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Process: BBQ Viking Pig


Time for another illustration process post! Here’s the request: A happy pig in a viking helmet. The helmet needs to be cock-eyed so that one of his ears is poking out and he needs to have a fat belly. I’m going to go into the actual Photoshop process more than I ever do, cialis usa ask so it might get a bit technical. Here is the first sketch:

I decided to do another one with his face turned more toward the viewer:

I couldn’t decide between the two at first, viagra generic viagra and ultimately chose to send the first sketch because I liked his expression better. After reviewing the sketch, medical the client decided that they wanted just a “head shot”, not the full body, and they wanted to see just a little more of his face (I knew it!) The hat needed to be skewed just a little more as well.

The sketch is approved and the pig as been christened Rufus. Final comments are to fatten him up a bit by addding another chin.

The first thing I do is draw the individual elements, such as the head, ears, eyes and such using the pen tool in photoshop. Then I draw the “mask” shapes I use for shading and helping to further define the other elements. I draw these masks in a bright color so I can tell them apart from everything else and so I can select them quickly in the layers palette

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It seems these days that I find myself using only two brushes, maybe three: the Chalk brush that is part of the Photoshop’s default brush set and a custom charcoal brush I made. I select the color of the element I am working on with the eyedropper tool, set the blending mode to multiply (or to screen depending on what I am doing), and usually bump the opacity down to around 30-40%.

You can see on the image above how the masking shapes work to help create shading and definition. Here I have select the eye mask, turned the layer off so I can see what I am doing, and select the head layer to do the actual shading.

More work done using the masks. They helped me define the chins and the shape of the ears. I continue to work in this way until I get to the point to where I feel like the illustration is complete and I send it off for final review!

Approved! If you are up in Ballard for the Seafood fest on the 9th of July, you’ll see Rufus on banners and table tents at The Hi Life’s pig roast.

Comment: 1
  • Carol October 19, 2013 11:14 am

    I love to see the phases through Rufus’s birth! Thank you for sharing him with us.

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