Portrait Plans

To give character of the interior of my bookstore, I've decided to paint 3 author portraits to go along with each of the genres I want the bookstore to specialize in. I'm pretty excited about this, as it will also let me incorporate my studio art major and my love for painting people. So here are the authors:

Fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien

Sci-Fi: Jules Verne












Horror: H.P. Lovecraft












Right now I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to be doing with them--I'm thinking of either incorporating them into a scene from one of their stories, or adding a single more subtle element to the portrait (i.e. a smoke ship coming from Tolkien's pipe, etc) and decorating the frames. I'll probably start the sketching soon, getting materials, and by the end of the semester having a bozzetto for each portrait; this isn't something I should procrastinate on, for my sanity's sake.