Synopsis: A couple has a child, but complications arise and a blue pyramid is born instead of a human child. The couple grapples and struggles, especially the wife, as they wait for the doctors to determine how to bring the baby into the human world. The situation continues to worsen, but the doctors find a solution: they cannot bring the baby boy into the human world, but they CAN recreate the conditions to bring the parents into the baby's world of abstract shapes. They will see each other as human, but to the rest of the world, they will appear as alien beings who cannot be understood. Because of their love for the child, the parents join their son. So here's illustration number 4 of 6. This was the illustration that I did last and took the longest time. This is a pivotal image, but it seemed very challenging; a single still drawing had to show that Polly is drunk, she is humiliating herself, and that Peter has witnessed it. Before I started the final drawing at all, I had to understand how to draw a drunk person. I looked up some reference, freeze framed some videos and made some sketches. There is the easy clue of putting a bottle in a hand, but you can make it easier to see; stains on clothes, unkempt hair and clothes. I even added a mismatched button. But for posing, I learned that the key is a lack of balance: I couldn't just draw the pose straight up and down. Also, drunk people can not walk in straight lines (I know this from Randy Marsh from South Park, not from personal experience.) When I gave my first pass at the final drawing, I scanned the below. Sometimes I don't see compositional problems until I see the drawing in the computer. When I saw this image, I realized that the silhouettes were just not reading. I needed space. What to do? It seemed like manipulating it all in photoshop would be too difficult, I can't really mimic my drawing with any Photoshop brushes. So the next best thing: Pulled out a scissors. Oof. So I cut up the image into pieces and taped them on a clean piece of paper. I think it was worth it.
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Ryan Wong
5/22/2017 09:56:52 am
I know how to deal. What seems to be the officer, problem? We are the same, she and I. It's this sickness, just eatin' me up. No, it's a cardigan but thanks for asking.
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