Girl on the platform

I’ve always been fond of studying people’s works-in-progresses. Not only is it interesting to learn how they go about drawing an apple or a nekkid figure, it reveals how their thoughts are processed into a visual form. The most insightful part of it is in witnessing the revisional stages of the process, when you get to see all the scribbling and erasing, all the miss-steps, and the editing that is realized through the artist’s judgement (or the art director’s orders).

That said, here’s my own work-in-progress. I don’t guarantee that it’ll give my unlucky reader as much delicious insight as I mentioned above, but it should be fun nonetheless.

This is part of a yet untitled comic book that my partner in crime and I are collaborating on. It will be the first “test” to render out a complete scene and realize the mood and style for the pencil and inkwork.

This first image is a raw camera capture of the initial sketch, retouched only to bring out the light pencil lines.

The perspective was all sorts of wonky, so I went in with the lightbox and a fresh bristol board and redrew the background. Once it looked good enough, I dropped my pencil and went to sleep. Apologies for the grainy camera capture once again.

I drew in the figures over the background with pencil, and began inking in bits and pieces.

Final touches involved gray fills and blends in photoshop, and then I cropped out the extra vertical space to push the panoramic effect.

View larger image here.