Tuesday, June 13, 2017

enworld piece

I thought they forgot about me.


color tonight


7 comments:

Tom Moon said...

That's a really nice little painting Ellis!

MrGoodson2 said...

Thanks Tom. I forgot the imp needed a rifle. So that was a later add on. Doesn't gel as well as it could if it was part of the original sketch.

BDMontag said...

I didn't see the rifle at first, I just read it as some sort of swing or trapeze. I thought of the bat in Anastasia.
What do you think if the background items were inked with rulers and inking templates and such? Would the living things pop more?

MrGoodson2 said...

Ben, I can't use tools to ink. It has to be freehand. Which is weird since my favorite job was doing Yellow Pages art when I graduated college. Always did art with templates. I do the occasional straight line with a ruler. The Pop is a factor. It needs to be a contrast decision.

MrGoodson2 said...

I also used technical pens, kohinoor and some other brand. Mars? maybe. That was my template using days. I used to move from place to place with a ton of plastic templates. All these great ellipse templates- all sizes. French curves. I forget when I got rid of them.

MrGoodson2 said...

The alien script on the ice planet was done on the whiteboard. I first wrote a jumble of "damn dirty ape"- thickened parts, erased parts. Ended up with the glyph.

MrGoodson2 said...

I have to completely revise the ape piece. He didn't go for my creative re imagining of a ziggarut. He wants a ziggarut.