Figure IX: The Man of the Times
Only the latest will yield satisfaction. He celebrates impermanence. Fleeting form.
"it is the summer of fourty-five
black-market dealers are in the streets
but we all feel so alive
now we get again what we need"
'Black Market Dealers' Funker Vogt
4 comments:
Hello Chuang,
very powerful image!! love the use of the black spots, very heavy and contrast. Love the loose and broken line, very fresh. And the pose is really powerful. Maybe the arms are quite not in proportion, but the whole pic is great! Nice work.
In answer to your question: no problem!
I did these 3 images in the same way(maybe one day will finish all the horoscope). First of all sketch the faces with pencil from a newspaper photograph, try to exagerate it (in a hirshfeld way, look the post about him)render a good line.
Then scan the drawing and import it into flash (or other vector based program) to ink it.
To colour it, I've also used this time flash. Try to use a warm palette and only flat colors (no gradients).
Once render the pic, go with it to photoshop and add a light or filter in yellow-orange to get some warm mood.
And that's it!
Time to render.. about 3 hours (maybe the most difficult part is to get the sketch)
I hope it helps you.
Thanks for the comments. Yes, the proportions were exaggerated and are off. I will have to work on those.
The clarity and cleaness of your work continues to amaze me. I appreciate your explanation of your process. I am not experienced in the use of vector-based programs though I had worked at a design firm where all of the designers were using vector-based programs. Their speciality was always 'Flash'. I had also worked with some animators in a traditional printing and multimedia firm and they were also using Flash then for their illustrations. When you mentioned difficulty of the sketch, may I know if you meant that of the transferring of the scanned sketch to a vector based one? The cleaning up process?
Yeah, to get a very clean "sketch" is the most complex part for me. I ussually draw with a lot of details, and very rough. I always have to re-do the drawing several times (cleanning it) before I scanned it.
Like some zen proverb "The garden will be perfect, when there are no any more things to remove" (something like this)
The basic idea is to keep it simple. Then, I import the image into flash, and "ink" it in a layer above.
Look at this master line guy:
Bruce Timm
Your patience is admirable! Several times! I am astonished when I shouldn't be. I am imagine. It must have demanded tremendous discipline.
May I know if you do pencil sketches? I know I used to do very detailed pencil work but I failed to spray fixative on it, thus losing many old pieces.
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