Spider-duo Cover
Added 2024-05-28 02:06:21 +0000 UTCA poster I made featuring Park and Miley swinging into action!
PROCESS:
I imagined a scene that takes place during day time so their colors pop out more, and I wanted them to be swinging towards wherever during this daily routine of theirs. But I wanted to try out a different, more complicated angle than I'm used to. So I drew them from below, as though we're seeing this from the perspective of the civilians who see them swing past them from above.
As with any artwork I make, I begin sketching the composition first. After I'm satisfied with the poses, I do each character individually first before the background. I first do the lineart, which takes the longest when doing a character because I needed to make sure no gaps are present. This is because when I color the character I use the Fill/Bucket tool. Once the flats are done, I proceed to shading them, which uses the same process I use when liberating and coloring.
For the background, I made use of a free 3D City foundation from the Clip Studio Paint store. This asset is just a bunch of rectangular blocks that resemble the buildings and it comes with a perspective ruler, which would help me out when making my own version of the buildings. I import the 3D asset into the canvas and rasterize it when I'm happy with the perspective. I set it as the reference layer and turn the opacity down so I can start drawing my own buildings with it as a guide. Then, with New York's buildings as a guide because of how varied they are, I apply the same process I've done for the characters:
Lineart - Flats - Shading - Adjustments
After everything's done, I complete the artwork with my finishing touch. I flattened all the layers, copied the remaining layer, UNflattened everything, then pasted the one I copied at the topmost layer. I set that layer to "Overlay" and applied Gaussian blur to let the colors pop more and to give it a more cinematic feel. I then adjust the "Brightness and Contrast" to my liking.
