Illustration Friday:
U N I C O R N
After seeing the subject for this weeks drawing, i immediately thought of all the over used and cliched pictures of fat, cute horses with horns stuck on them, farting/puking rainbows..and looking at the earlybird entries, thats exactly what i got! Luckily my Process & Production work has been dealing with a story that features unicorns so i'd already done plenty of research on them, so knocking up something that didn't feature a rainbow was a relieving possibility! I didn't really want to use something that was already in my sketchbook, but went back to my findings and investigated further into various unicorn depictions from different cultures, namely the Ming, Jin & Qin Dynasties (see below). A bit out of the box, but hopefully a bit more original than the just going for the obvious formula. As long as i didn't make anything with a bloody rainbow in it then i'd be happy.
As it was my last week before leaving for xmas and with the amount of work i've still got to do in order to be ready for print when i get back i didn't spend too long making lots & lots of scamps, i just drew and drew, and rubbed out and drew over the same scamp unit l i had a rough idea of how i wanted it to look. I used the different reference images of 'Qilins' (chinese unicorns) to create my own depiction of one.
Then it was just a matter of scanning, blowing up, redrawing, the redrawing the final pencil lifework (in red pencil) then inking over the top with brush pens. Then large res scan and render in Photoshop, withstanding the lure of the vector this time around.
As it was my last week before leaving for xmas and with the amount of work i've still got to do in order to be ready for print when i get back i didn't spend too long making lots & lots of scamps, i just drew and drew, and rubbed out and drew over the same scamp unit l i had a rough idea of how i wanted it to look. I used the different reference images of 'Qilins' (chinese unicorns) to create my own depiction of one.
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| The tiny foundation scamp |
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| Large refined scamp |
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| Finished rough pencil work |
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| Scanned rough pencil linework, ready for 'neat' red pencil linework |
Mr Newbert had kindly given me one of his squeezy pentel brush pens so i though i'd put it to use, keep the digital production to colouring and texturing only, hopefully saving a lot of tweaking on illustrator.
Final inks, thin lines aided with a fineliner
Photoshop rendering, keeping the colour palleted as simple as possible.
There was some wasted space on the left which i felt could do with filling to balance the
composition more.But wasn't really sure what with…
Played about with the symbol of the Ming Dynasty in various forms.
Also started to add textures to give things bit of depth.
More subtle layered texture additions. Also a small bit of type as an explanation to what it is - as to the uniformed, this could look like I've got the subject matter wrong
All ready for submission, even earlier than last week! I'm surprising myself.
+ Enjoyed working predominantly with the brush pens. Took away the option of making endless corrections.Felt a bigger sense of achievement once i'd finished it.
+ Learnt how to draw scales, albeit not massively accurately.
+ Enjoyed having a structured production-line style process, i knew where i wanted to go and what i needed to do to get there.
+ Not so much indecision about production method. It was: rough line work - tight linework - final linework - ink over linework - scan - render - submit. NEXT!
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- Not a whole to going on. Find it hard to create 'landscapes' for my drawings to live in,with out becoming cluttered or irrelevant.
- Character pose a bit static, even though it's a statue.
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