A Cure Parts 6 and 7
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pennswoodsJust documenting the next stages of my WIP for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emmagrant01's John/Sherlock fic, A Cure for Boredom. This consists of the tracing and erasing followed by my first bits of coloring.
* For the curious, prior drafts of this piece can be seen at the links below:
Parts I and II
Parts III and IV
Par V
Part VI
I typically use the S (super-fine point) Pitt pens to outline the lineart and then erase the pencil before coloring. I typically use Sanguine for skin and lighter hair and black for everything else. This makes for a very sharp defined line which sometimes doesn't blend well with the colored pencil. To avoid this sharpness, I traced John's and Sherlock's faces using a colored pencil in a similar color and a black colored pencil for the wallpaper design in the background. This means both can be a bit softer and possibly out of focus (ideal for the background, which I've already fudged). Unfortunately, I find it more difficult to erase my pencil marks around colored pencil as it sometimes leads to smearing. Eventually, when i color, the remaining pencil lines mix with the colored pencil and result in a muddier look.
Doesn't Sherlock look horribly demonic here! :D
Part VII And finally the color begins. I scanned this on my mini-laptop, which doesn't have the same color adjustment features for images that I typically use, so the result is more washed out than in RL. I think Sherlock is looking better (and far less demonic) now than in the lineart, but he still looks quite young. I'll be going back later to darken everything once the base colors are in place and that may age him up a bit. However, this is where I find working with real actors as models for fanart very difficult. In trying to incorporate features from the actors in the show, I sort of lose control of my drawing.
However, the biggest thing troubling me right now is the color of the sofa. In numerous photos, it looks to be a sort of puke/olive/greenish/yellowish brown. I don't have a single marker or pencil in precisely this color, so I'm going to have to blend them a bit. Since it's such a big part of the background, I don't want it to clash too horribly with all the other colors. Again, I'll throw it into shadow and darken it later, but I'm a bit lost about the base color. Any advice?
emmagrant01's John/Sherlock fic, A Cure for Boredom. This consists of the tracing and erasing followed by my first bits of coloring. * For the curious, prior drafts of this piece can be seen at the links below:
Parts I and II
Parts III and IV
Par V
Part VI
I typically use the S (super-fine point) Pitt pens to outline the lineart and then erase the pencil before coloring. I typically use Sanguine for skin and lighter hair and black for everything else. This makes for a very sharp defined line which sometimes doesn't blend well with the colored pencil. To avoid this sharpness, I traced John's and Sherlock's faces using a colored pencil in a similar color and a black colored pencil for the wallpaper design in the background. This means both can be a bit softer and possibly out of focus (ideal for the background, which I've already fudged). Unfortunately, I find it more difficult to erase my pencil marks around colored pencil as it sometimes leads to smearing. Eventually, when i color, the remaining pencil lines mix with the colored pencil and result in a muddier look.
Doesn't Sherlock look horribly demonic here! :D
Part VII And finally the color begins. I scanned this on my mini-laptop, which doesn't have the same color adjustment features for images that I typically use, so the result is more washed out than in RL. I think Sherlock is looking better (and far less demonic) now than in the lineart, but he still looks quite young. I'll be going back later to darken everything once the base colors are in place and that may age him up a bit. However, this is where I find working with real actors as models for fanart very difficult. In trying to incorporate features from the actors in the show, I sort of lose control of my drawing.
However, the biggest thing troubling me right now is the color of the sofa. In numerous photos, it looks to be a sort of puke/olive/greenish/yellowish brown. I don't have a single marker or pencil in precisely this color, so I'm going to have to blend them a bit. Since it's such a big part of the background, I don't want it to clash too horribly with all the other colors. Again, I'll throw it into shadow and darken it later, but I'm a bit lost about the base color. Any advice?
