You always save the best for last, right? The last character of the 10 character challenge I was doing. Green Lantern. I wanted to do Hal Jordan, because I did see the movie, and I felt most familiar with that character... But I also wanted to do something non conventional for American comics. I wanted to do a watercolor, that much I knew for sure, but I wasn't sure who's art style I wanted to mimic for this piece. Then it dawned on me... Yoshitaka Amano. He would make a perfect subject for me to try his style. So without further interuption, I'll get onto the pictures...
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| Rough draft sketch using 9H graphite pencil. |
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| Once the pencil work was finalized, I set to work Inking the lines with a Sakura Pigma Micron .005. |
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| Then I switched to my Brush and Inks, starting with my finest point brush and "cutting in" all the edges. |
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| Then I switched up to a larger brush to fill all the empty spaces. |
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| This particular piece is on 9" x 12" drawing paper, which almost fits on my scanner bed, so I went ahead and scanned it in black and white. I really like how clean it looks. |
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| Then I set to work painting with water color. I underpainter using Prismacolor watercolor pencils, then switched over to a wash of yellow, then a dry brushing, then the same for orange, then black, then green until finished. |
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| With the piece completed I went ahead and scanned it into the computer, then uploaded it to photshop, did just a couple little minor adjustments, and this is the final result. |
