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A quick process post for my Wright & Edgeworth piece since a couple folks were asking about it over on twitter! I think it’s actually deceptively simple, I just work like this when I really want to focus on bold silhouettes and color blocking:

rough sketch

group sketch with a flat grey color, add a mask to the group and mask out the silhouettes (you’ll see the silhouette cut in and out of the sketch as I’m making decisions at this point, like fixing Phoenix’s tiny feet)

block in flat colors under the sketch to get graphic shapes, good color blocking

ink over the flats (sketch is still slightly visible at a low opacity, but erased where it gets too busy), add skin variation and details like teeth/eyes/buttons, tweak both as needed

Shading is just a single color set to multiply, I’ll turns the flats on and off to keep track of the overall shading as I’m doing it

Apollo, having found himself forced into the spotlight after a court case in which he implicated Kristoph Gavin for the selling of poisoned bootlegged alcohol, decides to take his sister up on her offer to let him stay in West Egg for the summer. What follows is a mysterious invite to a party with an equally mysterious host, the desperation to unearth a conspiracy, and an impossible falling-in-love that he doesn’t know will end in tragedy until it’s too late.

read on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37588324

(excerpt under the cut)

hhheyyyyyyy