Were-Raccoon Pirate WIP

[Griffin McPherson]

@ajillustrates love the cyclops parrot

[ajillustrates]

@Griffin-McPherson Thank you! He was pretty tricky, since a bird's head is absolutely not constructed to to have anything right in the middle of it. I must have drawn and erased the eye 5 time.

[ajillustrates]

Project Day 4: Busy day doing some pre-Thanksgiving activities with the kids, so I only had time to ink the treasure chest and cave.

[kirsten-mcg]

@ajillustrates Your ink work is amazing!

[ajillustrates]

@kirsten-mcg Thank you! It’s my favorite part of the process.

[ajillustrates]

Project Day 5: After taking Thursday and Friday off to focus on family and food, I got back onto this to start blocking out colors.

[ajillustrates]

Project Day 6: Okay, turns out 1 week was way too short to finish this piece, as color blocking is taking longer than expected.

[ajillustrates]

Project Day 7: The color blocks are finished, so I can finally start rendering textures and values tomorrow.

[ajillustrates]

Project Day 8: The areas that are in the shade (away from the moonlight) have been blocked in, and I'm in progress of defining forms with darker values.

[ajillustrates]

Project Day 9: Finished darker values on the characters and foreground, and rolled into lighter values.

[von_Nimmermehr]

@ajillustrates would you like any suggestions?

[ajillustrates]

@von_Nimmermehr Sure! I’m open to advice.

[von_Nimmermehr]

@ajillustrates
firstly i think you rendered the picture just fine and i looks really nice.

I just wondered if he is kneeling in the water, because it looks odd like this, being above the water. You could push this a bit more though.

Also i took a look at some pictures of palmtees and where an how they grow. mostly you find single palmtrees on a beach and a palmtreewood in the jungle but since you can see the background it doesnt align wit the beach look or the jungle look.

In order for the Water to be in this cave it runs down or in the same level of the floor and you are looking a little bit from above in the cave, so i would think the level of the background vulcano/Hills isn't right.

Maybe it's just me but it doesn seem to fit.

[ajillustrates]

@von_Nimmermehr Well, I haven't done any work on the water or background (aside from putting in the base colors), so once that's done, hopefully it will fit in more. The pirate is kneeling in about 6" of water, and that will be painted as a separate layer over his legs (and the foreground rocks) once they are complete. My plan is to go pretty watercolor painterly on the background, so some stuff will probably shift a bit, and I may even remove all the ink lines back there in the process. At that point, that's when I'll paint in some distant folliage for the jungle at the base of the volcano.

[von_Nimmermehr]

@ajillustrates well when i was looking at it earlier, the writing for the post was different the break of the writing. i guess because of my screen. don't know how to explain it

to the left of the picture is said finished,
And under the picture it said value added, i think thats what left me confused. XD

so maybe just forget what i said

[ajillustrates]

@von_Nimmermehr Haha- okay! Oh man, I’ve been a sitting here looking at the background trying to find things wrong with it. But it’s all good - I’ve got tons left to work on it!

[ArtistErin]

Interesting to watch your process! I would love to see how you update, with the painterly look. Great rendering however! Very cool storytelling too... Curious if the parrot holds the other half of his vision? If someone else mentioned this in the thread my apologies if I missed it...

[ajillustrates]

@ArtistErin I'm guessing the parrot's lost a bit of his peripheral vision, and all of his depth perception, but his night vision is now off the charts!

[ajillustrates]

Project Day 10: After vacation/holidays and some more urgent projects, finally able to return and continue work on the lighter values (mostly fur and leather tonight).

[ajillustrates]

Project Day 11: I'd love to have this wrapped up by the end of this weekend, so I really pushed hard today, finishing the lighter values, shadows, and magic effects. If the background, water, and reflections rendering plays nice, I might be able to move onto a new project next week