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I have had a canvas lying around my flat for ages and when I say ages I mean ages!  I had started a sketch on it last year but it didn't look great.  I tried rubbing it out but even though it was in pencil it still left a mark so I stuck it round the side of the sofa and forgot about it.

One night I was round at a party and we were discussing topics I could use for my next artwork.  One of my friends brought up a number of movies and Terminator was mentioned.  It was only in passing but it stuck in my head.

The Terminator character would be the ideal subject for the canvas.  How so?  Well in my mind an image of Arnie is always set in a dark background with a spot of light to show the figure.  I also wanted to try a new technique where I would color the whole image with maybe two or three primary colors.

I started by again trying to rub out the figure I had on the canvas.  Once I had done that there were still some pencil marks but I powered on.  I drew in the figure of the Terminator basing it on the Arnie figure from Judgement Day.  I kept it very basic and outlined any shading.

I then added the first color.  Bright blue. This would mainly be on the leather jacket and his hair with a bit on the side of the face.  I then left it for the night.

The next day I really wanted to beef it up a bit,  I wanted to do the flesh of the face and I wanted to use a rich color to contrast the cold blue.  What better than red?  It was coming together and was looking like the Arnie Terminator from my childhood.  (Yes I know I shouldn't have been watching it as a kid but who didn't?)

Now that I had the likeness down it was time to add the black.  I had to have faith that by just leaving the odd line of white then the gun would look okay.  Luckily it did.  Also leaving white on the fave helped with the definition

So that was it.  After a few finishing touches I was done and received an offer for the work within a few hours of it going on Facebook.  Just goes to show that in art there is no such thing as a lost cause!

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