Work In Progress
Empire Strikes Back 83 Redux
This is part of an unfinished illustration drawn when I was probably 15. As a teenager I copied this from a comic book adaptation of Empire Strikes Back. Below is my original unfinished drawing. This is another personal project in a recent series to further my knowledge and experience with Affinity Photo, but it may remain unfinished indefinitely because my ambition involves colorization, and so far this job is very time consuming.
My original was drawn on 15x20 inch illustration board—a fairly big area and I might've gone overboard with a scan of 900PPI. My intention is to clean it up, finish Chewbacca and the environment then colorize using Affinity Photo or maybe Affinity Designer's Pixel Persona, I haven't decided. Clean up is taking too long. Adjustment Layers only get me so far, requiring painting of nearly every stroke and fill, this is troubling. My original was inked using Rapidographs (remember those?) and maybe it has aged because the ink isn't terribly dense or black. I'll try a technique I haven't used before: the Brush tool with black or white color in Overlay mode—saw that in a video, it might help.
This is the 1980 comic I copied from, the talented artists are Al Williamson and Carlos Garson. The only significant change I made was R2-D2, oh and C-3POs hand. I know, big deal.
