Taking Will and Neil Gaiman's advice and making art!
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Just watched Will's latest video and the Neil Gaiman speech he recommended in it and felt inspired to make some art, my art! This is a sketch from a book idea I've had for a long time, so it felt good to take one of the thumbnails and flush it out.
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So sweet...makes me want to know what they're looking at!
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Nice! It's going to be fun to see where this one goes! I really like the stylization of your characters, and the warmth in the image. You also show the difference in age between the kids in a really nice way with the proportions, I always find that difficult without making them look alien
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Awesome, really loving your characters. Looking forward to seeing it finished.
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Oh that's a really interesting concept. I definitely see this working as an illustration. Do show when you color it.
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Really Beautiful! Must listen to Neil's speech!
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@natiwata Seriously nice drawing! - i feel like they are cloud watching and sharing what they are seeing - great moment
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Thanks everyone for the encouraging words!
@Kevin-Longueil That is exactly what I had in mind!
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@natiwata This is an amazing sketch! If I could put more than one like, I would! Can't wait to see the final version!
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Render pass!
Nat Iwata
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@natiwata Its looking really good. The only thing i notice is the one boy that is pointing up, that shadow under that arm looks like it wouldn't fit with the direction of the light coming down.
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Yeah I do notice the same with the shadow for the boy pointing in the sky. But good work.
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@Chip-Valecek Yeah I think you're right, I hate doing shadows like this I always struggle to figure out how exactly they would be cast from odd shapes and different angles. Just changed it on the pic.
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Beautiful :"(
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I love your lines. and the way you manage to keep those delicate pencil lines after coloring. I struggle with that... could you tell us more about how you do that?
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@audrey-dowling Thanks! I usually do 3 main steps for this type of drawing.
1.) I do a super loose blue line sketch. I use blue not because it's trendy or going in a copier, but because the final drawing shows a lot easier on top of it.
2.) I reduce the blue sketch opacity to about 20%, then make a new layer and do my final drawing on top of that. When done I turn off the blue layer and set the final sketch layer to multiply, this allows me to keep the drawing on top at all times while I paint underneath.
3.) I make a new layer under the final drawing layer and I start blocking in colors and render things out. To keep the pencil sketch alive but not make it overwhelming I just play with reducing the layer opacity until it's where I want it.
Hope this helps!
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thanks nat!
so you keep the pencil drawing layer on top of the color ones? mine is underneath (in multiply mode too), I'll try it your way next time
