Wednesday, December 31, 2014

BONNE ANNEE Step by Step Part 1 Pencils

Here's a look behind how we made our Holiday Card for this year.


Original art ending up being humongous. I started it out on 13" x 19" Strathmore 500 2 Ply Bristol board but I ended up having to add more paper so the final art is 20 x 19 inch.



Drawing the art with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil and Staedtler HB Lead.



Decided to change the pose slightly so the left hand was feeding the apple to the horse.



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And brought the main character's legs closer together as I remembered I was drawing a dress not jodhpurs



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Refining the main character



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Wanted to nail down the dress and cape with messing up the drawing so did it on tracing paper so I could be nice and loose...



Traced off the dress and cape and began adding little details - necklace, stars belt etc.



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Finish the dress and the the ground the horse is standing on.



Finishing up the horse - which way is the wind blowing, btw?



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The final pencil art before Rachel inks it ...

Up next 

PART TWO


TD




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