Post #597566 by GROG on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 2:30 PM

Excellent example Master Thor. GROG love seeing artists work-in-progress shots. (P.S. Your painting for the new Tiki Magazine cover looks great.)

GROG did the same thing with GROG' Mermaid and Moai statue. However, the original drawing was done in blue col-erase pencil on animation paper. GROG scanner not work with new computer, so GROG take digital photo to get it into computer. GROG then did several different quick color thumbnails in Photoshop to work out color, lighting, and mood. Eventually GROG want to do the final as traditional art, but the computer definitefly sped up the thumbnail developement stage.( It would go even faster if GROG would hook GROG' Cintiq up instead of painting on the computer with a mouse!) You can also see how GROG changed the mermaid head to face the Moai by adding it on in Photoshop, and also in the first color thumbnail you can se how GROG shrink the mermaid in the piece. Both changes took minutes in Photoshop, but like Thor said, would have taken much longer to redraw tradionally.

GROG miss Tiki-Kate

[ Edited by: grog 2011-07-14 18:36 ]