Thursday, November 24, 2016

The Hired Hand process

Here's a post about the making of the illustration I did for Arrow Films blu-ray release of The Hired Hand.

My first sketch was drawn in Procreate on the iPad, and was approved straight away.














I then imported that into Manga Studio and started adding layers of photo ref, screen-grabbed from a dvd of the movie along with a photo of my legs to add to the main figure...














A tight pencil drawing was then done over that on a new layer...














Then I added a layer of rough airbrush colours, along with a scan of some real paper textures...


Then I started drawing into that with coloured pencils. I did the big head first...














And then the rest...













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4 comments:

  1. Unknown9:05 am

    This is awesome! I'm actually a writer but I also draw out of nessecity/fun and I've recently been using a Microsoft surface with photoshop. I believe I read you correctly that you've switched over to digital for kill or be killed (which I think is by far your best work yet!) and I was curious about your process so this helps a lot! But I was also curious if you have any digital process videos online somewhere I could check out because I'm eager to learn more!
    Keep up the stellar work!
    Thanks
    -luis

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  2. Dan Cooney8:44 pm

    Thanks for sharing your process for this project, Sean. Beautiful work! May I ask what type of color pencils you use? Sometimes I go back over my color pencil work with ink and looking for something less waxy. Keep up the inspiring work. Cheers, Dan

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  3. PullingPictures5:02 pm

    great stuff

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  4. andie1:39 am

    Ahh wow. Thanks for the in depth insight to your process. This is gold star stuff.

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