Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Page 20 Finished Illustration


Painting this illustration was fairly simple, it was adjusting the scan that proved to be troublesome.  Pretty much all the colors had to be adjusted.  I did a lot of color balance adjustment layers and I managed to get the scan to match the original as close as possible.  The colors in the scan always seem to be slightly darker than the original.  Still, I am happy with the results.  When painting, I just treated the dragon as part of the background, almost as if I was painting a landscape.  The fox is the only area of the painting with absolute darks ( paynes grey ).

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Pages 18 and 19 Finished Illustrations




This is my first double page spread!  It was a lot of fun to create but it also required a lot of thinking since it is such a complex composition.  It was a fun challenge.  Adjusting the colors of the scanned images took a few days since I had to do a lot of complicated layer masks.  It seems my scanner likes to cool down any and all warm colors so I had to adjust all the yellow greens, oranges and magentas.  I have 12 more pages to go and I hope to have most of it done by the end of summer!