THE GREAT RUN
Personal Project
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
- Leonardo Da Vinci
I frequently find myself looking at great work thinking "how would I even start?"
The truth is that there's a process behind everything and it's often easy to overlook it and assume that great artists use nothing but a magic wand.
This case study shows what could happen if you try to improve a crappy drawing until it reaches a state you can call 'done'.
This illustration is the final course project for Edgar Rozo's 'Geometric Illustration with Volume' course on Domestika. Check it out, it's pretty cool and only 15 bucks.
This sketch was my place to start. I could have easily abandoned this piece of junk with an excuse like 'yeah I reckon I should never touch a pencil again'.
But could I also improve it?
Let's redraw it a couple of times. Much better. But it's missing context
There we go! But I feel like I could add some interest. The characters are missing.. 'character'.
Let's add some detail and a background. Already looking much better.
Who doesn't love to vectorize pencil drawings in illustrator!? Definitely me. But it's an invaluable step for the upcoming shading process.
Here I took the refined sketch from before and added some rough lighting. This was my guide for the shading process. I learned this in Edgar Rozos Course.
Element by element I stated to add lights and shadows on 400% zoom. As a Motion Designer I don't do this a lot so, again, watching Edgar do it on his Illustrations helped a lot. apprx. 50h later everything was covered.
Moral of the story:
Value the process!
Thank you!
