
Top stuff, but a tad on the large side. 50-100k is generally the range for still images.
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Sat 7 Feb 2009, 15:50,
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first I do a cartoon sketch on tracing paper to get the energy and bending the lines and such. Not that tight, just to get the feel. Then I scan that in. Then i search out photos that I can use for texture, and i cut and bend them to fit the cartoon. That is really the key, bending the photo into your sketch. Like the shitmonster piece was cow manure that i got looking pretty fresh, I am on a mac using a wacom tablet for airbrushing. I guess i sort of invented this technique of illustration because i have not seen anyone else do it before, it is a whole lot easier than it looks, and it is super fast for results. Here is my favorite stock photo link, they have a ton of high res pics www.photolibrary.com/index.html?event=updateRegion&kc=1&tid=18
thanks for listening
oh, and the way to get the nice fade from pink fresh prawn to the stinky rotten prawn, is just make two layers, one pink and one gray, then erase the top one to reveal in places, works great. The grass and the tombstones are just cut off of photos, makes for quick work. And for the hands i photographed my own hands, which was perfect because my hands always look like that.
I only wish i had put less lightning and more of the fumes of horrific odor coming off them.
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Sat 7 Feb 2009, 17:39,
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thanks for listening
oh, and the way to get the nice fade from pink fresh prawn to the stinky rotten prawn, is just make two layers, one pink and one gray, then erase the top one to reveal in places, works great. The grass and the tombstones are just cut off of photos, makes for quick work. And for the hands i photographed my own hands, which was perfect because my hands always look like that.
I only wish i had put less lightning and more of the fumes of horrific odor coming off them.