Unwanted Valentines:
Power Droid / GNK Droid
OK, fellow nerds, it's time again for "Unwanted Valentines"! Alas, Valentine's sneaked up on me this year and I got off to a bit of a late start. Sigh, I had such beautiful plans...
Anyhoo, for this one, it is the Power Droid/GNK Series Droid from "Star Wars". Y'know, the droids wandering around in the background that only say "GONK!" (yeah, yeah, I know there is one being tortured in Jabba's palace that doesn't say "GONK!", no need to correct me). I always thought they were amusing and they hold a soft spot in my heart--and even softer head.
And, while working on this GONK Droid card, I got another idea with the GNK Droid which I'll (hopefully) be posting soon. For now, I have at least one other nerdy Unwanted Valentine to get done... ONWARD!
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STEP ONE: Here are the digital pencils. Originally, I did them with a 9 pt. hard brush on a 1,500px by 2,100px canvas at 300dpi.
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STEP TWO: The digital inks, again, mostly done with a 9pt hard brush. I used some guidelines underneath for perspective and to make sure things were (mostly) square, but I also wanted it to look hand-drawn. So, I didn't bother using shift/ruler tools and the like for the linework, but just drew everything overtop the guidelines. Lots of drawing and re-drawing and re-re-drawing lines until I got them close to right. Bleh.
Well, except for the word balloon. By that time, I was near to the end and just said #$@!! it, I'll just leave the word balloon as a stroked shape and be done with it... :-P
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STEP THREE: Coloring was done over top the digital inks on a Multiply Layer. After it was done, I dropped the resolution down to 200dpi, so the canvas dropped to 1,000px by 1,400px for a smaller upload size. Ta-da!
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Done digitally with Photoshop.
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