Thursday, 18 June 2009

Sketching and subtracting



These past few days have been busy sketching and developing and studies with cut out illustrations. Doing these studies has been a major part of the satisfaction a project gives me and I feel that it is being very helpful on my search to finding a "voice", or a "style" for these characters. I´ve been repeating and repeating studies, trying different combinations of "full" areas (not cut out) and "empty" ones and learning a lot from this process. It´s amazing how much the relationship between shape and background can vary with tiny little changes in what gets subtracted from the paper and what doesn´t.

Really, I´m having a grand time working on this, can you tell?

More pictures of this process here.

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