MERRY SITHMAS!
I thought I was super-clever when I thought of "Merry Sithmas". Well, as usual, it turns out most people are much quicker than yours truly, as it was already a thing, of sorts. Ah, well... nonetheless, this image jumped in my head, just in time for the holidays (or, rather, "holi-daze" as I prefer to call them). I have a series of these in mind--we'll see if I get 'em done in time!
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STEP ONE: Here are the digital pencils, done on a 900px x 1260px canvas.
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STEP TWO: Since I knew the facial pattern would need to be identical on both sides, I inked half of Darth Maul's face, then copied and flipped it horizontally. I also left off the horns, since I was going to be replacing them with Christmas Tree lights.
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STEP THREE: I created a MULTIPLY Layer to begin colorizing the drawing, and then added the lettering.
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Done digitally in Photoshop.
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John, I need this on a Tee Shirt! 2XL!
ReplyDeleteGreetings and thank you so much for the kind words! 🙂
DeleteFunny story, that. I actually tried a couple times to setup a Shop with the T-Shirt places (Tee Public and Threadless) and have a series of Sithmas shirts, including the Darth Maul one. Of course, they were quickly Copyright flagged and taken down, even though there are other Sithmas shirts on the same sites.
In fact, one shirt was flagged, then they said they reviewed it and it could stay up at their store, and then taken down again about an hour later. Go figure.
Maybe I'll try again in the future. Maybe.
Thanks,
John D.
(Why did I feel like I should be quoting Miracle Max from "The Princess Bride" after telling this story?: "And thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?" (Joking, of course! I'm barely bitter about it at all!)) 😜