Using the Pen Tool
P E N T O O L P R A C T I C E
Using the pen tool was both a hard and easy experience. Previously in digital art you can simply draw a line and the line will appear. However when working with vectors it is more mathematical and precise. The first attempt was tracing the design on the left. Following a video you can duplicate shapes, rotate and adjust the lines after they are made. The lines were also super clean in comparison to my shakey and sketchy hand.
After that I moved on to drawing Dragonite (work in progress). This was my second attempt because the first attempt was unsuccessful. I was cued into my drawing habits of like I was inking or drawing line art. I wasn't paying attention to how the shapes fit together or how they fill. You can't use a paint bucket, but you can utilize layering and arrangement to create the colored shapes that you want. This picture above has 4 layers including the photo layer and it took some learning to figure out the coloring.
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| My Rendition |
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| Original Image |
your character looks very realistic and I love all the highlights and shadows.
ReplyDeleteIt was so close it took me a solid minute to figure out that you did not just pull up a photo of dragonite. nice job!!
ReplyDeleteImpressive use of shading on the caricature, and the outline is very accurate!
ReplyDeleteI like how you created depth in the character using shadow! It looks very professional.
ReplyDeleteIt looks exactly like the actual dragonite especially with all of the shading
ReplyDeletei thought it was just the reference image at first
ReplyDeleteyou're recreation looks so much like the original ! I like how you added the different shading to make it have more detail and look more realistic
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