Shadow and Light
Completed on: 12/12/2004
Medium: Pencil sketches on vellum, coloring completed in Photoshop
Info: The second "mood" piece for my scene layout class I did a little while ago. Basically I wanted to continue the split design idea I had done with my first mood piece, Daughter of Darkness, and explore other possibilities which might be available to me. Here I contrasted the two major opposing sides in my books as well as my storyboards. As soon as I knew I would do the hero and villain I considered using opposing tones for each half of the piece. It took some experimenting before the right colors came through. For Gilon I chose a blue green while for Vragar I went with an orange overlay as the original red one was too strong. I was really pleased with the way the stained glass window and moon came together to create one more unifying factor in the design. After the initial work was done I decided to add a special effect to each side to make the piece more interesting. For the hero I painted a rain effect which I was really happy with (mouse over to see the detail), and for the villain I did a lightning effect. The biggest thing I learned from all of this is that besides being a great painting program Photoshop is also full of other tools artists can take advantage of (like for aligning imagery and creating color templates).
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