here is what happened! step by step. for ease of looking..
step 1. doodled on zerox paper. (i need to think of a better word than doodle. some day.)
2. Scanned the drawings into the computer and put them all together in Photoshop.
3. Printed it out and taped them together.
this is how loose the drawing was at this point.. loosey goosey.
4. Traced the drawing onto the watercolor paper using a light box and a 6H pencil. this is when the drawing gets a liiiittle tighter. but not too much tighter, since i'll paint lines anyway.
5. Printed out some reference and made a mood wall. i love that one of the family the best. dude's eyes are closed in a radical sort of way. He's taking a happy snooze!
6. Mixed some swatches based on the mood wall. I tried to stay within these colors for the whole piece so the colors didn't get away from me and become a rainbow mess.
7. my painting materials: mug of water, old plate for mixing, 2 brushes (cat's tongue and a fatter one), winsor newton water colors, scratch paper (for testing paints), paper towels.
8. Watercolor wash to lay in some light value over the whole thing. and texture.
9. Started laying in rough colors.
10. After the basic colors are laid in... Mixed my line color! a dark reddish color. I love this part. This is when the drawing gets tight.
11. Laid in the lines..
12. After all the lines were in, went back and pushed the value contrast of everything, so that the elements popped and looked more 3D.
13. Finished! signed my name in the corner. felt super good.
THE END!
p.s. i'll post the final tomorrow..
33 comments:
Thanks for this awesomely informative post! Makes me want to whip out my watercolors right now.
Great post, thanks. Fantastic art as usual.
Awesome to see it come together, I always love these making-of kind of posts.
Bro, this is so awesome! Thank you for taking the time to document the process. I've always wondered how you approach your amazing work, and now I have some idea!
this is great! How long did the whole process take?
Amazing, can't wait til tomorrow!
Scott, what a great piece of work! Nice of you to post your process shots... that mood wall is hilarious. Where'd you get that cool image of all the carnival tents? I also can't believe how many funny gags you put in... the brain bumper cars, sharing a head smoothie, rip headstone backboard, etc. Genius stuff.
Looking forward to peeping the final for more.
I nth all the positive inspirational love.
Your paintings always make me smile and it's very cool to see how watercolour (which has a very 'it's hard to use' rep) can come together so simply.
Excellent!! More making-of if you have the time! ^^
FANTAAAASTIC! How long did you take?
Congrats!
Gruesome and great - thanks for sharing the process Scott!
Is great to see the process - love your work!
This is soooooo great to see your process! Love stuff like this. And great painting too.
This looks fantastic and it's so fun to see it take shape!
Well I for one am disappointed. I had envisioned an assembly line of magical elves that are inspired by your creativity to create such masterpieces. Next you're going to tell me that you don't live inside an ancient oak tree. In spite of this I will continue to admire your always fantastic work.
thanks for the showing the whole process! I have been wondering how you get your watercolors to look so great. impressive.
This is fascinating and very inspiring! Your enjoyment of doing this really shows in the final result. And educational to see this effective method for working on big format. Thanks!
Wow. What a great post. You're awesome. awesome to the max.
This is super-inspiring and helpful. Thanks a ton for posting your process.
Wow, so cool! Thanks for posting your process! I have "Ninjas All Over The Place" hanging in my living room, and I still love staring at it and finding new little things I hadn't noticed before, like the kitty in the ninja suit, so good! haha!
B R A V O !!!!
Es increible!!!
You are God! XD
hooray for how tos! this is stellar man, thanks!
Nice!
I do a lot of watercolor & ink stuff, but I always have to pre-soak and stretch my paper so it doesn't buckle like hell when it dries. As far as I can tell, yours isn't stretched. What voodoo magic do you use to keep it in line??
A mood wall! I haven't thought about using one of those for comics or illustration before---just for giant paintings. Amazing! Also, I love how many drafts/lightboxing steps you go through. Being thorough is sexy.
Awesome! Loved following this on Twitter. What type of Watercolors do you use?
Just want you to know that many of us out here find this kind of peek behind the curtain to be extremely helpful. Many thanks for all the extra effort to do this step-by-step for us.
And great piece!
So great!!!
Wow cool! It's great to see your process! Water color is a battle I'd like to fight again someday. I love all the little gags in this piece!
Dude, this is SO RADICAL. thanks for posting your process...imagine if we did that for everything we do!?
This is my new fave Scott C. totally tubular piece. You rule, Dude.s
concept sketch! call it a concept sketch!
It's always fun to see the process. For me so much of art is in the process, not just the finished piece.
ohhhh yeahh man,
your are my hero!
another fan!
:D
god bless
Laqua
from Brazil
jajajajaja so funny, a zombie fair, and what they gonna eat caramel brains, the sketch and idea are so original I never see a concept like this before.
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For my part every person ought to go through it.
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