Griffith Fan Art (Process)

This is a process post! 

Wtih Animethon and Anime Revolution conventions coming down the line, I've begun making new prints!

I had a process filled with alot of tracing paper and different colored leads when I was making the past year's prints, but this time around I wanted to cut corners and fix things a lot quicker through the use of the photoshop, but always bringing it back to the traditional media touch after everything has been figured out. 

This sexy motherfucker, Giffith

Original art from Kentaro Miura 

Can I first begin by saying how AMAZING THIS SERIES IS??? I read this series back in junior / high school days, and it's been on hiatus for god knows how long (during / after his mini series release) and I've never done a fan art for it till now. 

People rage about the movies on netflix cause they cut corners with the CG models, I honestly don't care / can see why they did that, those movies are damn good and do the series justice. You heard it here first, folks! 

And now for process (more of a record for me than anything to how I approach things currently):

After a series of sketches / thumbs I come up with this sketchy thing

Tonal Plan for the image along with references

I always have photo references on one side and a "style" reference on the other.

So that's where it's at right now, I switched up him holding reigns instead of his helmet cause I figure that'd be more dynamic and talk about him riding by the viewer. instead of a dead-on glance he'll be looking off to the side, for a more majestic, holier-than-thou appareance. Granted this is all in the rough stage, which is what makes digital so useful, where I can warp / transform the image to fit what I think looks best, and quickly place down what I need to change the image without worrying about ruining it / pages of tracing paper (mounds of tracing paper). 

More to come for this piece! I'm excited for this!