05 April 2023

Illustration: 3 new illustrations for my short story


 As usual, as I started this project I was hating how it was coming out but in the end I am pretty happy with the look of these drawings. I wanted a sort of wood carving look like I see in some old books from over 100 years ago. Simple and heavily relying on a white ink on black paper  style. I placed them in the document and I think they look appropriate for the story and I will likely do another similar project at some point. The next step is to make "Pulled Towards the Sea" into a 3 animation that won't be to influenced by these drawings, I would like ti to be it's own thing. 

Drawing in both Procreate and Affinity photo. I actually did some experimenting with AI art and was not surprised how disappointing it was, even for inspiration. I get that it can be fun t tell the computer to make a picture of something using a few words and then seeing what it does but despite what we see online, in reality the AI art is pretty bad. Photoshop has a different way of using it now it seems, where you can iterate sections of an image and keep fine tuning it, even using your own photos as reference so maybe that could be useful. Much more fun and satisfying to do it yourself! 

2 comments:

T' said...

I won't even start on AI as it makes me incredibly angry. I like the three illustrations! But why don't you want the animated film to be influenced by them at all?

Behemoth media said...

Because I want the illustrations and animation to be their own separate thing. I think the written story has its own feel and I want the animation to be free to be what it ends up being and 3D, at least mostly. I don't really want to animate anything with this look. At least not right now. I am probably just being arty= farty.