Big Game Project – Week 4

Week 18 I finished up the drawings that I had not been able to do last week as well as three more illustrations.

I started out with lose sketches that I later painted over in gray scale, iterating and re-painting until I was somewhat satisfied with the result. I tried getting as much feedback as possible from my teammates and other people before I went on to color the painting in order to lessen the risk of needing to fix things later on. I also asked feedback on the finished pees and tested how it looked within our card frame before I handed it over to the group.

I chose to use the gray scale method in order to save time. Though I prefer painting directly in color, it would have taken me to much time to complete the card illustrations this way. The gray scale method was also preferable for this particular project, because it allowed me to focus on the values of the illustrations (and also on the silhouettes and shapes), which is very important when the illustrations need to be shrunken down in order to fit on a surf pad or a phone screen.