Monday, June 02, 2014

Raw Art and Artist Elizabeth Layton

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.
 
 I found this woman's story inspiring (out of one of my books on drawing).  "Having endured a thirty-five year struggle with depression, she took a drawing class at age sixty-eight and learned the technique of blind drawing-drawing without looking at the paper.  She credited this process with curing her depression and saving her life."


11 comments:

MrGoodson2 said...

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

JMG said...

Very interesting approach. Almost a Colorforms approach to making a comic.

Tom Moon said...

Colorforms, exactly! Or like putting together a paper diorama.

MrGoodson2 said...

Yes. Everyone will now have to buy col-erase blue pencils. I may have a couple. I'll look.

JMG said...

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.

JMG said...

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?

JMG said...

This reminds me of something I would have seen in Heavy Metal

Tom Moon said...

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.

JMG said...

I don't see it led to nowhere. This is inspirational and gave me a lot to think about

Tom Moon said...

I'm glad of that then. Hanging out with everybody on the TAG blog has been an inspiration to me all these years.

Davis Chino said...

Tom-E, love the behind-the-scenes insight. The stuff looks so great. And so very unique!