I went to the ever trusty Kinko's (As long as you don't print anything in color! Oooh jab to the solar plexus!) and made copies of the drawing to make the blue line drop out and to make the contrast stronger. I take that photocopy, scan it into Photoshop and fiddle with the brightness/contrast even more and ol' Bucket Phil spots in my blacks.Funny thing is, once all the blacks were spotted in, I noticed this large black spot right in the middle, where the bottom of Scatterbrain's cloak is. It was a huge gaping, boring nothing. Right in the middle! In the thumbnail it seemed it would be okay left that way, but my layout changed inadvertently due to me moving the thug on the upper right's arm. So digitally I went back in and made these creases on his cloak. And strangely enough that little change helped it a bit! Whew! Thank goodness for computers!
I noticed something else too, maybe because I'm doing this project right after the previous one, but... is that Galactic man working for the side of evil?!?!
5 comments:
Arvin!
This is amazing! I love the skull and whole style of this image. Great work. Can't wait to see where things go from here! you should ask Rich if he has anything else for you.
-Rocket Pistol
Yeah I haven't gotten in touch with him yet. It's been a crazy few weeks, and I'm pretty bogged down, but it's slowing down real quick! I look back at the original sketch and even though it was a choice to go more real, there's a lot of stuff I miss from the original thumbnail (Like that crazy looking face I did behind Scatterbrain).
I have to tell you, the finish is perfect. I think that this pin-up only got better as you pushed it to completion. I think this subject matter suits your work really well. I think we need to keep you doing more work in comics, and I'll do everything I can to help you get this incredible work out there!
-Rocket Pistol
awww shucks! I'm blushing!
You guys should just kiss already!
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