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[kav]

Just finished this sketch cvr for boardie.  Its always a bit scary doing color sketch cvr as so many things can go wrong.  I use soft colored pencils and pantone colored markers to achieve a painting look:

Inked the hard part first:

Then moved on:

First layer of b/g color:

then blend with blue pencil over purple:

then blue marker over that (scanner not accurately picking up color-it is purple)

Then some stars with white guache toothbrush method:


Then series of color layers till complete:

 

 

[alexgross.com]

here are a few more pieces i recently did where i paint on top of antique cabinet card photos. i frame them like this with a replica of what the card looked like before i painted on it. these are super fun to do...

 

[Sarfa]

I haven't been around here in a few years. Here are a few of cover recreations I've done recently in one of my sketchbooks...

 

 

Edited October 5, 2020 by Sarfa

[kav]

59 minutes ago, Sarfa said:

I haven't been around here in a few years. Here are a few of cover recreations I've done recently in one of my sketchbooks...

 

 

WOW

[Get Marwood & I]

6 hours ago, Sarfa said:

I haven't been around here in a few years. Here are a few of cover recreations I've done recently in one of my sketchbooks...

Superb 

Marvellous colouring. 

[Complex306]

I have a very hot and cold relationship with art, hadn't seriously drawn anything in years but recently picked up some paint pens that Kav suggested. Here are my first few attempts at...something lol.

[wilbil]

On 9/28/2020 at 2:15 PM, kav said:

Wow amazing!  very well done.  Love the limited palette with the startling yellow.

the original pencil illustration is impressive, and maybe more so than the colored version, to me. i think it is the simplicity of the illustration that appeals to me.

[kav]

3 hours ago, wilbil said:

the original pencil illustration is impressive, and maybe more so than the colored version, to me. i think it is the simplicity of the illustration that appeals to me.

Use of color is tricky and when done right stands out.  Limited pallette.  The most striking comic covers use a limited pallette.  Compare limited pallette with amateurish use of throwing a wad of every color:
   

[wilbil]

that is a very informative example of what i described as simplicity appealing to me. thanks.

[Sarfa]

I have a little bit more to finish this but I wanted to show what I’ve been working on since 10/02 I call this piece “Focus - A Fan’s Perspective” It’s me drawing of picture of me watching and studying one of Aaron Horkey’s Instagram videos of him drawing a picture. That’s 4th wall inside a 4th wall. That’s like 16 walls!

[kav]

1 hour ago, Sarfa said:

I have a little bit more to finish this but I wanted to show what I’ve been working on since 10/02 I call this piece “Focus - A Fan’s Perspective” It’s me drawing of picture of me watching and studying one of Aaron Horkey’s Instagram videos of him drawing a picture. That’s 4th wall inside a 4th wall. That’s like 16 walls!

incredible.  

[Sarfa]

Thank you. I actually almost ripped this out of my sketchbook and burn it because i bought a new set of markers. In the bottom right corner of the screen you can see the shading is all jacked up. The paper started reacting really weird. Come to find out the markers were water based instead of the usual alcohol based and it messed up the paper. But I muscled through it and got it to the current state. Here is a pic to show the scale of this piece. I bought a Moleskine art sketchbook on Amazon because it was on sale. I didn't pay attention to the size when I ordered it. This is by far the biggest Moleskine I have ever seen. In this pic you can see the Pentel Orenz Nero 0.2mm mechanical pencil, the Copic Multiliners and cool gray markers I used on this piece. You can also see a 6" ruler and my other sketchbook that I did the cover recreations recently.

[kav]

54 minutes ago, Sarfa said:

Thank you. I actually almost ripped this out of my sketchbook and burn it because i bought a new set of markers. In the bottom right corner of the screen you can see the shading is all jacked up. The paper started reacting really weird. Come to find out the markers were water based instead of the usual alcohol based and it messed up the paper. But I muscled through it and got it to the current state. Here is a pic to show the scale of this piece. I bought a Moleskine art sketchbook on Amazon because it was on sale. I didn't pay attention to the size when I ordered it. This is by far the biggest Moleskine I have ever seen. In this pic you can see the Pentel Orenz Nero 0.2mm mechanical pencil, the Copic Multiliners and cool gray markers I used on this piece. You can also see a 6" ruler and my other sketchbook that I did the cover recreations recently.

Nice.  I really only use a copic 0.5 anymore then a futuyaki dbl sided brush pen.  Copic brush nibs last abt 5 minutes-the Futus are indestructible.  And cheaper.

[Sarfa]

I mostly used the 0.05 multiliner in all the detail work on the phone screen. I used 1.0 for some larger sections and the 2.0 on outlining the hand, fingers, left knee, etc.. This is actually my first time using gray tones only. I did use some neutral grays on the knees and hand. Everything else was cool grays. Ironically I had recently bought all the newer ultra tiny point Staedtler MarsMatic 700 technical pens to go with my set. The 4 new size pens cost more than my set. They were $40ea for the 0.13, 0.18, 0.1 and 0.25. And what's weird about hose measurements, the both the 0.13 and 0.18 are smaller than the 0.1. I didn't use them on this piece because in testing them, they were tearing up the paper pretty bad since they are new and need to be worn in some.

[the blob]

Trying some different things... Keeps me busy while binging Netflix. The first two are not oriented the way I prefer.

Edited October 20, 2020 by the blob

[iggy]

Not a recent one, but it became relevant again recently. From a college illustration class, probably 1984/85.

[Complex306]

On 10/20/2020 at 2:33 AM, iggy said:

Not a recent one, but it became relevant again recently. From a college illustration class, probably 1984/85.

Great job on the shirt folds! Its the little details like that and the hand shading that I find most difficult.

[kav]

On 10/19/2020 at 11:33 PM, iggy said:

Not a recent one, but it became relevant again recently. From a college illustration class, probably 1984/85.

Incredible.  I could post my college art stuff but I would hear the laughter from here.  It was really bad.  I am not a natural artist it took so many years before I could do anything decent.  Around age 27.

[kav]

5 hours ago, Complex306 said:

Great job on the shirt folds! Its the little details like that and the hand shading that I find most difficult.

Not only that but capturing the likeness.  That is a real skill its so ethereal.  You can lightbox someone's face exactly and it will look nothing like them.  You almost have to enter another dimension to capture their essence.  That's why I find Mort Drucker so incredible-he could capture anyone.
Most comic artists when they go to draw some famous person it looks nothing like them.  And these are professional comic artists.

Edited October 21, 2020 by kav

[s-man]

On 10/20/2020 at 2:33 AM, iggy said:

Not a recent one, but it became relevant again recently. From a college illustration class, probably 1984/85.

No Frankenstrat?