| DOGMATIC... | |
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The thumbnail original was very small...I
had to stretch it quite a bit for the enlarged version. Click on any illustration for an enlargement. |
| Sketchbook drawing using full-sized letter outline. I just started putting in all kinds of brushes, etc., then hooked up linkages to them. |
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The final drawing, not much different from the sketch, except for the addition of the Q-Tip Manipulator (not a standard item with the Dogmatic...it had to be special-ordered). |
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the application of water-based
dyes serves as the underpainting for the colored pencils. This time,
it also served to identify things--the design was a hard one to follow.
I got lost more than once, painting things out I wanted, and missing
things that should have been painted. Normally I paint the illustration
first and save the background for one of the last steps. This time,
I did the background first so the gizmo would be easier to distinguish.
I was still able to screw things up. A natural talent, I can't take
credit for it. |
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| The colored pencil stage where most of the work is done. As I've stated in many of these step by step demos, the colored pencil can be wonderfully transparent and aggravatingly transparent. You can tell from the color of the suds that I'd reached some kind of saturation point. Compare the color of the suds with the color of the water coming out of the hose where I kept the white of the paper intact throughout the process (mostly). | |
| During this final stage of painting with (much needed) acrylics, I added the whites and yellow-whites to help define the gizmo and to punch up the highlights. |  |
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