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Grim Reaper Storyboard: Part 2

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This is another storyboard for a different grim reaper script for a commercial for Participaction. These are my rough sketches for the storyboard. I then drew the same storyboard but I used a different process. In this one, I gave it a more painterly feel by just using the brush tool to block my shapes and figures in without outlining them. I was surprised that this method was faster than the method above. The next thing I decided to do was pick one of my thumbnails and colourize it like I did in Part 1. But this time I will be using the same process in the above thumbnails which is painting in the colour without outlines. I picked the second thumbnail for this part. I used these reference photos to help me paint a realistic woman, banana and grim reaper. Here is my process: 1. I painted in the background. First the sky with a 60% opacity and 60% flow. Then the same measurements for the ground. Then I just added some fluffy clouds in the sky with a soft brush. ...

Illustration Friday: Olympics

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This one was from a few weeks ago but I did a large project with it. I picked one of the Canadian athletes going to the winter games in Pyeong Chang 2018   and made a poster for them to advertise the games. I picked the athlete Larkyn Austman and she is a figure skater. To create a good poster composition, I looked at the work of Bob Peak and David Grove. These are some of the references I used to help me with my design. Then I drew some thumbnails of my athlete with an action shot of them. I tried to use the techniques used in my reference pictures. I picked the bottom left and continued with the design in Photoshop. I used these pictures of her for the poster design. Here's a picture of my design after I finished her head. I used the three blobs of paint on the right side of her head as her skin tone. From top, it's the shadow, next is the midtone, and last is the highlights. I had to blend the colours together by changing the opacity of the paint....

Grim Reaper Storyboard

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I found an old script for a commercial so I decided to create a rough storyboard for it, then I made more detailed thumbnails, and I finished with picking one of the thumbnails and coloured it. Here is the rough sketches of the storyboard. Next, I took my rough thumbnails and made them more realistic and detailed. I used these pictures to help me draw an accurate human and banana. And finally for the coloured thumbnail that I picked. Here is the process I took to colour my design. 1. I covered the background with blue for the sky and you'll notice I put it everywhere. This will help me with my sidewalk later. I did the sky first because it's the farthest thing away in the design. 2. I painted in the grass, shrubs and tree tops because it was second farthest. I used different green to have variety.  3. I added the brown for the tree trunks because, you guessed it, it's the third farthest away. 4. I colour the sidewalk. But I...