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Illustration «Carousel»
Этапы работы

September 19, 2016

I want to show you the main stages of its creation on the example of the picture “Carousel”. I wrote a friend with a request to draw a picture, a gift for a girl. It should be drawn a chicken, in whose role the photographer acted, and the fox, this girl. Which was intended this picture.

At the first stage (Figure 1), I offered him three options for developing a happy life for Tsyp and Fox, in one version, they were riding a boat, and we would see an interesting underwater world in the water cut, another Tsypa and Fox were sitting on the window, a stone a masonry erased by ivy and he sings her serenades and takes pictures.
We stopped at the carousel, as more suitable.

I always try to see in all objects, that I will be drawing.
After looking at the merry-go-round and foxes with chickens, I sketched out a sketch (Figure 2).

I specified from the friend that he don’t mind for a little fool, I immediately corrected the heads of our heroes (Figure 3)

I drew a contour – this is the main for me, the most painstaking and long. There was a carousel’s host – an octopus with a key from a secret door (try to find the keyhole in the picture by the way), funny flowers, fish and a pond dripping up. As I suffer from slight perfectionism, some call it another word, i draw all sorts of detail and stuff very carefully (Figure 4).

For example in octopus I will show the stages of painting: in a separate layer under the contour I paint the basic colors of the octopus and glasses (Figure 5).

Then I put the shadow black in a separate layer in the Color Burn mode. A separate layer in the mode of Soft or Hard light I paint strokes of glare. I take color for the main object, thus forming a volume.

At once it is necessary to say that it is better to determine in advance where the light will fall and keep it in mind, at least approximately (Fig. 6).

Then I paint the outline of our octopus in a dark purple color, that is, each object in the picture will have its own color of the outline. This extra time, but the result will be better. (Figure 7).

I add a few more layers with shadows and highlights, which makes the illustration more contrast and voluminous.

When everything is carefully examined colors, in some places it is necessary to darken the color or weaken for a better combination, so in the working file, in the process of drawing, I try not to merge the layers and their number sometimes reaches 300-400.

I write on the developing tape the proverb in Chinese:
Friendship has no price. The literal translation in Russian: Do not have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends. And it’s ready! (Figure 8)

A poster with this illustration can be bought Gert.shop