I've been working this week on a commission for a lady in America who wanted a creature created by mixing a sunfish and a swallow. There is a lovely story to go with this and although the artwork was meant as a surprise for her partner, she couldn't wait to show him. I decided to take some photos along the way so that she could see the process involved in making her artwork.
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| 1. First some of my better roughs were emailed and a design selected. |
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2. Original Drawing scanned, printed larger and then transferred to paper using Tracedown.
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3. Original markings erased so that image just shows through - enough to make an ink outline, using pen.
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| 4. The start of shading in the image using pen. |
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5. The final artwork which is then scanned and opened in Photoshop.
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6. SunSwallow selected and background deleted. I used a mask and brush tool to tidy up the edges of the image, duplicated the layer and adjusted the histogram and contrast to match the original more closely.
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| 7. The original document was saved, flattened and then dragged to a new document with the required image size. The outside of the image was cropped and then the final image saved. The original .psd file remains intact with all its layers. |
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| SunSwallow by Maria Forrester |
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