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I got lost in a mess of twisted body parts when I was drawing tonight. This was actually a lot of fun—a good way to unwind before I hit the sack. As I was coloring, I began to notice how much the image changed if I made the characters significantly darker than the background color.
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The drawing was constructed in line.
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But as the color approached the value of the line, the silhouette of the design became more apparent. I found that I liked the silhouette as much as the line, if not more so. So I continued to darken until I arrived at my final image, which was something of a balance. See a related post from April about cartoon silhouettes.
3 comments:
Wow, those twisted body parts would have made Basil Wolverton proud! Really intersting how you found a nice middle ground between the silhouette and the line drawing, the final image looks superb with the dark characters. I need this on a t-shirt!
I agree that is t-shirt ready sir.
Ha! You guys are quick to pounce. I know a guy who makes t-shirts. Maybe I'll pick his brain. People wanted me to make a t-shirt of my cartoon silhouettes post, too. But I didn't want lawyers at my doorstep.
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