Here's some character paintings that I did last year for Yin, Yang, Yo. These were done as traditional paintings which were then finalized in Photoshop.
The idea behind these were that Yin and Yang were supposed to look really sick and disgusting. I tried to base the style on the old EC comic covers where the faces would always be underlit by a sickly green light.
The paintings of Yin were particularly difficult because she has really pink skin. That really made for a challenge when it came to making them look gross since yellows and greens can really clash with pink.
It always makes the job so much easier when you have good layout drawings to work from. All of the drawings were by Warren Leonhardt (boards) and Mark Ackland (director).
17 comments:
Genius!
Ha ha...those are fantastic, Nick.
very very nice!
Thanks!!!
These are really nice Nick!
Is their a chance that I could buy a copy of them, so I can frame them with your signature?
I cant stand to watch the show for more than 10 seconds, but these paintings are nice. if the show looked like that all the time I'd watch!
Thanks Kyle!
Matt: These don't exist in the actual world, only as digital files, I can send you a cd with them on it if you like then you can print them out (my printer sucks). I won't charge you for it. Just give me your address. Thanks!!!!!!
Hey nick, would you mind telling me more about how you painted this?
is it all photoshop or some other program? the linework doesn't look like photoshop as its too imperfect, but I could be wrong, maybe its just the brush you used. I'm able to mimic dry media pretty well as far as color/shading goes, but the lines rarely look as natural as your paintings. what do you do to roughen them up like that?
Hi Kyle,
They are a blend of cel paint on illustration board and photoshop. Probably about half of the lines were painted with paint and the other half were done with the regular brush tool in Photoshop. It's almost impossible to totally mimic a real painting with Photoshop... a computer likes to make things even and unnatural by nature, so almost all paintings that I do are started with some sort of painted texture. One trick I sometimes use is to just throw down some quick washes on a piece of illustration board and scan that in and use it as the foundation to give a painting some texture and then paint the rest digitally. That's how I did almost all the bg paintings for "The Waif of Persephone"
Hope that helps!
these are gorgeous!
Awesome paintings! I like the green light theory.
Yucks. These are gross.
GOOD JOB!
that eyeball grossed me out...i dont recall being grossed out by a cartoon in a while......
whoa. these are fucking awesome! the eyeballs look super awesome! great work!!!!
SOOOO good NICK I love them!
Original perspective.
These were so awesome Nick! They looked great in the cartoon.
They were the best 10 seconds of the show!
heh heh
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