Previously I have posted a
map for a children's book and now I can show you the beginnings of an interior colour illustration for the same book.
Above you can see the two roughs I produced to flesh out my favourite thumbnail sketch. On the top is a line drawing designed to show where it character appears in the composition, beneath that is a smaller sketch that outlines the basic values in the composition.
I quickly came to realise that a simple 3 value structure would apply to this painting - dark foreground, mid-tone middle-ground and light background. Dan dos Santos has done a fantastic post about this compositional technique on
Muddy Colors.
So here we have a more detail sketch which shows the value structure I was after. As you can see the car has done a disappearing act and the main characters have been enlarged and their poses tweaked.
Hopefully in the next week I will get permission to show you the finished illustration.
1 comment:
This works really well Chris. It's got great depth to it. Celia Carlile
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