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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Unwanted Valentines: Pris

Unwanted Valentines:

Pris

Another Unwanted Valentine based on "Blade Runner", in this case Priscilla Stratton, A.K.A. "Pris".  She was labelled as a "Basic pleasure model" on the screen used to show Deckard the escaped replicants, and activated on February 14, 2016.  So, Happy Birthentine to Pris?  Ugh, there's a portmanteau/neologism I guarantee will go to this paragraph and no further.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils on a 1,000px x 1,400px canvas at 200dpi.  Again, this was just as a quick sketch to put in the general layout.

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STEP TWO:  Digital inks done mostly with a 5pt. Hard Round brush.

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STEP THREE:  Colors were done over a Multiply Layer, and the lettering was added.

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Done digitally in Photoshop.
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Unwanted Valentines: Roy Batty

Unwanted Valentines:

Roy Batty

I'm a HUGE fan of "Blade Runner"--the movie, more so than the book, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", by Philip K. Dick.  The book is pretty good, but the movie just pulls my attention every time and I find it superior to the novel it's based upon.  I find it mildly ironic, since I almost always prefer the book to the movies.  For example, to use another Philip K. Dick work, I don't care for "Minority Report" the movie because the book/novella was perfect in the way it dealt with the contradictions made by the Precogs, and had a sense of paranoiac dread that I thought was lost in the transition to screen.

I missed Roy Batty's "birthday" last month (activated on January 8, 2016 according to the movie), so here's a Valentine about him, instead.

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STEP ONE:  Here are the digital pencils on a 1,000px x 1,400px canvas at 200dpi.  Just a quick sketch to put in the general layout.

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STEP TWO:  Over the digital pencils go the digital inks, don'cha know.  Mostly done with a 5pt Hard Round brush.

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STEP THREE:  On a new Multiply Layer I put in the colors, and finished it off with the lettering featuring a fairly terrible pun.

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This was done digitally with Photoshop

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