Jacquelin Vanderwood August 15, 2004
| 1 | | By now you should be familiar with the structure for sketching out a character as I have done below. We are looking upward at the sketch. The head is smaller than if you were looking straight on. Everything appears to be out of proportion but in reality from this view everything recedes in size the further it is away from you. |
| 2 | | Once you have the drawing how you like it, erase down so that only a light shading of it appears. |
| 3 | | The next step is to start to work out the details in pencil. As long as you have not applied ink at this stage, you're ok to make changes. |
| 4 | | At this point you would get a piece of tracing paper and copy the image. Then use Bristol board to create the permanent version. For the sake of this lesson I'll erase down and draw on the original with ink. Here is the line ink drawing so far. The lines are not embellished at this point. |
| 5 | | Going forward, at this point you would begin to accentuate and embellish the lines with heavier accents and lighter lines for detail areas. |
| 6 | | Once the inking is complete, you have two choices to color the artwork. You can use colored inks to paint pure color or you can scan the work into Photoshop, create a new layer below a duplicated original and begin to color it that way. It's really what is most natural and convenient for the artist. You will use two colors for each color. If you are using bright red, you'll need a darker red for shadows. This will apply to all the colors. |
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