first a very quick sketch in black and eraser (white BG)
the sticky-outy things are silhouetted dead trees found on google
Further white erasing and new leg positions - the goal here is not really define a light source but to cut in forms that are important.
finally adding in the girl and BG which is just a cloud brush. at this point it's almost ready for a more delicate touch on the erasing.
once it's refined a little more (never actually painting in greys only blacks and erasing white i'll grab a few images off of google, eg: http://theorganicartist.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/ancu.jpg http://nstockham.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/photo-water-colour.jpg and chop out bits of them and paste them all over it in places here i kinda like and then try out different layering methods to get a new and cooler colours. from there I'll be clone stamping with spacing off...
You can always crop this, but just watch you composition. Right now it sorta looks like she is telling the monster to go fight a tornado. Which would be really cool, if that's what you want to do. Mr. Sugglekins is completely on the left side with the girl in the middle leaving a very wide open area to the right.
ReplyDeleteI remember talking about this with you too, and you have a very cool way for developing your digital paintings. I can't wait to see this when you start really refining those plains.
As far as the creature side of it goes, you might want to answer some questions about what this creature is and what it does. Right now it's really random as a giant man tree. Like what is it's behavior like? What does it eat? Where does it sleep? Where did it come from? Things like that to get a really solid creature and is crystal clear. If it's a pet, then explore that side of it too. How does that girl feed that thing? What sort of world do they live in? What do they like to do together? How did she adopt such a thing?
You're paints are frigging cool, and I love how you can get the design you're imagining in your head so clearly down on paper, I just think you're concept needs a little refining.
Also that is a wickedly sick cloud brush? Where do you find your brushes?
Otherwise, cool beans. Mr Snugglekins creeps me out. But I think that is the point.
thanks trav - i find brushes by searching on google - for the clouds i searched cloud brushes
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