This is a piece I did for a class project waaay long ago back in the winter of 2010. I get a lot of questions on it, so I thought I'd go over my process. I was messing around a bit with line weight and color, and am pretty happy with the results.
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| A couple roughs |
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After we rounded down to the 2 best ideas... (The dynamics of the circular composition of the clown poster and the character design of the Strong Man poster), we go to pencils sketching...
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| Ohhhhh, the spinning... urp! |
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| Strong Man "AAAARRRGGGHHH"... toot! |
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After the pencils, I go and tighten up the sketch a bit more. From here I go and transfer to illustration board. I make sure that the lines are visible before I go to the inks. My personal favorite inks are Dr. Ph. Martin's Matte Black Star and Speedball Super Black. For me they have the densest coverage and best fluidity. I use a range (3, 5, 7) of Windsor Newton Series 7 brushes that I will probably have for life. Best brush I have ever used! Also, while inking I will sometimes use nibs and Sakura Micron pens. I use Microns and tech pens when I inking man-made objects and brushes and nibs when I want more organic feel.
Since I was going for a more "olde-timey" feel I wanted to change the color and harshness of the lines. So after I scanned in the inkwork I turned them a brownish tint.
From here I just start dropping in and playing with color in Photoshop.
Finally to help make it look aged and stained I throw in some paper textures on opacity layers, some scratch and rips alpha channels, and burn the edges a bit to deepen and age it more.
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| voila' |
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