I've been a fan of Sergio's every since I discovered his illustrations for Max Lucado's "You Are Special". His composition and line work are wonderful and strong. He creates his luminous colors by drawing on both sides of vellum. I've been a fan of drawing on vellum for years now so I was very interested in his technique. In one of his blog posts he mentioned that his whole process was explained in an out-of-print edition of Step by Step Graphics. Fortunately, someone on ConceptArt who owned that edition scanned and posted the whole article. UNfortunately, the link is now down. If anyone would like to have a copy, let me know and I can email it to you. This is my experimental sketch & value study. Next I will cover the sketch with a sheet of heavy, 90gm vellum and redraw with a carbon charcoal pencil. Hopefully, I will be ready to post the next step tomorrow.
Painting on Vellum ala Sergio Martinez
from
The Art of Kim Kincaid
23 September 2009
Edit: So I'm not hogging Mistress Sketchbook blog space, you can follow the rest of this experimental process on my art blog.
7 comments:
Great blog, and I would certainly be interested in getting a copy of his article from "step by step".
The first image looks like it was done digitally. I'll be interested to see how the pencil version works out. Do you have any plans to take it to full color?
Yes, Jennifer, The first image was done over the sketch in PS. Just a value study. I've now redrawn the sketch on vellum in charcoal and will finish in color. Hopefully.
Ooh, nice! I can't wait to see the next step. I never would have thought of drawing on both sides of a sheet of vellum either, wow. I'm adding it to the list of things I want to try!
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i'd like it sent to me :)
I can't seem to find the copy you sent me - would you mind re-trying?
And I'm still unclear about why there is drawing on both sides..?
Could you post the complete process and the article here?
Blog space doesn't cost any thing and this is really interesting!
I like where this is going Kim. Nice values. Really draws my eye. :u)
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