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- Layout
This is the layout and some color samples for a ‘commission’ (gift). My friend, the seamstress, made a whole ton of Dragon*Con costumes and moved across the country immediately afterwards, and I wanted to thank her. You may be able to see the color coding for the markers — I had the colors settled before starting the final drawing.
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- Faces
The layout doesn’t have any faces. I did the faces on a separate sheet from reference photos to get the details down. I sketched them in my comic style, because the work was supposed to have that simple feel. Even still, the final product wasn’t quite as detailed.
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- Sketch
Here is the sketch on a 14×17 inch sheet of Bristol paper. Take note of the grid. There is a grid with the same number of divisions on my layout sheet, which helps me keep the scale correct when moving to a larger sheet of paper. To lay the pencils, I used a simple 0.3mm Staedtler mechanical pencil with standard writing leads.
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- Ink
To lay the ink, I used a Pentel Brush, which allowed for some variation in line width. Where variation wasn’t important but straight lines were (the table, for example) I used pigment pens of 0.5 and 1 mm width and a straightedge. After allowing the ink to dry, I erased all the sketch lines, including the grid.
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- Final
The color was all done with set of Tria markers. The original layout was littered with Tria color codes, so I remembered which color I wanted to use for each region. Some final inkwork was applied, usually with pigment pen, to fix any small omissions. At my friend’s request, I signed at the bottom right. That was an unusual experience for me…Littering my work with noise.