Some more Art Process Images (Patreon)
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Was pretty warmed up so everything here is very gestural - actually no, thats a lie. I warm up as I go. Theres a big difference between that first sketch and the amount of detail I needed to the ones later along.
In the second panel I just took prompto's face from the first and enlarged it before redrawing it with more detail - It's a continuation of that expression so unless I was changing the angle there's no point wasting time.
You often hear people saying stuff like that is cheating but listen - using the tools available to you is resourcefulness. That would be like saying that you couldn't use an eraser in a pencil drawing. People just trying to bring others down for using initiative. Nahhh.
This is how I usually draw these types of sequences - just enlarge the canvas as I go
My canvas is 5000x5000 and I sketch at 25% and draw at 33% I used to use 3000x3000 and sketch and draw at 50% and 75% respectively but I really wanted to work on drawing bigger so this has worked super well for me.
I also find it easier to draw small on the screen (Cintiq21UX) so I see almost the whole figure to avoid proportional mishaps but that option isn't available to everyone.
While drawing this I kept picking up my water bottle to see how the hands would be in this scene. Your most accessible reference is yourself.
I used transform to move and rotate Prom's head and shoulders around quite a bit to get him resting in the V of the broken table 'comfortably'
Also you can see that I changed my mind on his leg placement in the end result
The NSFW sketches will always be the better ones for process just because they take a bit more figuring out
Gladio's head is too big here - could do with being shrunk down a bit.
I had actually saved this with the intent for it to just be the Ignis on the left but no sooner than I'd done that did I think about having a mirrored image.
And then it needed to be coloured. This whole pic was a bit of a fluke. It's easy to play around when you're warming up.
Another idea I had later:
I'll post some more processes later!