from. SO here are some sketches of him


Got some of his face as he did different stuff like eat and call to his troop. These are prob a bit scribbly cause did these quick to capture the moment a bit. I was so happy he was awake and quite active. when i visited the zoo before he was asleep lol

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Ive put the painting and the reference together and got this:


After a few days away from this project i decided i wasnt happy and redrew the gorilla
I took a similar approach to drawing the face, (draw the skull, then muscle and skin layer) by drawing the gorillas body and then doing the suit on top fitted to his proportions

I went back up the zoo with my reference pic of the painting. i did do a few more studies and managed to sketch the gorilla in as similar a pose as i possibly could


I then used photoshop to layer the painting on top of my sketch and used the warp tool to get the clothes to like they were fitted around the gorillas body (to the best i could anyway)


I then used this as a reference picture and draw the suit so it looked more normal on top of my gorilla sketch and got this


Which is what im going to work from and start painting. Prob a bit of a long winded process but imo i think it looks more like the gorilla is wearing the suit rather than just replacing goyas head with a gorilla. Gorillas have huge muscles and massive shoulders, especially in comparison to a humans. Not sure if its better than my first sketch but seems a little more believable to me :)

I did redraw the right hand to a better position that matched the painting more.
Ill prob make the hands more meaty and more gorilla like in the painting process as they still look a bit too human for me

Im still not happy, it looks a bit squashed so im going to draw him again
keep checking back for more news on this :D

Peace
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