From sketch to finish....

Ideas, concepts, and preliminary sketches fill the hours of any artist in their studio. The process of taking those ideas/sketches and making them usable or presentable is where the artists skills are tested.

This is an image that I recently needed of a warrior throwing a spear. The thought was to show motion in both the character and the spear to give the image life. I decided to put the warrior in buckskins and also holding a tomahawk in his other hand to add to the drama of the image. This sketch was done in a single sitting based on those thoughts using an iPad Pro and an apple pencil. The drawing turned out ok and I decided to use it in the project I am working on.

As you can see, the finished version that was completed in Photoshop and Illustrator shows the finished image with clean lines and crisp colors. Many details were added and the overall look of the concept was refined to a quality level. Check back to see the project I am planning to use this image in....