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The Assembly Line
Finished and Unfinished Art By Cartoonist/Illustrator Len Peralta
Flat color added to the Clare Grant pinup. Once I start adding the effects, shading and highlights, this drawing will really start coming alive. It’s always amazing to me when that happens. In other news, I am trying out the new SmudgeGuard on the recommendation of fellow artist, George Coghill. I’ll probably post my thoughts later.
I added some flat color to the pencil sketch of Michele this afternoon. I’d probably finish this tomorrow. I forsee a lot of layers added to this file to get the desired effect I want. I’m interested to see how it turns out. It’s been great saving these snapshots of the process as I go along. I sometimes forget how much work goes into these portraits.
In any event, back at it tomorrow.
Flat color added to Milynn’s sketch this morning. I also added Kilala’s second tail, which I had forgotten in the original sketch. More in a bit…
Woke up wanting to get this Rileah piece done. Added the flat color to the drawing. I’m going to go effects heavy on this one to give a painterly style. Because of that, the coloring was less precise than on Jessica’s piece. I want this to look really soft, so I’ll be covering up details and letting others show. Let’s see if I can pull it off.
I dropped flat color into Jessica’s drawing this morning. Something wasn’t clicking with me, so I tried changing the palette to resemble the Little Annie Fanny look a little more. I don’t know how I feel about it. Jessica is very light-skinned and having her turn close to orange doesn’t really jibe with her personality. I’ll play around with it this morning some more as I add the effects and shadows to the file.
Today, I was able to carve out some time to do some flat color. This was a quick pass, just to put some basic color onto the image. I’ll go in and add the effects and shadow in the next pass. It’s always amazing to me how the art comes alive when I start adding some simple shadow and glows. More to come…
