Today, January 31st is the Chinese New Year. It's year of the horse so I thought it would be a nice opportunity to draw my own vision of a leaping, galloping, frolicking horsey. Here's how I did it...
From top to bottom: I began with a very quick sketch in pencil. I didn't use any photo references so the proportions might be all wrong. As long as it looked vaguely horse-like I felt it was ok. The next stage I traced over this initial sketch with a better pencil rough. I used layout paper for this. It seemed to look near to what I imagined so I went straight to inking, using a lightbox to see the second sketch underneath my Bristol Board. The pens I used were the Micron, Copics and Sharpies.
I scanned the final drawing into Photoshop and played around with textures and layer blends.
Beautiful! I really like seeing the behind the scenes like this! Appreciate you sharing. Have you done the other Chinese zodiacs? I know you did the rooster for the spats, but I can't offhand remember if you did any of the others.
ReplyDeleteIt's a long term project to complete the Chinese zodiac. Yes rooster was one (my own sign) so I'll try to do another soon. Any suggestions?
DeleteLooking forward to your Libra!! I turn 50 in October...think it will be ready for me to celebrate?! I love all your designs. I used to wear only plain training gear because I couldn't see myself wearing TapOut-type gear. Your designs are beautifully fierce without being too aggressive.
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