HJTHX1138 said:What a cool way to celebrate!
Apart from Damon & myself, it looks like that is what everyone else has done. (Damon probably used a tablet to draw directly on the computer and I had a scan of an old, b&w sketch that was added onto the card in Photoshop.)Crack that whip said:Pardon my ignorance, but how are people doing these? Do we print out the image from JuniorJones' original post and physically draw on that and then scan it, or what?
Crack that whip said:Pardon my ignorance, but how are people doing these?
Tracing paper is for chumps. For the main figure in mine, I used a light box!Montana Smith said:I suspect some sleight of hand involving tracing paper.
Stoo said:Tracing paper is for chumps. For the main figure in mine, I used a light box!
Crack that whip said:Pardon my ignorance, but how are people doing these? Do we print out the image from JuniorJones' original post and physically draw on that and then scan it, or what?
JuniorJones said:However people are doing it, I think it's great that members are posting their sketches.
Stoo, A light box?! Shame on you...before you know it you'll be using the 'crack cocaine' of professional artists. The Opto-scope. So addictive you'll never sketch out a drawing again!
indyclone25 said:i have heard people using a light box to do their drawings , what do they do , do the make a copy of the picture card size and then trace it? cause to me thats not sketching a card......to sketch a card is to do it free hand and quickly .
i showcased my sketch cards on scoundrel art.com and i was applauded for not using the light box techinque, a few of the people loved the rawness of my work .JuniorJones said:Lightbox, Opto-scopes, camera obsurers, tracing - are the tools of the professional. If they say they do no use them, they are lying - including Drew Struzan.
If anyone is serious about being a professional illustrator, invest in one as time is money.
You can see a lot of this technique with the pro sketch cards but it's how you translate it that counts.
indyclone25 said:i showcased my sketch cards on scoundrel art.com and i was applauded for not using the light box techinque, a few of the people loved the rawness of my work .
Damon said:I drew on paper and scanned the finished drawings later to paste them in photoshop onto the blanks. But I used photo-references
Nice work, Damon! Love the ones with Remy.Damon said:I drew on paper and scanned the finished drawings later to paste them in photoshop onto the blanks. But I used photo-references
I like this one, Junior! Nice to see you that you're the first person to use my horizontal blank (based on your vertical blank).JuniorJones said:Still, for me, there is nothing more fun than a blank piece of paper and a fine nib marker...
Yes. Even the great, Jan Vermeer, supposedly used a Camera Obscura back in the 1600s (and the technique was used hundreds of years earlier than that).JuniorJones said:Lightbox, Opto-scopes, camera obsurers, tracing - are the tools of the professional. If they say they do no use them, they are lying - including Drew Struzan.
If anyone is serious about being a professional illustrator, invest in one as time is money.
You can see a lot of this technique with the pro sketch cards but it's how you translate it that counts.
Stoo said:I like this one, Junior! Nice to see you that you're the first person to use my horizontal blank (based on your vertical blank).
stoo said:Yes. Even the great, Jan Vermeer, supposedly used a Camera Obscura back in the 1600s (and the technique was used hundreds of years earlier than that).
FACT: Drew Struzan used an overhead projector to do most of his movie-based work. (I had one at home but got rid of it because it was so damned cumbersome and I barely used it.)