SF&F Picture 33 out of 60 by Charlie ~Rikiji~ Crawford.

SciFi and Fantasy Art: Grybbit Evolution

(uploaded 02/~/01) This is a composite image of the steps I go through in creating an image. The Grybbit is of particular interest of me since I haven't done a non-humanoid character in quite a long time; however, all of my pictures go through basically the same process.

I start out with concept sketches. Very loose and light, these sketches allow me to work out such thngs as costume details, pose, and conceptual difficulties before comitting myself to a final image. For the Grybbit much of this work is anatomical sketches of the animals its composed of.

Once I have the concept pretty much worked out, I create a final image. I start with a pencil sketch, roughing the figure in before going back and doing final detail. Once I'm happy with the pencil work I use a technical pen to ink in the line drawing. I'm currently at a stage where I like my pencil work, but hate my inking. However, the inking makes a notable difference in the final coloring stage so I keep working on it.

Once I have the image inked, scanned and cleaned up I apply color to all areas. I start with a flat single-color scheme to get a feel for the final figure. Once I'm happy with the basic scheme, I go in and add shading and texture (In this case, I added texture to the Grybbit's feathers).

At this point, the image is nearly finished. I'll go back in and add detail work, such as backgrounds or spell effects (as can be seen in my images of Alabaster and Auruae). Not horribly complex, but I figured it might help to break the process down to see in what stages I'm in need of improvement.


	Categories: [Body Study] [Mythical Creatures & Assorted Monsters] Techniques: [Pencil/Graphite Pen] [Black Ink] [Computer-coloured Picture]

Date	Name	Comment
23 Feb 2001	Erin F. Lynch (Autumn)	Loading... Oooooooo... Would it be too unitelligent for me to simply say "wow"? says it anyways Wowwwwwww! =P
14 Mar 2001	Nancy (Zephyr) Rypkowski	Loading... This is a very interesting process. It makes sense, of course and I must say, people who put this much effort, thought, planning and patience deserve to be commended. I'm the artistic type where I try to get done with one picture and move onto another. Those that I feel are worth more attention generally never get it as more ideas constantly stream into my head and demand to be sketched out, so I have more sketches than finished works... ::blinks and looks around:: Oh, yeah, this is a comment for you not about me... ::hides:: I really like your ideas anyhow, I should try to go through that process myself. A grybbit is a very... odd creature. Do you do this for all of your sketches? And to do all this great work and amazing foresight with your works, please tell me you're going into an art field....I go through this process to a greater or lesser extent with every piece I do. Sometimes, if I really like a preliminary sketch I'll go ahead and clean it up and finish it but most of my drawings have at least a page of prelims associated with them.
22 Mar 2001	Lindsey M. Kemlo~Ratha Flamewing	Loading... This is so kewl! wishes she could do more planning like this It's really neat how you worked it all out.
18 Apr 2001	Michael Blaine Myers Jr.	Loading... I really like the original sketches for the grybbit, however I believe a lot of the "good" in the image was lost in the transition from pencil to ink-line. I know how easy it is to do a great pencil drawing, but then lose a lot of the picure during the finalizing process. I guess all I can say is I'm working on ink transitions, maybe you should do the same thing. I do love the piece, don't get me wrong. Just trying to help out.Actually, I agree with you there. One of the main reasons I'm inking all of my illustrations right now is so that I can get better at inking. I'm losing some of the image quality now, but thats a tradeoff for better results in the future.
25 Jun 2004	Joshua D. Milgram	Loading... That is one of the scariest things I have ever seen. Thumbs up.

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