But I have been buried under work of late. That infamous Very Big Project is taking up all my time. Which I don’t mind actually.
I’m working mostly in black and white, very clean lined, but cluttered with gradients, and a lot of grey filling in the empty spaces. I didn’t like the way that looked – too lazy and muddy looking. I looked back at my original drawings in my sketch book, and realized that they looked a million times better. They’re just black brush pen on white sketch paper, no fancy gradients to be found.
So I’m keeping the illustrations just to stark black and white, thick, line drawings and recreating the shadows and texture by hand. Which I’m much more happy about, but is definitely a bit more time consuming. Stark black and white just works so much better graphically. It pop’s right out at ya, which definitely what I’m going for with this work.
Stark, pop, graphic and dynamic. Definitely some good hints as to what I’m working away at.