For this week of my VAM 30 special project I decided to start finishing the older pages, starting another new page when none of the previous ones aren't complete wouldn't make any sense. For the first page I've made much more progress on the background, most of the buildings are complete at this point so soon it will be exported into Photoshop for more precise detailing, along with that, I've finished the hair for Ryan (the protagonist/dude on the first page.) I'll be moving onto fixing his clothes this upcoming week as well as exporting the background into Photoshop. On the second page, I've finished more work on the staircase railings and wine wall. This page is also almost ready to be exported into photoshop for finer details, I just need to fix the poker table and stairs. Overall, this week has been quite productive and I'm looking forward to what I can accomplish next!
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Despite this week's shorter time frame, I've managed to get a decent amount of work done on this page. My main priority for the first page on Tuesday was to fix the hair of the main protagonist, the guy with white hair; however I had never attempted to draw the back of someone's head in such detail before so it took more time than I would've liked. The next day I added shading to the protagonist's hair and some wrinkles to the other person's clothing. Shoes were also added as placeholders to see what their actual shoes may look like once drawn and help with pant length. On Thursday I added more wrinkles to the other person's coat and shoulder pads to the main protagonist's trench coat; the outcome isn't what I want for the final product so I'll be fixing them next week. Afterward, I decided to start sketching out a gas mask for the other person, drawing faces in Illustrator isn't my strong suit and a gas mask makes sense given the setting of the novel. With everything considered, even with all the roadblocks I've run into I still think I've made alright progress this week. For this week of my VAM 30 special project I decided to take a different approach to how I'd start this page, instead of focusing on the background I've been focused on detailing the characters. The background isn't as important in this illustration as it is in the previous ones, what's important here is giving an idea of what sort of opponents the protagonist, Ryan, is up against since the scene was already established in the previous illustration. On Monday I started off by tracing all of the line-art and added the base colours to the man on the right. On Tuesday I fixed the belt and hair of the man on the right then coloured it in afterwards. I added a skin colour I thought fit well however looking back on it I might have to change it, other then that I started to experiment with what kind of shading would be appropriate for a character of his size. On Wednesday I began to start on the main character's cloak then did some touch ups to the man on the right, removing most unneeded lines. This past week that I've been working on the second page of my illustrated novel has proved be very successful, progress has been great and I haven't ran into any problems. On Monday I had long awaited over the weekend to fix the dreaded staircase that bothered me so much from last week and I did just that, with them fixed they now actually look in proper perspective. I achieved this by drawing the lines pointed more upward as the problem with the last set of stairs is they followed the same perspective lines as everything else, this made it look as if they were a floor made of toy triangles. With that out of the way, my primary goal was to finish the line-art and move onto colouring in the illustration. By Tuesday I had finished most of the line-art, the most noticeable change being the railing on top now looking to actually be in perspective which I did using the perspective grid tool in adobe illustrator. On Wednesday I created a basic colour scheme and began to filling everything in, the pallet is outside the art-board and consists of dull looking to enforce the setting of the story. I continued to colour everything in on Thursday, it hasn't proven to be difficult but just time consuming due to how tedious it is to group each shape. This concludes my forth week of my project, if the next page I start on Monday isn't completed on time I plan to adjust my work schedule so these past 2 pages can be finished. After all, completing what pages I have already takes priority over starting more I won't have time to finish, I'm hoping if it comes down to it I'll only need another 4 days on each page at most. |
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December 2019
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