Here's four examples of the raw art before it's been "cut out" and manipulated in Photoshop. I treat them as paper cutouts which allows me to slide them around until I find color and composition that pleases me.
Monday, June 02, 2014
Raw Art and Artist Elizabeth Layton
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Fascinating story of the artist. I'm glad she found all that comfort from the art. The sister story is a tear jerker.
Thanks for Silent Joe. Great story. It concludes below people.
Maybe you should change the header of this post- add, The last Silent Joe below
Very interesting approach. Almost a Colorforms approach to making a comic.
Colorforms, exactly! Or like putting together a paper diorama.
Yes. Everyone will now have to buy col-erase blue pencils. I may have a couple. I'll look.
So you drew all the plants and rocks etc.separately then combine them to make the forests etc? Love the unique foliage by the way. How did you come to determine the color pallet? The colors compliment very well.
The more I look at the story Tom, the more in awe I am of it's look and feel. How long did this take?
This reminds me of something I would have seen in Heavy Metal
Yes, Jim I drew them all separately and combined them, but I often had a rough mental "sketch", or sometimes a physical one, of the layout. So many times though, by sliding elements around and playing with the palette, I made compositional and color discoveries that I couldn't have otherwise come up with.
I've worked on this for about the last eight months, longer if you count the two or three months of just doodling in my sketch book and playing with ideas that ended up leading nowhere.
I don't see it led to nowhere. This is inspirational and gave me a lot to think about
I'm glad of that then. Hanging out with everybody on the TAG blog has been an inspiration to me all these years.
Tom-E, love the behind-the-scenes insight. The stuff looks so great. And so very unique!
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