Superbia: Process

February 27, 2021

Superbia: Process

During the last few days I took special attention to the sin of Pride. I wasn't sure how I was represent this sin, but my previous research helped me a lot. As I had already mentioned, the sin of Pride is believed to be deadliest sin, since it was the one that made Lucifer revolt against God. Taking this into consideration, I chose to represent Satan with the St. Catherine wheel (the punishement for those who were proud).

This was the final result:

This was the first sketch I made using ink pen 0.8:

This was only to help me visualize what I wanted, however I was not happy the composition so I did one more:

I was very happy with this one so I added colour, using red acrylic mixed with water:

After finalizing a sketch that I liked I started to draw and paint the final piece.

I started by painting the background of black.

The I added the first layers of acrylic but mixed with a lot of water. This layer helped me to understand how the colours were going to look with each other, so that in the next layers I could change it if I felt it was needed.

Then I added some highlights and some other warm colours to the figure.

Then I added some shadows to give more texture to the drawing.

Finally I added other layer in the other elements of the drawing and finish the face of the Devil (eyes).

So far this was the sin that I liked to do the most. I believe that it well contrasted, and has a nice colour palette. For this, I used, as I mentioned before, acrylic and an A2 size paper with 400gsm. I only used two flat paint brushes from the brand Milan: the number 8 and the number 4.

And I used as reference for Satan the following image: