I thought I would document my process of doing an Illustration, and now that the magazine it appears in is out I thought I would post up this! I hope it's at least slightly interesting to read or at least look at my messy workspace aha.
I was asked by a friend on the Atlas Magazine team if I wanted to create some work for the magazine and she told me the theme was 'Exploration' I have to admit to being a bit stumped for ideas for ages, could only think of people on little toy cars like the ones outside shopping centres and arcades, classy I know.
After a bit of sketching I thought of this concept and sketched it out, my sketches are rough as I mostly do details and everything whilst inking, mainly because it saves a bit of time.
Once I finish inking it looks a bit cleaner aha, you can actually see what it is now.
I then move onto colouring, I colour using Copic Ciao markers, I start off with colouring in the shadows with a light purple then move the colours up to skin tones then pinks to add a bit of life to the image so they don't look like an extra from a Resident Evil film.
I chose to colour the plane in pink/purple to add a bit of contrast and colour to the image as I didn't want it to just be gold/yellow tones. Spent quite a while layering up the colours for her afro's, can't have a flat 'fro.
I then went on Google and got some reference for the planets and tried my best to make them look like decent. Scanned it into Photoshop and edited my mistakes, and then it was finished!
So here is the final finished image:
I do like how this illustration turned out and even more happy that they chose to include it in the magazine! I hope you enjoyed reading this/looking at the pictures, I have got a more in-depth walk-through coming up showing me layering colours etc but thought this would be good to start off with!
Don't forget to see my illustrations and a lot of amazing work in the Atlas Magazine which can be read here:
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