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More Postage Stamp Stuff for my Graphic Design Class. >_>_
This coloring style was done based on the old coloring style of Adi Granov. I kinda glanced at a tutorial of his thinking I comprehended it when I didn't grok a single word until I tried it for myself via trail and error. This was certainly a learning experience as I learned about certain layer blending modes that I never had a clue how to get them to work right before. @_@
One of the themes in this postage stamp series is for each character to be in lighting of what I call thier 'Image Color' which is a color that represents them. Morobon's as you can see is purple.
The way he's also positioned in the image is symbolic based on some really bizzare theory by a centemporary German artist who's name escapes me and I lost the link to the theory in question.... But to paraphrase the left of the image represents the 'past', the right the 'future', the top half of the page 'postive' and the bottom 'negative'. To to show a character on the right side of the image looking left means he's looking to the past like Moro here, the fact that he's looking up you know he's looking at a 'positive past' full of happiness. If he were looking down it would have been a 'negative past' full of sorrow... which both is true for the character but I chose to show him reflecting on happier times. ^.^
Here's the greyscale of Lilith.... I'm not too crazy about the grainy texture that my pencil left behind since I shaded this one with wood pencils and I used my mechanical one for Moro.... However with Moro I wasn't getting the value range I wanted and with Lilith I got values in abundance but the shading looks rough to me. x.x;;; And her cheek and forehead tattoos were created with a very thin eraser. ^-^
And the Color:
In all my bitching about that grainy shading I made it work. Sweet. *_* Gold is Lilith's Image Color as she's the only one with some really oddball 'special' color in my book. I decided to take a less than precise aprroach do doing her tattoos without crisp clean lines and kinda give this soft glow to them as they are metallic gold and illuminant.... if that's even a word. >_>_ It think it came out pretty neat. ^.^
And as for that wacky German theroy Lili here is shown looking to a positive future. In later stamps I really fuck around with this theory. XD
Mediums: Poser Printouts for Shading Ref, Pencil on Bristol -- Morobon 3 hours, Lilith 4 hours, then 30 minutes each in Photoshop
This coloring style was done based on the old coloring style of Adi Granov. I kinda glanced at a tutorial of his thinking I comprehended it when I didn't grok a single word until I tried it for myself via trail and error. This was certainly a learning experience as I learned about certain layer blending modes that I never had a clue how to get them to work right before. @_@
One of the themes in this postage stamp series is for each character to be in lighting of what I call thier 'Image Color' which is a color that represents them. Morobon's as you can see is purple.
The way he's also positioned in the image is symbolic based on some really bizzare theory by a centemporary German artist who's name escapes me and I lost the link to the theory in question.... But to paraphrase the left of the image represents the 'past', the right the 'future', the top half of the page 'postive' and the bottom 'negative'. To to show a character on the right side of the image looking left means he's looking to the past like Moro here, the fact that he's looking up you know he's looking at a 'positive past' full of happiness. If he were looking down it would have been a 'negative past' full of sorrow... which both is true for the character but I chose to show him reflecting on happier times. ^.^
Here's the greyscale of Lilith.... I'm not too crazy about the grainy texture that my pencil left behind since I shaded this one with wood pencils and I used my mechanical one for Moro.... However with Moro I wasn't getting the value range I wanted and with Lilith I got values in abundance but the shading looks rough to me. x.x;;; And her cheek and forehead tattoos were created with a very thin eraser. ^-^
And the Color:
In all my bitching about that grainy shading I made it work. Sweet. *_* Gold is Lilith's Image Color as she's the only one with some really oddball 'special' color in my book. I decided to take a less than precise aprroach do doing her tattoos without crisp clean lines and kinda give this soft glow to them as they are metallic gold and illuminant.... if that's even a word. >_>_ It think it came out pretty neat. ^.^
And as for that wacky German theroy Lili here is shown looking to a positive future. In later stamps I really fuck around with this theory. XD
Mediums: Poser Printouts for Shading Ref, Pencil on Bristol -- Morobon 3 hours, Lilith 4 hours, then 30 minutes each in Photoshop