Once again, I answer a question from Patiot Jose -
Why the choice of style with Monstru’s characters, apart from a personal taste?Is it something that evolved from pencil sketches and roughs (as I would expect) or did you start your creations digitally? Would love to see concept sketches, or old versions of the characters in rough form.
The main characters were designed and have evolved, digitally.
I know that makes some purists quake in their shoes, but a pencil is a tool... and so is my mouse. I've learned to draw with both, but I've found that I can often get to the final designs much faster by working digitally.
Do I still sketch and doodle Monstru stuff. Yep, absolutely. I've been finding myself doing a bunch of cruddy looking roughs this way, but it does help. The race of Haunts was developed/refined that way.
I used to sketch really, really tightly, to get this really controlled line. Now that I let the vectors do the tight drawing, it's allowed me to be much, much freer with my drawing hand. I'm much more loose, relaxed, and funky with it.
Here's how bad Beastio and Chadworth used to look in their first strip, Monster Machine:
*Shudders* I can't stand these initial drawings anymore... but that's evolution for you. Where's the background?
Challenge: Keep the questions coming. I expect to hear from more of you than just P. Jose!
:)
Thanks Jose!
