Study in brush efficiency and artist study

I want to Study the work of Jakub Rozalski while using the teaching methods of John. J park's brush efficiency. I feel as though Jakub Rozalski's balance of familiar imagery mixed with strange and surreal has the same balance as Stalenhag's paintings who I have recently created paintings based on his method. However I want to explore Rozalski's process of painting and building up and image from start to finish to see if there are any differences between the two or if the only difference is style and theme.  I'll be able to discover more about Rozalski's work method than Stalenhags as he has very kindly showed build ups of his work with bit of text explaining about what he's doing in his paintings and why.

 From the first stage I can see that Rozalski focuses on composition and loosely paints in basic shapes of main focal points such as the people and airships that will be in the final painting. He also gets the main colour pallet down as the main base colour doesn't change much in the finished product. In the notes he also states that he knows what he wants the final image to show and has a clear idea about it.

 At this stage Rozalski has started adding in detail to the airship in the foreground and has started messing about with character scale and placement.

 This is where Rozalski has a decision change. After adding in characters and working further into the air ship he decides the perspective of the ship is too flat and the colour isn't right.

 I was interested to find that Rozalski method of painting people starts with a line drawing for some of the characters. I assumed because he paints in a traditional style like paint on canvas there would be no line drawing at this stage.

 At this point the flat air ship has been removed completely to make the final out come even better. This is something I'd like to keep in mind as personally by this stage i'm hesitant to make such a big change within my own work.
Also the image has been turned into gray scale and for the reason I assume that it's been done to check values at this stage while he's making changes to the piece.

 The pay off is worth it as the overall painting looks more dynamic and visually pleasing.

When seeing the close ups of the finished painting and others like it by Rozalski it was interesting to see how loose some of the paint strokes are but also how efficient they are. This is why I would like to combine two artists in this study. Jakub Rozalski and John J. Park.

John J. Park paints in a similar traditional looking style done in digital and focuses alot of brush stoke efficiency. He also provides video tutorials on how to do this so I can have a clear idea of how to do it and start painting some practice pieces based of the combination of these two artists and my own ideas as well. 

   

Here's a screen shot of John. J parks tutorial talking about different styles and effectiveness of brushes used and the strokes. The third apple is done very controlled and precise. He mentioned how important it was to get the correct stroke and not to just throw them down anywhere but to really think about it and plan it out. This helps to get the painted quick looking style as when it's planned and precise it can be achieved in less strokes as it wont have to be painted over to fix the mistakes.

Using a back image also helps make this style pop as bits of the original background appear through the apple showing the brush strokes more clearly. 

 I want to make use of other tools in my paintings that I feel will work with some of the ideas I have lined up. For example Park uses the smudge tool in different ways that usual to create marks on the canvas that also look like brush stokes and has an interesting way of using pattern stamps to first lay down the background colours of an image to then paint over. A bit like the apple seen in this post.

I feel like these two artists methods would both work really well together in creating an image and style that is familiar to them both but at the same time be different.