Sunday 14 April 2013

Only wilderness may tame me...

Good evening my puddin' pies, this is my final blog entry for this series. I do so hope you enjoy it. Though it appears to be a one panel depressing comic, I assure you it is not. All stories connected to these posts can and will be found on my parent blog; http://panduhgrafix.wordpress.com/about/  I know. Creative, right? On to the show!


Part 1


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1. Thumbnails. For this single word of inspiration, I had a difficult time thinking of one thing that would illustrate 'Wild'. I didn't want to repeat others who thought the 'wild' was filled with JUST animals and people going out to parties. There is a softer side to the wild and I tried to implicate that with a solo polar bear. Mono-bear. Uni. Un. Just one bear. 

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2. Draft sketching was the easiest and most fun out of all of these posts. Rather simple, right? Wrong. I love anatomy and study it of humans and animals. Getting an angle perfect enough to bring across the point that this bear isn't wandering, he's searching and wondering was hard, but done. 

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3. Outlining and a hint of colour was bringing my bear to life in my eyes. If you've watched nature shows or even scoped google for images, you'd see that a polar bear when in an adult form isn't pure white.

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4. More colour was added. A yellow hue to with a hint of brown on the under belly helped to round out this creature without having to add greys. It wasn't enough though.

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5. Going back over a few of the lines that would be darker on the bear gave the impression of shadows. I contoured wherever I thought would be shadowed if light were to come from the upper left [corner].


Final


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Too much blue? Not to me. The blue is to signify the cold and loneliness this polar bear feels as he treks through the blizzard conditions of the Frigid North. The wild is filled with more than just animals, people, and nature. It's sometimes filled with loneliness.


Though this was my last post. It will only be my last for a short while. I will post in bursts, my works and my stories. The inspiration for all things Panduh. The results for all things me. I've let you all in on my process and thoughts and do hope you like what you've seen. 

Farewell for now, my friends. Until I return. Thank you for reading.

~Panduh 

Mr. Peanut is getting old



 I recently became an owner of a new pair of glasses (I had lost a previous pair) and thought it'd be a laugh to let you all see what I look like with them. That's not what this blog is for though! So, to go along with the theme of 'Spectacles', I bring you Mr. Peanut in need of a thicker monocle OR a pair of glass all his own.

Part 1

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1. Thumbnails. This process was relatively simple. Just focusing on one character made it easy to think of a single pose. Since this weeks word was 'Spectacles', I wanted the focus to be on his make-shift glasses; essentially two hand held monocles.


Fullsize Sketch of Mr. Peanut

2. I sketched out the pose I liked best, on another sheet of sketchbook paper then with a sheet of Carbon paper I traced my sketch onto a 9x 12 sheet of peterborough board. 


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3. After the sketching, I took to my gouache paints and 'blocked' out his body.


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4b. After the paint dried, I retraced his monocles, mouth, and cane.


Stage 4: To define

5. After painting the rest of his body, I used fine liners to outline the details

 Part 2: Digital 

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6. I used quick selection and command + J to create a new layer with the selection.

2. brightness+contrast

7. Clicking on the image in the layers tab, I selected Mr. Peanut and brightened the entire selection.

3. bg_gaussianblur

8. After introducing a background of peanuts, I used the Gaussian Blur filter to 'unfocus' the image.

4. dropshadow

9. I then add a drop shadow overtop to allow a bit of depth.


Final

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Mr. Peanut has gotten very old and is in need of new glasses. Just to give you a taste of what he sees even with his two monocles, things are still quite blurry.

I hope you had a laugh or at least a smile at this one. My next blog will be the final in my first series of Conceptually yours. 

'Untamed'  is your clue! Let your imaginations run rampant with ideas!
 

Wish you were here...


Hello again, puddin' cups! I'm finally back after a hiatus filled with projects. I would like to present to you the third instalment of my story-like piece inspired by the word, "Sky". 

Due to the complexity and number of steps to create this piece, I'll be posting the end results of some steps of my process. Also, the photo that I've incorporated into this image was rendered using photoshop and reference to a real photo of a friend of mine. With her permission, I was allowed to use her photo as reference and to respect her wishes of anonymity; I have not taken pictures of the process of recreating her photo. 

Part 1: Thumbnails and components


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1. Thumbnails; the hardest part was deciding a proper perspective and what to focus on. My first thoughts were to include a person and try to focus on them. I then rethought the entire image and decided to have only one 'person' in the image.


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2. (3.) After I created the image to be in the photo frame, I needed to incorporate a background that would appropriately create a 'romantic' feel. I played with a few filters after finding an image I liked on google, resized, cropped, and then used the 'Cutout' filter to create a vector like feel.


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3. I then placed the rendered image of my friend over the background, resized and decided to add a gradient that would highlight her eyes.

4. frame

4. To create the frame, I used the shape tool and made a single thin yellow rectangle and replicated it 3 more times. After making the shape of the frame, I merged the layers and then added a few effects as noted in the screenshot.


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5. Final Photo. This was the main component, not that it'd be as large as it is now.

 Part 2 Digital completion


  1. creating perspective

6. To make the overall piece a bit more dynamic, I took my background and skewed it.

2. plane + reduced opacity

7. Another component was the plane. After using quick selection and command + J to create it on a separate layer, I  reduced the opacity to help it appear as more of a reflection on the background. 

3. Palette knife

8. Though the plane would be barely seen, I didn't want the harsh edges to be what people focused on. I used the palette knife filter. 

5. Counter top + Dark strokes

9. Another portion was the counter top on which the photo would rest. After creating the counter top, I used the Dark Strokes filter to help it look a bit more like marble. 

Final!

This is the final.  The photo on the counter has a drop shadow and I hope it can be understood as to why I did so much for the photo itself. I couldn't have just any blurry image. It wouldn't make sense to me and the story.  
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I feel that it came together well and do hope you like my first all digital piece (not including thumbnails).

Stay tuned for my NEXT post. "Glasses" is your clue!!