Fantasy big railroad locomotive departing city - WIP stages
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| Stages of the digital artwork consisting of the gigantic railway locomotive. |
A gigantic railway locomotive is about
to depart a city with very tall skyscrapers in this 1940s inspired
retro railway illustration. The digital artwork was completed during December
2019. The first stage of the illustration was to do the initial
drawing/ colour concept on a Samsung tablet running software called
'Auto Sketchbook Pro', a drawing app that uses a pressure sensitive
pen. Once the concept is worked up to a point using the device, the
file is then transferred to a more powerful windows desktop machine,
which also runs the same program. The tablet can only do so much
before it reaches its operational limits and the image, to be
printable, needs to be of a far bigger size than the tablet can cope
with. The file is exported as PSD levels as set on the tablet app,
and these remain on the desktop file. The image is enlarged to 6000px
(horizontal) and then is redrawn/ repainted at this new definition,
with some work carried out additionally in Photoshop.
The picture below shows three panels,
the first is the drawing with the second showing the colour rough as
completed on the tablet. The final panel features the finished
artwork as completed on the desktop machine. The illustration can be
viewed in greater detail on this link.
