Fast Art Stuff: Having Fun, Boy?

 

You don’t know what will come  in a strange deserted and black paper.  When you put a little mark on it, your mind start to wonder. Like this blog. All along this blog was just an assignment but when I’m working on this blog, I really get in to it. For who ever is wondering what this blog is  about (teacher, that’s you) This is an Art Blog, I just throw everything in here like this post is some kind of blank paper. Everything goes. For the next post, actually I don’t know what I’m going to talk about, another tutorial, another walkthrough maybe, or maybe some posting from my old blog. Oh yeah. my old blog. Let’s start with that shall we?

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I start my artwork "Having Fun, Boy?"  'cause of Owl City. I mean Owl City. The synthpop electronica one-man band. The songs are playful and fun, and so high imagination. The tunes go up and down, and synchronized with the lyrics, and the keyboard sound, and the singer vocals, play around the song make it so beautiful.

Because of the lyrics, I start building concepts. Concept I took for this piece is what the song said about the surroundings. It’s pretty descriptive sometimes, but it’s still pretty hard. What if I interpret this part that way, this way, maybe other ways? What about the lineart, the colors. Is it going to be dark and horror, or light and playful? It’s kind of hard when you start thinking about the lineart for a piece. Detailed or outline only? In the end “Having fun, Boy?” Probably is the hardest and most detailed artwork I’ve ever done. Mostly maybe because of dedication. :) 

When you finished something (concept) sketching on a piece of paper made you turn your brain again. Because sometimes, not all of the concepts you’ve been thinking about is going to fit in one piece of paper. Remove this, remove that, there were a lot of erasing. Maybe I lost my eraser on the way.

A thing that I really troubled with in this artwork is the boy’s hand. Some part need some perspective (annoyed, I’m no good with this perspective) A thing that I really loved with in this artwork is not all the imaginative stuffs are real and they don’t really need perspective. Just let your imagination run wild! After I finished the sketch let’s get on with inking it.

Ink. Hard. Really now, I’m serious that this is hard. I mean, When you see the sketch, inking is one obstacle that you have to through. Key to inking: stable. Your hand must be steady and flow correctly, follow the lines you’ve made in the sketching step. Watch out for details and if you want to change something in the inking stage you better think twice, be careful.

I color the picture a few days after the inking and the coloring takes a few days as well (including the art block of colors) I mostly used faber-castells classic color pencils, but to smooth the boy's  and angel's face I used faber-castel;s watercolor pencils. Why watercolor for the face? Because it much more smoother than If I used coloured pencils. Most of the technique or ways are gradation and layering (check out my First Post ) I really like this process although it took me so long just to finish it.

Tools:

1. Faber Castell Coloured Pencils
2. Faber Castell Watercolor Pencils
3. Snowman Drawing Pen (forgot the size)
4. 0.5mm 2B lead mechanical pencil
5. Eraser
6. The back of a manga paper :)

That’s about my artwork,

 

- Keshia