Sunday, February 24, 2008

What can blue do for you?

Here's a walkthrough of my "finished" line art process as it stands. The proportional errors should have been corrected in step one, but as usual I got ahead of myself. I'll do my best to make amends in the color pass, which you'll see in my next WIP :)



1. grayscale thumbnails in Photoshop
2. convert image to pure cyan with channel mixer, print w/ color inkjet
3. tighten with blue pencil over printout
4. black pass with Verithin pencil/hb lead
5. scan, hue/sat out the blue/cyan
6. multiply line art, tweak levels


Shuffled the figures around so they don't look as bunched.

4 comments:

  1. Flexible ElfFebruary 24, 2008 at 8:15 PM

    Cool I thought I was the only person who printed out np blues and finished them off by hand.

    dope!

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  2. Sebastien GallegoFebruary 27, 2008 at 9:53 AM

    Man! You are talented! You have the eye for character design!
    Have a good day,

    Seb

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  3. UnknownMarch 2, 2008 at 2:27 PM

    Great blog- Good to see your work flow.I have also seen your HellChick design floating around the web for a while now, its good to keep an eye on your stuff.

    Look foreward to future updates

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  4. Red FoxJune 14, 2008 at 5:11 PM

    Good work!
    They look real good.

    Salutes!

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