Illustration: gardien du temp 14

 

A second illustration of the same acrobat, this time in colour. I decided to go back to my original technique of doing colour illustrations, only not in photoshop but in Affinity Photo and on the iPad. I have to admit I have problems with the iPad when drawing. I keep hitting the screen in ways that change the toolI am using or accidentally undo something. In Photo every time I come a brush and clicked on a different layer the brush switched to the eraser which was super frustrating. I have to stop drawing on the couch and move back to my drawing table in the studio. Other than that this went really well. I broke the image into sections and drew it all in greyscale then used a filter to recolour the grey into a basic skin colour, for example. then I could add addition tints with brushes to make it more varied and realistic. I also add leg/chest etc. hair on an upper layer. I might go back to this for other illustrations as it was easier to to have a higher level of detail. 

drawing: acrobate suspendu 02

 Another in my acrobat series but this time done with paint brushes in Krita. It looks a lot my colour drawings but that isn't really a bad thing. I often work in colour by doing it all in grey scale and recolouring then adding addition touches, but this time I just picked different paint colours and blended  them in. 

Definitely a challenge but it was easier than I anticipated. I think all the drawing I have been doing lately especially in Krita has paid off in being comfortable trying this and not automatically thinking it was just going to fail big time. 

Sadly, my ability to get tons of reference images from all the free cirque shows were normally get here in Montréal was cut off this past summer because of the pandemic cancelling everything. So this is something I found in a folder from years ago. Maybe this summer I can get new references to work from? 

new drawing: balance 02 - acrobat series

Trying to expand and loosen up my work a little more. I really like this sort of style and have done a couple drawings in it over the years. I deliberately kept the pencil size larger than normal so I could resist the urge to go into super detail like I do in pen and ink. I drew this in the iPad using Sketchbook pro and did some extra work, like the text in Affinity Photo for the iPad. I think the addition of white pencil makes it pop out.