Painting Technique - Monkey Cover #2



Here is step two. I've cleaned up the pencil drawing considerably. Using tracing paper I redrew the piece cleaning things up as I went. I scanned some elements into Photoshop to move and/or resize them then I printed and traced again until I was happy with it. (I go through a lot of tracing paper.) Also I went back into Illustrator and established a horizon line so I could draw all the elements that have to be in perspective (in this case the rows of bus seats) Illustrator is great for that because I can easily make my vanishing points pretty far off the edge of the page if I need to.

I think I am pretty happy with it now. We got the monkey on meds and he's no long looking like he's going to kill someone. And since there are nine animals in the story I wanted to fit them all on the bus some how so now they are all there.

Bus number 68 just happens to be the bus my kids take to school in the morning. Although Carol their bus driver is MUCH better looking and her tail is much shorter (just kidding Carol!)

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Anonymous said…
The part that is cool about you using Illustrator is. . .that because I did technical illustration for years I have hesitated to use it. . .or any other form of perspective and I think my work looks rough sometimes because of it. I just did an assigment and did persective in Illustrator and it worked great. I am so glad to see you use it too. . .I love your work and think it looks fresh. You have inspired me to use all my tools. . .thanks!

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