Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

Finally finished the illustration over the weekend, atleast I think I have? I was thinking of seeing if I could improve on it some more but I feel like I should leave it as it is, see what I can learn from it in terms of what I need to work on and go back to studying.



Here’s the finished piece










I tried incorporating a background like in my original design, working on a seperate peice of bristol board since I was worried that I might screw up the drawing. Tried using a graphite powder and a brush to simulate clouds but I wasn’t liking the direction it was going in. I beleive it is definitely do-able using that approach but I think it would take me quite a few more hours and at this point (roughly 30 hours?) I feel like I’ve spent far too much time on it already for what is essentially one figure.




I tried to create a glare effect off the sword incase your wondering what those 2 streaks of light are but I’'m not sure if that is clear since I’m using an off white background.




My original plan was to learn more about screen printing after this was done which I’ve been doing the past 2 days since i’ve strained my elbow but after working on this illustration I thought going back to master studies would be a better idea to help me improve on my shape design and simplification as I felt those where the glaring issues holding this piece back aswell as my work in general.