moodiness means I work on tentacles.
Apr. 20th, 2004 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashA hint of my working methods. Maybe.
Original sketch:
About 80% done:
Outline view of same:
Two global color swatches mean I could make this whatever color scheme I want. No transparancy or color blends; the shading you see is all hatching, done mostly with dashed lines.
Thirteen layers; the one for the person in the doorway expands into six sub-layers. I <3 layers a whole lot. This is probably done in terms of layers unless I add more tentacles.
Speaking of which, a closeup on the doorway:
There's always some part of my images that concentrates more detail than the rest, and this is it in this one. Dotted lines, swirly blends; the spines on the head (headdress?) are art brushes. The swirlies over the door are mirrored with the appearance palette, not by cutting and pasting - group, add a new stroke to the group in the appearance palette, transform it with move and reflect X.
I can't decide if the upper left needs a few more cryptic tentacular limbs or not. Also, the stripes on the back of the huge tentacle will probably vanish; I need something to contrast the suction cups that will be on its back, but those stripes aren't it.
Original sketch:
About 80% done:
Outline view of same:
Two global color swatches mean I could make this whatever color scheme I want. No transparancy or color blends; the shading you see is all hatching, done mostly with dashed lines.
Thirteen layers; the one for the person in the doorway expands into six sub-layers. I <3 layers a whole lot. This is probably done in terms of layers unless I add more tentacles.
Speaking of which, a closeup on the doorway:
There's always some part of my images that concentrates more detail than the rest, and this is it in this one. Dotted lines, swirly blends; the spines on the head (headdress?) are art brushes. The swirlies over the door are mirrored with the appearance palette, not by cutting and pasting - group, add a new stroke to the group in the appearance palette, transform it with move and reflect X.
I can't decide if the upper left needs a few more cryptic tentacular limbs or not. Also, the stripes on the back of the huge tentacle will probably vanish; I need something to contrast the suction cups that will be on its back, but those stripes aren't it.
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Date: 2004-04-20 11:21 am (UTC)Also, maybe some... dapply sorts of shapes for the big tentacle? The one with the stripes... which aren't nearly organic-looking enough for a tentacle, I think.
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Date: 2004-04-20 09:07 pm (UTC)Besides, tentacles are just plain cool...
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Date: 2004-04-20 11:32 pm (UTC)Ooo, art skeleton!
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