Friday, August 21, 2009

Cockabilly


step 5: digital media: Photoshop
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Finishing up the piece I came across a dilemma. The blacks and whites were well balanced, but I felt that the rooster's facial features were getting lost. So I cheated and added color... Sometimes you just gotta know when you're beat.

Demon Rockabilly Rooster.

everywhere a "bok-bok"


step 4: digital media: Photoshop (unfinished)
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Next step was to figure out what to do with a floating rooster head. As I had said previously in "step 2", I had no clue where this sketch was heading since I went in blindly. For some reason the rooster mohawk reminded me of a rockabilly style haircut. Another idea that popped into my head was to give the giant rooster head an octopus' lower body of tentacles...just for the sake of randomness. A few quick sketches later, it was decided that the former idea would win out.

here a "bok", there a "bok"...


step 3: digital media: Photoshop (unfinished)
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Decided not to use a pure white but instead a RGB:235 gray, so that the image would be a bit softer on the eyes. I wanted to be careful with the use of the white. Using it sparingly as lighting as well as to ground and punch up certain black lines and details.

and a "bok-bok" there...


step 2: digital media: Photoshop (unfinished)
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The rooster subject matter came about only after starting the piece. At the time of scribbling in the eyes and the main shape of the head I was thinking of the exercise of high contrast. Figuring I would need some sort of graphic element to punch up with black, I decided a mohawk would be an interesting element which I would be able to play around with. After a beak and a wattle later, a rooster came about.

a "bok-bok" here...


step 1: digital media: Photoshop (unfinished)
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Here's the first of a five step sketch/high contrast rendering done completely in Photoshop. The exercise was to create a piece using high contrast black & white on a midtone background, much like a charcoal/conté drawing.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

fatty cow


digital media: Photoshop
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Not sure what was going through my mind for this one, but I'm pretty sure that cow is a dude.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

back on the drawing board


digital media: Photoshop
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Had some time to kill. Going to try to get back into some semblance of consistency, so it's going to be sketches for the next few. Here's to hopeful optimism!