While it might not look it on first glance, this was a big experiment. I took a photo, notched the placement of all the major details then warped the crap out of that exceedingly basic sketch to see if the likeness would hold. And it did. Sure, I could have just caricatured it, but that's not really the same thing. Once I'd warped the placement, I drew the details, inked it and proceeded as normal. I'm pretty happy with it. My partner doesn't like the washed out colors, but I'm still thinking in a woodblock print kind of way. Perhaps I should play with that next.
That is a good likeness! The colours look fine to me, the lightness doesn't stand out as being out of place to my eyes.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of trying to do scratchboard type images digitally. I used to to them quite a bit in high school and now and again later on. I have drawn white on black in newer stuff but only in small sections of something, never as the sole technique. I could just reverse the image colours I suppose but I think you look and produce a very different image when you drawn white on black instead of the normal way.