Branwen Rough Inks

Branwen WoR Prelim

Ok, I figure I might as well show you how I muddle through a typical one of these calendar pictures, given the fact that this piece here is very late in coming out.

Now, some of the pictures for the calendar were drawn and inked on one piece of paper, scanned in, then touched up on the computer. But about half of these calendar pieces are made up of several different scans. The Branwen and Alec poses were done on an 11×14 bristol board, vertically, while the background dancers were drawn on the same size paper, horizontally. I then brought our two main characters over into the dancer background, scaled them down a bit until they looked right, then roughly masked out the white surrounding them, allowing the background to show through more. Now, the background dancers are far from complete. A lot of changes will be made to the faces of the right two characters especially. Other background props will also likely be done in photoshop.  Sometimes, if I can’t get it just right with my wacom, then I’ll once more used pen and paper to drawn what I am after and scan it, too.

Ok, I have my work cut out for me. So I better get back to it.