Godzilla prompt: Lets Share Our WIPs and Inspiration!
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@Oana thank you! Yeah I've never really enjoyed the experience of drawing digitally. I love painting digitally but drawing never feels right. Also it's so nice to use traditional media and get away from screens.
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@MarcRobinson Hi, your process is really interesting.I struggle with sketching on the tablet too. Do you print out your sketch and then trace over?
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@Julia-Hegetusch thanks yeah I like a good convoluted process ha. I do all my thumbnails in my sketchbook, then do the drawing digitally in Photoshop (that's the stage I'm at in the image I posted). I then print it at twice the size and draw over it on a light box. I try and add shading and texture with the pencil. Then I scan it in and paint over it in Photoshop.
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@MarcRobinson great thanks for sharing your process . Ill have to invest in getting a light box at some stage
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@Oana Thank you! That’s the idea, the casting call for a Godzilla movie is where my mind is. The next in line is a hopeful stuffed animal dinosaur character trying for the role, but getting laughed at by the two sitting next to him. The TRex is super chill and knows he’s getting it. But because you had to study means I need to flesh this out further. Cranking on client work so hoping I’ll have time to finish this.:)
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@Oana All excellent points!!!
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@MarcRobinson What scanner do you have? I’m thinking of getting an Epson 6700. Need something better than what I have.
Erin Richardson
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@MarcRobinson This is fabulous Marc!!!
️Erin Richardson
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@ArtistErin I have a shockingly average scanner built into my printer! It's A4 size too, so when I want to draw twice the scale I need to print out sections and scan them separately. Like in this image I printed out the humans, godzilla and the background separately to draw over. It's a pants technique but I can't justify buying a good large scanner.
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@ArtistErin hey thank you!
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@MarcRobinson That's brilliant... thank you
Love knowing how you work. I've been following your work and you are really leveling up, I admire this! -
So I scrapped the Casting call idea, and went with mayhem in the classroom. I want to show this teacher, maybe a little inept or brand new to teaching, turns his back for a few seconds and comes back to crazy.
Should I add anything further to demonstrate my story here? Do the elements read well and make sense? Trying to make sure dynamic reads left to right, my orthogonals make sense, etc.
One thing I am wondering about: should I make the focal point bigger and shift it closer to the front of the image?
Thank you!!!
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I'm very unsure if I'll get this finished in time. Sudden house-move with 3 kids in the next week might throw a spanner in the works. I've barely been at the drawing tablet in about 3 weeks. Can't wait to be able to be more consistent with my art, but sometimes life comes first I guess. Massively inspired by Norman Rockwell at the moment if you can't tell
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@MarcRobinson You should do a black ink outline version in case the colored version isn’t done in time so you can post something that will look somewhat finished. It’s really good!
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@kayleenartlover hey thank you. An inked outline style would definitely be quicker. I'll have to see what happens.
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I didn't think to take any screen captures of the final illustration progress, but I thought I'd share my progress through idea generation, composition, and lighting/coloring.
