Collision Course: Final

And here is the final version of the illustration I started in the last post:

It had been a while since I had not touch my acrylic paints, so I'm very pleased with how this image turned out. And as usual, I have some closeups for you:

Made with acrylic paints on watercolor paper.

Collision Course: The progress so far

Here are some images of the progress of my new illustration.

First of all, I tried different colors for the big sea monster. This step was made in photoshop:

Then I printed my pen drawing in a bigger size, and transfered it on watercolor paper. This was followed by the underpainting made with Burnt Umber acrylic paint:

As you can see I've added two little friends to the little penguin for additionnal storytelling elements.

And fast forward a little bit, here's where I am right now:

And now, back to work!

Collision Course

Here's a fun little pen drawing I've made today. It was quite relaxing to do.

Pen on paper.

Curiosity

Here's a drawing for which I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to do. It was fun to just explore different ideas for the characters, however it also involved a lot of erasing, which doesn't make for a very clean drawing. Also, I really didn't succeed with the guy's pose. I'll probably color it sometime in the future.

Mechanical pencil on paper

The Star Inker

She flies in the sky at night, drawing stars with her magic feathers.

The idea of this character came from an idea I had a while ago, but up until now she only lived as a rough sketch in my sketchbook. Unfortunately, I kind of failed her right arm. It doesn't look right to me and I can't seem to be able to correct it. Oh well, things like that happens sometimes.

Mechanical pencil on paper

Gothic Voodoo Girl

Here is another character concept I've made:

Mechanical pencil on paper

Futuristic Swordswoman

Going back to traditional drawing made me realise how much I started to depend on Photoshop warp/transform tools to make my artwork. I think that the result is not quite right, but I do like the overall design:

Mechanical pencil on paper