KNACK Magazine - The New Child Labor
A lot of children do the household chores. Caring for their siblings or sick parent.
Details
- PROCES -
Thumbnail sketch
REFERENCES FOR THE POSES
Quick photoshoot with my daughter Selma - drawing of Egon Schiele, sculpture of Pierre Hughe
REFINING THE SKETCH
I Refined the sketch in photoshop with wacom.
Digital sketching allows me to work in layers and easily cut, paste and manipulate the different elements.
'INKING'
I print the sketch A4 size > Lightbox tracing in blue pencil
Then I draw the linework, with pencil
I remove the blue sketchy lines digitally (Image > adjustments > hue/saturation, edit: cyaan)
I Increase the contrast and bitmap the image (= No halftones but a sharp, graphic line)
This way I have sharp graphic lines which are at the same time loose & grainy
COLORING:
I start with flat shapes. Because my lines aren't closed I can't use the bucket tool.
So a bit more work but with the wacom tablet it's ok.
Last Step: I fill in some shapes with textures and patterns
And a bit of extra lines & dots (colored & white) with wacom, The black line I changed to a dark blue/purple.
The texture for the peignoir & sofa is pencil > increase contrast, bitmap
I like graphical patterns, I discovered and used sashimi here (nice Japanese sticking patterns) and a carpet
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