Lantern Draft
Took longer that I thought it would but it’s finally finished:
We have, from left to right, Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, Darth Vader from Star Wars, Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Link from The Legend of Zelda, Guts from Berserk, Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin and Superman. I explain my reasoning behind these choices in this post so let’s talk specifically about this piece.
After the break of course.
So yeah, no background. I wanted a space backdrop but I didn’t feel confident in rendering a space setting in Photoshop. I googled images of space to see if one of those would serve as a decent background but found none that were to my liking so I just went with boring white.
I handled color a little different than usual here because I wanted to get more of a comic book coloring feel. After laying my flats with a brush, I used the lasso tool to select an area and then I kept filling that in with a gradient at 60 something opacity until I got the desired results (or something close to that anyway). I really liked how Jessica’s costume came out because of this method and I’m looking forward to more practice with it because I feel this piece in particular is a little rough around the edges coloring wise.
I knew I wanted Link’s sword and shield to be constructs so I used color holds on them (and all of the character’s “auras”) to give them a lighter feel. I made a conscious effort to not go too crazy with that though and I think it adds without detracting. I also made sure to use a lot of references for color samples so as to keep this stuff of close to the source material as possible. For example, the Blue Lanterns are more of a light blue color and I wanted to make sure I got that kind of stuff down right.
This piece took a while to complete but, oddly enough, I don’t have much to say about it. I was going to break down each character individually but even then I feel as if I could only say a sentence or two about each so I’ll just stop.
Here’s the sweet (and required) progress animation:
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Real nice work man. Big ups.
P.s Is kenshin like 8 feet tall or what?
Well, he’s kinda floating.
His body starts around where Guts’ left arm is.
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