Illustration Friday

illustration friday 

this weeks topic is punch 

All ready I'm thinking of ways I can make this fit my style. I think it's rather fitting because of the comic style but I don't want to to anything expected I want to play around with composition and angles of the frame with this one I want the skills and the composition to be the impact not the punch. Again I'm going to come at thins in pencil and finish of with a digital ending. 

To do list.

Research inspiration - 1 hour

Thumbnails              -  1 hour

Roughs.                   - 30 mins

Page work.              - 2 hours 

Digital                      - 2 hours 

I left this project so latest minuet. So the above action plan went down the drain. I still did all of that but in the space of two hours. I got so lost in other projects this week I forgot about this project. 

So here's my quick and shame full attempt at illustration Friday.

Thumbnail ideas.

Even though I said I wanted to take another approach and don't want to be all cliche about this, I had to. I didn't have the time to experiment and get stuck in on it. So a cliche punch it is.

Above. I started to play around with other characters try to aim this brief at an audiance. I drew quick thumb nails of mario hitting the mooshroom like the old game boy game. I then drew the Star Wars scene were solo says punch it chewie. These would have worked and maybe if not better than the chosen one I went with but I feel that at the end of this I was a set that go together.

So maybe 10 illustrations that work as a set.

So I chose the ring thumbnail. I think positioning was key on this one, movement and the were abouts of the characters need to spot on to make this image work. So I have a few attempts to experiment that. I couldn't do loads because the clock was ticking on the dead line.

Above. My final rough for the illustration 

Ink stage.

Really not happy with this out come but Iv only my self to blame for leaving my self with a short space of time to create an illustration. The boxer in the back ground is well out of whack. Too much body showing for his position. His head should be more to the right and hidden. Just horrible judgment...and rushed.

Now it's finished. I feel slightly better out it just because it looks like part of the set now but still makes me sick to see that diformed man in the back. When I look at him I hear a very old British posh accent " I say my good man... Take this to the end of your chin "