Hey it's been a while. Remember me? haha. Anyway, thought I'd share with you guys some stuff I've been doing.
Album cover design for Advertising Illustration class:
Drawn by Damien Scott, colors by me:
Not crazy about the last panel. This was for Andy Kubert's class:
I forget the artist's name. The Walking Dead dude, colors by me:
Action figure packaging design. Digital color over scanned pencils:
100% Digital Silver Surfer drawing (just for fun):
And just because I can, the process!:
A breakdown of the steps:
1. A frantic gesture drawing. When I draw I like to kind of build it on the page. I started with a basic line of motion where the spine is and just kind of keep scribbling until it's basically the shape I want.
2. I love computers. Oh man. forget lightboxes and erasers. Just dropped the opacity of the gesture layer and drew the 'finished pencils' on a new layer! The really cool thing about this step is that once it's drawn I can go in and fix any proportion problems I may have had with the transform tool. I adjusted the head, the size of the hands, the abs got tweaked, and I redrew his right arm like 10 times before I got it to a point that wasn't ******ed-looking. The pecs and collarbone also got redrawn a few times.
3. Digital 'Inks'. This is a pretty time-consuming stage that requires much patience. I think I still prefer traditional inking, but the end result is largely the same.
4. Flat color added so a selection can be made of it and I don't accidentally color outside the lines.
5. A background tone is added so my eyes don't go crazy and so I can see better how the colors will relate to each other. The beginnings of rendering and the secondary light source is also added.
6. Background gradients, highlights, more rendering, color tweaks, all the little fun bits and lastly the signature and it's done!
