Tales and Legends - Jersey Devil
Jersey Devil [c. 2008]
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posted by Richard Cardona at
10:53 AM
1.26.2008
Jersey Devil [c. 2008]
Digital Print for Illustration Friday
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6 Comments:
Awesome illustration! Such great energy! I'd enjoy hearing about your process...
Scott, This was all done in Painter (8) using a variety of media brushes I've customized and grown fond of. I worked at 300 dpi at a 10 inch square size. In case I want to print it later at a decent resolution.
I generally started this very abstractly, and there were points where it was taking a different direction totally, and was becoming more "realistic" dark and gloomy drawing of the Jersey Devil as a man. I try to use the abstraction as a starting place to start to "see" what it suggests to me. I start messy and ugly. The uglier the better, because it gives me only room for improvement. It's kind of a cross between Jackson Pollack and 5 year-old artist when I start the abstraction stuff.
For this, I did not have a set image in my mind, except that I knew was working on the Jersey Devil as a "legend and tale". I was quite pleasantly surprised to see her emerge as a girl who wears glasses. My wife asked if I was drawing her, as she wears similar specs.
I used a Coarse spray brush (airbrush), that's the speckles, and constant color changes using the mixing pallete. soft pressure gives fine speckles and hard gives blurry large speckles.
Painter also lets you set paper texture, which is what you see in the left lens of her glasses (the yellow). Using a charcoal brush I've customized at varying pressure (I use a Wacom tablet to draw) gives the effect of dragging lightly over paper with a soft medium like conte or charcoal.
On a layer above the color layers, I use a black pen brush with thickness determined by pressure (and I come back and Lasso-delete some thick lines to vary them a bit - and redraw a lot).
I work back and forth in both layers, fine tuning along the way. Near the end the color was a bit too uniform so I selected the background away from the figure, and inverted the color, and then painted some more around it a bit so she would stick out more.
I don't like Painter's text handling so that was done after in Photoshop for the "I'm from Jersey text."
Maybe on the next one I do, I'll set up a sequential screen grab video of it too. That can be pretty interesting, to watch after the thing is done. For me anyway.
Thanks for asking... and for visiting!
Great work! Love her oversized head as well as the textures and little details. Thank you also very much for sharing your process!
Great technique.
I went to art scholl with a guy who claimed that his father was the Jersey Devil.
I really like the varied styles you have on offer here on your blog - it makes for very interesting viewing. This piece is particularly bold and expressive. Nice Illustration.
LOL - I like the jersey devil as girly geek - lovely textures and use of colour, and I like the energy too.
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