Disconsolate Godzilla and the thought process...
Categories: artwork
Tags: Nomad Brush, Dagi, digital artwork, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Hudl, LetsHudl, new trent, disconsolate godzilla
Date: 05 December 2013 09:23:37
I've been noodling around on a picture for a couple of days now and thought it sums up the creation process in a couple of nice ways. So here, for a change, is a little bit about the thought process of a pic and the creation of it from start to near finish.
I generally start with a series of quickly drawn lines and squiggles. More often than not I don't know what I'll be drawing until I'm half way through them and I'll say to myself 'that looks like a...' and go from there. Occasionally that'll inform where some of the squiggles go next.
Once that's done I'll start blocking in colours - I'll try and save some process pics sometime soon. This one was being drawn on a Hudl tablet (currently my favourite) in a pub where I sat down to chill between doing a couple of hours of tablet art youth work and getting my bus home. From squiggle to this point the above pics took about 45 minutes.
Once that parts done I try and take some time way from an image, but I don't always (very impatient, me). In this case I carried on working on the picture on the bus home and found that I liked both the text and the buildings so chose to move a couple of things around.
When I moved the text I found that the right hand side of the image was pretty empty so I added some planes and explosions in... but that unbalanced the left hand side so I added a spire in to the left most skyscraper.
The next morning - I tend to wake up a little too early - I added some more details in, fine detail stuff like the dragon skin which isn't very noticeable but I like the texture it adds.
And there you have it, I think. Don't think I'll do any more so it's on to the next thing (which turned out to be >>this<<, ironically). Top to tail the above pics probably took three hours to draw but that was all forwards momentum stuff, sometimes a picture fights and sometimes it goes onto the screen fairly naturally.
All drawn on Hudl tablet using a Dagi and New Trent stylus and Nomad brush, all of which are a joy to use. The app was Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro which I like loads and more every time I use it.
And why (as I've been asked on Twitter) is Godzilla sad? Well, I guess life isn't always too kind to lumbering, graceless creatures sometime. But hey ho, I'm sure he'll be up and running, knocking over buildings and eating cars soon enough...