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Anyway, here are some work in progress pics. As much as I feel silly posing for the ref, I decided to bite the bullet and give it a shot. Some old pulp cover artist I like used to do this kind of thing, so I figured if it's good enough for them....
Notice my son behind me trying to turn off the light.
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Here's one of him trying to take the toy gun out of my hand so he can play with it ;)
I'm not using the photo as a guide for the drawing. In fact, it was the other way around. I used the old roughs as a guide for what I wanted, had my wife help light me the way I want for the painting, then take some pics. The pics will serve as a tonal guide, and nothing more. Even the colors will be made up later.
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Here's some terrible pictures of the pencils, which are insanely rough right now. I'll tighten them up in the morning, and start painting this in black and white.
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My plan is to then scan it, and add the color digitally in Photoshop mainly to save some time because I have to hand this in quickly.
Wish me luck.
Mike
4 comments:
It's always fun being able to watch an artist take us through the process as he/she creates a page. Please keep us in the loop!
Yeah, fully agree that the evolution of a page/cover is very interesting. If you didn't grab JG Jones 52 Cover book, he talks a lot about stuff like this, varying poses, using pulp references and influences.
Great stuff....now give your toy gun to your son. Let the boy play!!!
Ha! Thanks fellas! I promise to post the whole process from start to finish.
And, yeah, Mikey eventually got his hands on the gat! ;)
Mike
Lil Mikey is a thug is training. You better watch him, he's already snatching gats.
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