After The Horror

Finally, the time has come to post this drawing I made about a month ago. It was my entry for this year's (late) Halloween competition held by Josiah "Jazza" Brooks, but I didn't want to post it before he made his final video and announced the winners.

The title of the competition was "After The Horror" and the challenge was to draw what happens to monsters and villains after the cameras are turned off. For this scene I chose Freddy, Michael and Jason waiting by a phone, expecting their producers to call them and inform them about their next role in some new sequels of their horror franchises. 

I didn't really expect to win anything, especially If you know I've been feeling kind of stuck with my "art" lately. It would've been nice to get just a shout-out, but there were so many entries and I guess the choice had to be made.

As usual, I won't let this discourage me, and when I get this kind of silly inspiration, I'll just go with it, because above all it was very fun trying to figure out how to bring my idea to life, as well as getting through the whole creative process. 🎨

And not to forget, congratulations to the winners! 👍 You can check the video on Jazza's YouTube channel:

Using watercolour pencils for the first time

Lately I've been trying out my new watercolour pencils, as well as figuring out some kind of style that won't include computer manipulation. I mixed so many different techniques - first I used 0.1 fineliner for the outline, then I used the Faber-Castell watercolour pencils and tried to blend them as best as I could using a water brush pen. Then I used the Pentel brush pen to emphasize the outer outline and the 0.2 and 0.3 fineliners to go over some inner lines. I finished the drawing with the white pigment ink pen for some details and highlights.

Napokon je došao trenutak da isprobam vodene drvene bojice koje sam kupio prije nekoliko mjeseci. Iako se naši stilovi prilično razlikuju, inspiraciju sam dobio gledajući YouTube video uratke koje objavljuje Josiah "Jazza" Brooks - on većinom koristi Copic markere, ali ima nekoliko metoda koje su mi se svidjele i koje mogu uklopiti u nekakav stil koji pokušavam osmisliti. Možda je ovo tek još jedan prolazan trend, ali iskreno se nadam da ću uspjeti u namjeri da nađem alternativni način crtanja, koji ne uključuje obradu u kompjutorskim programima i koji će biti nešto brži, jer rad u Inkscapeu mi oduzima prilično vremena. To ne znači da želim odustati od digitalnog crteža, već samo naći dodatan način crtanja kako ne bih morao dugo vremena sjediti za kompjuterom.

Taj "stil" obuhvaća sve što možete vidjeti na fotografiji dolje. Nakon što skiciram crtež olovkom, tankim markerom (0.1) izvučem linije i počnem bojati vodenim drvenim bojicama Faber-Castell, koje vidite dolje. Prvo crtam "na suho", a zatim prijeđem kistom (u ovom slučaju, kistovima punjenim vodom, koje sam također kupio prije nekoliko mjeseci). Budući da desetljećima nisam crtao vodenim bojama, osjećao sam se kao običan amater, tim više što su u pitanju te drvene bojice koje doslovno trebate "razmuljati" mokrim kistom i ostvariti dojam kao da ste crtali običnim vodenim bojama. Kad se sve osušilo, ocrtao sam vanjski rub Pentel brush olovkom, te tankim flomasterima (0.2 i 0.3) pojačao unutrašnje linije. Za kraj sam upotrijebio gel olovku s bijelom tintom i dodao zadnje detalje.

A ovo su neki od konačnih crteža. Prvo sam nacrtao Jazzin avatar, i to na običnom papiru za printer, što je ispala loša ideja, jer se papir jako smočio i izvitoperio. Ostalo sam nacrtao na papiru za vodene boje - Pikachua i Hulka s hrapave strane i nisam baš bio zadovoljan dobivenim efektom. Za kraj sam nacrtao Spider-Gwen s druge strane istog papira i čini mi se da ću i ubuduće tako. Jedino me iznenadiloto što se i ovaj papir malo savio zbog vode, ali čini se da se sušenjem situacija ipak malo popravi.

Toliko zasad o tome, ali očekujte još koji izvještaj o napretku. Do idućeg projekta!