Roy Batty: Year in Review

Roy Batty: Year in Review

I think Roy Batty from "Blade Runner" sums up the year pretty well.

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STEP ONE:  Here are some quick digital scribbles indicating the general layout, construction, and color.  This was pretty much the halfway point, give-or-take.

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STEP TWO:  Basically, I just used the chalk brush at varying opacities to finish digitally painting the pic, as well as some blending brush to smooth out some of the more obvious brushstrokes.  I also did a rain in a separate layer, then blurred it a few pixels, and moved the opacity down to about 65%.  Oh, and I added some type, of course, with the word balloons just being white-filled circles with the opacity also dropped to 65%.

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Done digitally in Photoshop.

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Merry Sithmas - Supreme Leader Snoke

Merry Sithmas

Hey, it's another Sithmas card, this time for Supreme Leader Snoke.  I have a few more in mind for next year, so there's that to look forward to... I mean, if you're into Sithmas cards and all.  So, temper your enthusiasm and all that.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital scribbles with a 5pt. hard brush.

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STEP TWO: I dropped the opacity of the pencil layer and inked overtop again with a 5pt. hard brush.  Here is the finished digital ink layer.

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STEP THREE:  Several layers were used to color beneath the inked drawing.  I then animated the stars behind Snoke and output it as an animated .gif.  

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Done digitally with Photoshop.

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Merry Sithmas - Count Dooku

Merry Sithmas

Gee, it's been a while since I put out a Sithmas Card.  And, with a little movie called "Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi" out in theaters, now, I suppose it's time to dust them off again.

Originally, I intended to give him an elf's hat, but I just didn't have enough room on the top of his head to get it to look look correctly.  So, I cheated a bit and went with holly on his cape, instead.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils, scrawled and scribbled with a 5pt. hard brush.  Gosh darn it!  The pencils almost always look better to me than the finished inks.  Sigh...  Probably 'cuz they are more loose and sketchy, giving your brain the opportunity to choose the best lines it likes best to finish the drawing, rather than being given a single, solid line.

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STEP TWO: I dropped the opacity of the pencil layer and inked overtop again with a 5pt. hard brush.  Here is the finished digital ink layer.

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STEP THREE:  Several layers were used to color beneath the inked drawing.  I then animated the stars behind Count Dooku and output it as an animated .gif.  Ta da!

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Done digitally with Photoshop.

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Separated at Birth: Pennywise and Killer Klowns

Separated at Birth

Hey, it's another joke that is rather obvious, and of course that means I cannot allow it to pass by without a comment!  (Thanks, Captain Obvious!)

Both Pennywise and the Killer Klowns from Outer Space:

- Came from Outer Space/Alternate Dimensions

- Have clown-like appearance

- Murderous... Very murderous

- Generous use of balloons for terror

- Crazy hair

- Bad teeth

- Divergent strabismus (exotropia)

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STEP ONE/TWO:  In this case, I did do some step-by-steps for the Killer Klown digital painting ("Slim", in this case).  First, I did some quickly scribbled digital pencils (5 pt. hard brush).  Followed by the color roughs on a new Layer just below the pencils which were done with a 50pt. chalk brush.

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STEP THREE/FOUR:  I merged the digital pencil layer down on top of the color layer and began to build up and tighten the colors--pushing the shadows and bumping up the highlights.  The head was pretty much done, leaving the collar and shirt to finish.

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STEP FIVE:  I also decided to update the Pennywise a little bit, moved the nose down, re-colored the hair, and made minor, um, cosmetic changes.  I made the lighting slightly more dramatic so it would better match the Killer Klown digital painting.

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Done digitally with Photoshop.

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Pennywise / Poundfoolish

Pennywise / Poundfoolish

OK, I admit it: this is a joke so obvious that I've had it kicking around in my head since the very first time I heard of "Pennywise the Clown" in the pages of Stephen King's "It".  And, what better time to actually getting around to doing it?

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STEP ONE:  Here's the quickly scribbled digital pencils, done in Photoshop with a 5pt. hard brush.

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STEP TWO:  I used so many different layers to paint over top of the digital pencils, that I forgot to save intermediate steps.  Well, that I'm a little slow, sometimes.  So, here it is all finished.  Ta-da... 

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This was done digitally in Photoshop.

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