Today is an happy day for me. I got a phone call from a friend that requested me to paint his caricature poster digitally. For me, it is a breath of fresh air because I spend a lot of my time with animation work. After receiving the email from him, I was very surprised because the poster was quite tough to handle especially when there are a few characters and it contains the background that is quite detailed.
I dare not reject for fear of disappointing him. So I took up this challenging piece of work with the hope that at least with the sndbox entry I can make some impact. I decided to engage in the details. So lets get started in the step by step process.
After mulling over it for a while, I was thinking what made this lady so special that so many guys are after her. It is okay, we start by making a few adjustment to the black and white contrast in order to get the depth of value field on the grayscale. A few parts of the drawing needs touch up by using the spray brush so that the quality of gray is at a satisfactory level. All objects and characters must be separated by layers.
I start the colouring process with the background first and when I managed to get the feel after the characters are coloured. This process I use layer screen for the change to the grayscale layer that I created earlier. At the foremost building I use the lasso and pen tools to get the intricacies on the front correct.
After I finish with the background earlier, I shift to each and every character that is at the forefront. Here the astuteness of the details is very important. Again I will have to know each character to get the quality that is acceptable to me as my reference for a correct colour.
For the final process it takes quite a while because of the number of characters. I use the brush screen and overlay to change the grayscale. I get the basic colours touched up based on original sketch that was given. After being satisfied with the process, I now use the elevl colour to balance the colour on the poster. Now you can see the result.
This is the final result. I was quite satisfied professionally although it took me some time. It is satisfaction such as this when I see my friend finally being able to enjoy this piece that I took a long time to complete.
credit to @zomagic
That nice steem cartoon you are the best
Thank you fuaddin ..appreciate that :)
Smart bro..keep up the good work. Azhar Abdullah ni yang buat liga pendekar tu ke bro?
yup..betul tu ..tq. bro.
The caricatures look great. My favorite is the one with the guy and the claws looking outside the window while sweating. Hahaha.
hahaha..thanks dude.
padan rasa cam penah tengok..abam aura kaler..padan la best! :)
haha belasah jer..tunggu post terbaru demo juga ni ..