Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Woot woot, robot done, now onto the background, foreground and underground!

Monday, October 22, 2012



Making some progress on the Robots of Doom project.  Spent all day and evening Saturday working on this new illustration and writing a book version of the story to pitch at a children's publishing conference in a few weeks.  That's right, a whole book!

This illustration process could use some explaining. I first did a wireframe sketch of the robot in Photoshop because it's so  much easier to build circles and ellipses and move them about to get them right. Then I printed that out, did some pencil shading on it to get my light and shadows where I want them. Then I slipped that under some tracing vellum to render the line art with a Dark Brown Prismacolor pencil. Then I scanned that, cleaned it up and imported it into ArtRage to color with it's watercolor brushes. There will be an entire scene with a street view and crows on a wire, but I'm doing the entire illustration in layers for maximum adaptability.