Saturday 20 April 2013

making shapes

Lately I have been doing a lot of experimenting with with the way I make images.  I have been trying a method where I first paint a coloured shape or group of shapes and then use line to resolve the shapes into specific places or characters.  Sometimes I add a third stage where I wash over sections of the shape with additional colours.  All the additional colours show a little of the base colour behind them and I think this helps to unify them somewhat...

I used this technique on the cover of the forthcoming Bell X1 album, Chop Chop and also for several spreads in the Selfish Giant.










4 comments:

  1. So glad you have a blog now! New stuff looks beautiful - how do I be a follower..? :)

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    1. Thanks! Nice to hear from you... you can follow through blogger, think there's a page for it where you sign in, or with an RSS reader... Please do ^-^!

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  2. A similar approach is common in digital artwork these days, but these are something else! Having to think about silhouette first seems a really useful way of drawing.

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    1. I've gotten quite obsessed with shapes lately! By taking them as the starting point it does seem to ease the pressure on the rest of the rendering. You have a structure in place and something to react to at the same time.

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