I will try and Make one these
"How I do my art" blogs once a week, since I have work and the new puppy to take care of, now About half the time, no, probably more than half the time I Draw something; the image that ends up on paper is not what I had originally in mind so try to just let go and free your mind, you might end up surprising yourself.
I'm going to share the steps I take to make some creepy art work.
lets see what I use..
1. Pencils
2. Micron pens
3. Plain white paper (if your going to use markers to color, make sure its paper that wont spread the ink.
4. Prisma coloring markers
5. Good Eraser
I usually have all kinds of pencil sizes on hand to help me, but a good old number 2 pencil works just fine, I keep a separate eraser next to me because I never trust the eraser the pencil comes with, some times crappy erasers can smudge the picture or even tear your paper.
Lately Ive been wanting to draw something pretty typical of a horror movie poster, or from a horror movie scene; the damsel running in distress from something lurking in the shadows, she thinks whatever it is that was chasing her gave up...WRONG!..you know what I mean.
So we'll start with a sketch of a woman's body, and lets add a shadowy figure in the back..I still don't know what I'm going to put back there.
I want a reaction from the woman, so shes probably going to be screaming in shock of whatever it is that's grabbing her, this monster.
My favorite type of monster is a monster that has human features, so we'll go with that.
Now my Monster it seems is part from a larger monster that we cannot see, I guess it leaves a little room for the imagination, I also gave a long mouth with some shark looking teeth and some extra eyes to give it some extra creepiness, this girl is scared shitless yo.
Now lets finish the woman, I drew our creature grabbing and twisting her poor little neck, while giving her a little lick too, salty?
Now lets get to my favorite part, the inking; I like to use micron pens because they're good quality, I've used them for a very long time and can last you a while. I like to use a size 3 pen for out lining, and a number 1 pen for details and shading (line work).
As soon as I finish outlining everything, I make sure i didn't miss anything, and sometimes its good to give it a second run.
I use a light peach for the skin color of the creature and a suntan color for the darker areas, I'm going to leave the woman completely white since Im thinking of just making the background all black, it will look cool. :)
Now a green dress, once I have the basic colors I'm going to use I start whatever detail I'm going to add, this can take me from thirty minutes to an hour depending on the drawing, and is probably the most important part.
After all the detail is done, I can start coloring the detailed areas I just drew and use any extra colors to make it look better and color the whole background black, once the drawing is complete I scan it using a high DPI and do some touch up work on photoshop.
now here is the finished product. (click on it to see bigger image)
PEACE.
