Monday, October 30th, 2006
another birthday card come and gone..
i’m going to carry on the theme of the caricature by showing another birthday card i made recently for a friend from work. i don’t want to use my drawings as examples of caricature and design, instead this is to show the process of ruff to the finish. most of the time i only have time for one shot at the end result of a card, this time i made two and i stuck them both here. in the coming weeks i hope to show examples from others who i think do a great job of getting personality and design and disect them and how it well it will relate to cg and 2d animation.
when getting started i mash out a dozen or so drawings playing with porportions and attitude of the person. very ruff..
once i get something i like i nail it down, not too tight but enough so i can paint on it in photoshop.
after a couple of color choices i land on this, its no Kiraz palette but it just seemed to fit. but i wasn’t sure i wanted to give this one to her so itried the one below.
seemed funny to me because the look was a clear juxtaposition to her personality, we ended up using both.
on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 at 2:59 pm:
Hey Louis! These are great - she thought she looked totally urban in the second to last one. I like the last one a lot too!
Btw, this whole time I didn’t know that -you- were the same Louis Gonzales that I’ve always heard about! I love your stuff man, especially your comic in Afterworks 2!
Talk to you later!
on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 at 3:01 pm:
Ha! And when I said in the last comment “she thought she looked totally urban”, I really meant “-I- thought she looked…”
…third person syndrome.
on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 at 3:34 pm:
Rosie, i understood what you meant, thank you. i checked out your blog and i like your practice w/styles post. nice work.
lo
on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 at 9:44 pm:
cool!
on Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 2:27 am:
Great post Louis! It’s educational to see how you get from A to B.
I look forward to those future posts you mentioned! I wonder who you’re going to talk about?