Wherever you are I hope you’re having a good day :)
I’m over half way to finishing the storyboards of all 20 pages for the coloring project, and by this time next week I’ll have had a meeting with the technical review board to go over all the pages and see what everyone’s opinions are. These are a few of my favorite pages that I’ve worked on this week, but as a reminder you can see all of them here on github as I upload them! Perspective has caused me some trouble this week but I’ve laid out my troubles and solutions. For the next week I’m just going to be working hard to finish these up for the weekend, and then get ready whatever presentation I need to for the technical review.
I finally got Snow into a kimono surrounded by koinobori (carp-shaped windsocks) which is only one panel, but I think I can go back into the pages and add some nods to her being Japanese :) Obviously theres more to being Japanese then just this!
the process
On Wednesday I finished one of the more complicated perspective wise pieces and as I worked on it i took some screenshots to share how I build something like this. I’ve always been slightly intimidated by backgrounds but this past semester we were being thrown into them even more (think like throwing a baby into the pool when you’re teaching them to float) and this is a great challenge.
This is the finished image.
I can still tell that there are a few areas that make my eyes squint with “Something’s off” but for now it is fine, and if I can’t figure it out I can ask some people who’s perspective skills are higher than mine for advice.
I should have made the canvas a bit bigger for this process but honestly I forgot I could have marked the canvas boarder, enlarge it, and then cropped it back later. But the first step is to pick the points for your perspective, this being two point, I had one on the page, and one off the page (the problem child haha). I also added some vertical lines throughout the page.
Grabbed a reference of what my oven area wanted to look like and started drawing Snow White and her pie. I later changed the angle, as well as the position of her arm. This was a pretty busy scene and I wasn’t sure if I should have this be in a back room setting or split, and I ended up including the smaller box to show a back room with Tekton and Service Mesh.
I’m pretty content with Snow White, the oven and the shelf and I actually started drawing Service Mesh out here, before remembering he’d be doing a different job. Time to draw the baked goods!
This was the last screenshot I took as most of the perspective and background was built, and the rest of the page went pretty quickly!
I hope you are all having a good week and enjoyed this little look into my process.
-Madeline