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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