#spookybabes

Continuing from my previous post: I am now recreating the skeleton puppet front view. I turned to my favorite anatomy book references and worked first on paper. I like to use colorful markers or highlighters, starting with yellow, building to darker colors. I add white to block out where I can the parts I'm not keeping. This sharpie is oil based and didn't work as well as a posca pen, but that's okay. It's just process work. I then go over that with tracing paper. After the tracing paper, I scan the line art. Then I put it in Photoshop. I straighten the image out and create a new layer for the next step. I used the vertical symmetry option via the butterfly icon in Photoshop CC to create a mirrored drawing. That's the last step in Photoshop. Next I need to recreate it in Adobe Illustrator. You can see how much my drawing's improved with photo reference and using the symmetry tool. Illustrator will give the puppet scalability for the final digital line artworks. The end stage of all 78 tarot cards will be pen and ink.