Here’s a quick portrait of Swedish actress Christina Lindberg star of “They call her one eye”. Pencil and ink on cartridge paper.
Monthly Archive for April, 2009
I have been working on a large painting (24” by 48” acrylic on canvas) for a client’s lounge room. These are the development sketches starting with quick thumbnails to a more finished rough.
This sketch of Cyclops is inspired by the early X-Men comics drawn by prolific Jack Kirby. Pentel brush pen on detail paper.
I have always loved the look of picture book illustration for the 1950’s and the UPA animation style. That’s the inspiration for this guy. Wasn’t sure what to call him but he looks like a George to me.
Process
As usual this started on paper then redrawn in illustrator. Shapes placed on a separate layers and converted to compound paths then exported as a psd. When opened in Photoshop each layer appears as an adjustment layer with a mask. I then finalized the colours and added the textures.
