Heya folks. Jonathan asked me if I would be willing to do a character portrait of Felix Sundown. Intrigued by the concept of the feytroll, I jumped at the chance.
Here on the left is the initial sketchwork stage. I emailed this to Jonathan and asked if he had any suggestions/critiques he could offer at this point.
I like this stage in the process. It’s ‘fast and dirty’, but it feels like real progress very quickly. Later in the process, things move a bit more slowly and I sometimes get bored too quickly. At this point, I’m able to make massive changes to the image without feeling like I wasted time with previous versions.
Jonathan’s suggestions all seemed to point to making our little friend a bit more… repugnant, so I moved in that direction fairly quickly.
And here we have a more refined version in greyscale.
Hairy little bugger, with those bulging eyes (though he tries to hide them a bit with his glasses and hat) and I think that I managed to make his wings a bit more realistic. And those jowels… yeesh.
Anyone else think he looks like a certain singer who really liked his peanut butter and banana sandwiches?
Anywhoozle – I’ve included a quick video to show you the process better than I could describe. As always – I welcome your feedback! Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1woQU2ZCXNM
Nice! What did you use to make the video?
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Thanks Paul!
The illustration work was done with Open Canvas v.1.1 – b68 (it’s a reallly old version of the software) and I recorded the playback with CamStudio v.2 (which is freeware!). Then I assembled it all in Windows Live Movie Maker.
I’m pretty impressed with CamStudio, and I think that I might try recording the actual illustration process directly (instead of recording OC’s playback) and see what I like/dislike about the results.
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