Hey everybody, just wanted to post an in-progress shot of a mural design I'm working on, plus a few other sketches. For the mural I got to work with a group of students as well as suggestions from the residents of the building the wall we're doing it on overlooks, and we started with the residents' suggestions of houses and birds, and the kids did a bunch of bird drawings and chose the slogan. I basically worked out the composition and background ideas of with with them, did the clip-art-ifying of their drawings, and added some birds of my own.
I'll post an update with some prelim colors later too! Everyone's stuff in here is great, I may post some in progress comics stuff soon as well!
Mural said:
And to those doing more character based stuff, I'd really REALLY recommend doing gesture sketches. A lot of them. They'll be stuff that teaches your brain proportion control. When you can draw "shape people" that have proper proportion and weight the finishing is almost incidental. This is really counter-intuitive to the beginning mind that wants to see fancy results right away, but pays ridiculous dividends.
I've been trying to quicken/simplify both my "layout pencils" and "finished inks" a lot more by doing fast proportion based sketches that are purposefully loose, then going in and trying to render them out quickly as well, to keep myself from getting precious and also to keep getting faster. Been looking at a lot of Mike Mignola and Cameron Stewart stuff recently too.
Style/Speed Tests said:
