tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82037305255673298462023-11-16T05:42:23.172-08:00Scott M. Fischer Evolving EaselScott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-74688494496969036622013-03-20T12:16:00.000-07:002013-03-20T12:16:37.406-07:00Interviewed by Wendy Martin Illustration<span class="userContent">I did an interview with the lovely Wendy
Martin. We talk about inspiration, technique, and Kraft Macaroni and
Cheese. (OK we didn't really talk about that. But it is yummy.) Thanks
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EDIT 3/20/13 Thanks to your votes 'Jump!' will be leaping back in boxes of Cheerios in 2014! And even cooler, tons of books will be donated to kids who need them! thanks to Cheerios, First Book and Simon and Schuster for thinking kids books are a better prize than a plastic trinket! (Though I do love a good plastic trinket!)<br />
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Can I be so lucky as to have one of my books be a prize in Cheerios boxes for a second time? Yes! With your help. Cheerios has selected 5 books (that have all been in Cheerios boxes before) and one of the five will leap back into boxes of crunchy goodness in 2014! You can help get 'JUMP!' back in the box with two clicks. BUT even cooler. The folks at Cheerios and First Book will donate one book to a child in need for the first 25000 votes! That is awesometastic!<br />
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Even if you don't vote for 'JUMP!' please vote to get a cool book into the hands of a cool kid somewhere!
Voting ends March 11 2013 that is like in two days! So vote here, quick!
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And in celebration, I thought I would share the ORIGINAL book dummy for 'Jump!'. If you know the published version, yo can see how major the evolution was. Third graders prefer this version 10 to 1, but the book was really for toddlers, and most of them prefer the printed version. Cause, you know, sharks are scary (Unless you give them one tooth. That is the secret!)
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Here are a couple spreads from the printed version!<br />
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Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-54894857253425624832013-01-11T06:24:00.000-08:002013-01-11T06:28:42.008-08:00Ballpoint Baller- technique<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had a question about my transfer process before I do a final ballpoint drawing. Now, if I am working in my sketchbook, I just wing it with no predrawing, but that is easy when there isn't a description I have to follow!<br />
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But when you are on a gig, there is an approval process. And you don't want to kill yourself on a drawing that may get killed in the end, so you send a prelim.<br />
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So I do a quick thumbnail, which is usually a pencil or pen scribble in the margin of a manuscript. I scan that into the computer and use the stylus and photoshop to clean it up. I will attach a page of what these drawings look like, be warned, they aren't pretty!!<br />
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After approval I make any changes in P-shop based on feedback. I tighten some things in the computer, but it is usually pretty messy still. I want to leave some fun for the actual ballpoint so I don't spell it all out.<br />
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When I am ready to do the final, I first tint the drawing to the CYAN with 'image/ adjust/ hue/saturation'. Then I go into 'Image/ Adjust/ Levels' and use the slider on the bottom of the window by grabbing the 'dark' side slider and sliding it all the way up to about 252. It will look like the drawing is gone, but it is still there, just very light.<br />
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I then print it out with my Epson on Strathmore 2ply bristol 500 plate surface. It is hard to see the printed drawing, but if you did it right, you will see just enough to get the ballpoint flying.<br />
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In the attached Archway of doom you can still see the cyan printout I am working over inside the entrance.<br />
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I am slack on my blog posts, but rest assured I am pumping out the art to kick off 2013! These are about 1/3 of the drawings for Scary School book 3 by Derek Taylor Kent. Due to hit the shelf this summer, so I better keep the ball point pen moving!<br />
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<br />Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-62687361457048718012012-12-05T06:14:00.000-08:002012-12-05T06:14:16.387-08:00Zombie ATTACK!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bout time I contributed to the phenomenon of Zombies!<br />
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All digital with scanned paint stroke textures. Started with lasso-tool shape silhouette which I progressively worked detail into.<br />
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Breaking out the air brush only to use it in my sketchbook felt a bit extravagant (Not to mention cutting the stencil), but one must chase the whims sometimes.<br />
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'Da Law' is Graphite, chalk and airbrush in toned sketchbook.<br />
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Plus some more random Character Development.<br />
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<br />Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-87595771135122913682012-11-18T08:12:00.000-08:002012-11-18T08:12:16.705-08:00More drawin!Man I have to say I appreciate having a blog. It gives me an outlet to post sketches and ideas that I wouldn't have normally put on the website.<br />
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Like this portrait of best bud and uber creative, Tony DiTerlizzi.<br />
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Then there is this fun drawing I did of my buddy <a aria-controls="js_15" aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_15" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=532782008" href="http://www.facebook.com/epetmezas" id="js_16"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eraklis Petmezas</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 's character Mr Lune. Such a fun design.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And then finally for the day, I have been a bit obsessed with noses, and in this case the nose knows, you know? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-78931528446458918242012-11-09T08:34:00.002-08:002012-11-09T16:04:31.501-08:00Nate Silver drawingI had-had-had to draw Nate Silver. I love this guy. Like many artists, I was considered a total nerd in middle school, to the point that when it was Girls-chase-Boys Day on the playground, literally one girl stopped me cold and shouted in my face "We're not chasing you dummy." (In reality they were chasing 'Greg' with the feathered hair. Greg, the one cool guy would let me loiter in his shadow. I was just running along for exercise I guess...)<br />
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I stink at math so it makes little sense, but after the pundits attacked Nate's blog, I felt this total self vindication on election day- when he nailed it! Like many I had his electoral map open to check every time a state went red or blue. Nate is about as cool as it gets to me.<br />
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<br />Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-86885304583581698572012-11-07T10:42:00.002-08:002012-11-07T10:42:35.988-08:00Not-so-good guys and ART-rageInspired by Wreck It Ralph, I felt like drawing my own characters that could live in a CG animated movie as potential bad guys. If any studios are looking for a guy to draw cool character heads all day, give me a shout. I don't think I wold ever get tired of doing these.<br />
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Then I wanted to see if I could get a similar look of graphite and white chalk on toned paper in a virtual program. So launched Art-rage and went to town. It is a great program and should be in every illustrator's toolbox.<br />
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And finally for this post, here is a little thing. I am doing a novel cover where an object will be the main focus, not a figure, so I used the fantastic (and free) program Alchemy to concept out some cool dagger shapes for the Art Director to choose from. If you haven't used it, Alchemy is a program that lets you design largely with abstracts so you can arrive at very interesting shapes. Most of these were created with 'mirror' turned on so I could design one side of a centerline and it would do the same on the other. It has NO save feature, and no Un-do, so you have to make hard decisions and cross your fingers your next move doesn't mess the whole thing up. I like this aspect of the program a lot actually. (But in the end you can export a file for photoshop to work on top of.) It is amazing if you are a shapist. The AD went with 'F' which was my fave as well.</div>
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<br />Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-46094537061496393622012-11-04T07:51:00.000-08:002012-11-04T07:51:03.929-08:00Wreck-it Ralph, Self portrait and some doodlin!Wreck-it Ralph was so great I came home from the theater and draw a pic of him immediately. Even if you don't have kids, if you were kicking it in the 80's you HAVE to see this flick! Bravo to all involved.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Then I guess it was national Self portrait day according to all my FB art friends. I was a day late but did a drawing of myself, (which my wife thinks looks like a combo of me and Greg Manchess. Who is a handsome devil, so I will take that!) I actually did two, first one by looking in a mirror, which sucked in the end, so I drew this one by referencing that one and stylizing it more. My friends say to draw in a cigar and call me Castro. (Note the stache does this, 'happy one side/ sad the other side' thing all the time.</div>
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And finally a drawing loosely based on artist friend Bruce Jensen's FB profile pic. But, while a fun drawing in and of itself, I could have done better on the likeness!</div>
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That is all for now folks, pick up a pencil and DRAW SOMETHING!</div>
Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-52235182175265411232012-10-26T08:16:00.001-07:002012-10-26T08:16:10.636-07:00Toned sketchbook- what took me so long?Artist buddies like Donato have been rocking the toned sketchbook for ages, and I am only now just catching on! Using soft leads (Or ball point), 4B and softer and hitting it with a Generals White Chalk pencil. (Though the Derwent Chinese White works too, only harder to work back over if need be.)<br />
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I am trying to embrace the softness more in my sketch work. I am usually so... Karate Chop in my attack. I am enjoying sneaking up on it and petting it rather than bludgeoning it.<br />
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All this serious art from me lately, lets bring back the silly with some Rockin Bunnies. And what the heck, a pooping bunny too!Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-16593729834878913542012-09-28T06:17:00.001-07:002012-09-28T06:17:40.670-07:00Izzet StaticaterThis is Izzet Staticaster, one of 5 pieces from me in the Return to Ravnica MTG set.<br />
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Like the others of this series it had simple origins in what I call a Lasso Tool Shape sketch. So I really didn't draw anything in the usual sense of using line. Rather, I made shapes and filled them with flats and gradients. What this did was let me not get wrapped up in the details too soon. But I was tight on Sketch deadline and threw some random bridge/industrial junk in the background, cause I had no idea what I was going to do with it yet. But it set the mood.<br />
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I call this next image a 'midstate', now, but at the time I thought I was just about finished! There were many more hours to go though. After a pretty thorough crit by some trusted peers, I had to dig back in to get it to where you see it at the top. Once again in this version and the final image, the program 'SketchUp' was helpful to get the background. I have always been a reference Frankensteiner, a face from here, a hand from there. I realized with sketchup I could do the same thing. A bit of this building, a tower from here, a flying buttress from there, merged with drawing out of my head to bring it all together. Sketchup won't give you all the answers, but it will give you a heck of a platform. Playing with Sketchup took the backgrounds on these cards further than I ever had before.</div>
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<br />Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-56936822602210691972012-09-26T07:40:00.000-07:002012-09-26T07:40:06.129-07:00Sketches, drawings and doodles.Thought I'd share some recent sketchbook action. Whether it is in a sketchbook or loose paper, more and more I realize the voice of an illustrator- that thing that makes them unique, is often strongest in their drawing, rather than in their painting.<br />
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A great friend said to me years ago, "Scott you can paint like a M-fer, but your drawings underneath suck, and you try to make up for it in the paint and you can't." Harsh but so true and a watershed moment for me. After that I spent way more time working on the drawing than I do the painting.<br />
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But usually I am only drawing for an assignment, and it is only recently I figured out, it is the drawings you do for stuff that isn't an assignment where you see real growth and risk taking. And you cross your fingers some of that adventure can make it back into your professional art w/o the reality of a 'real gig' freezing up your flow. (Which still happens to me all the time.)<br />
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Some of these drawings are in a small moleskin, and the others loose. Moleskin drawings are from the local town Fair, trying to capture creatures in the wild. But they moved so fast, I'd sketch a quick essence, and finish them from memory.<br />
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Someone asked me about the weird paper the other drawings are on. <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[45].[1][2][1]{comment4245760155502_2481294}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[45].[1][2][1]{comment4245760155502_2481294}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]."><span id=".reactRoot[45].[1][2][1]{comment4245760155502_2481294}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]..[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[45].[1][2][1]{comment4245760155502_2481294}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]..[0].[2]">I
love going to flea markets and finding stacks of vintage office
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draw.) This paper cam</span></span><span id=".reactRoot[45].[1][2][1]{comment4245760155502_2481294}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]..[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[45].[1][2][1]{comment4245760155502_2481294}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]..[3]."><span id=".reactRoot[45].[1][2][1]{comment4245760155502_2481294}..[1]..[1]..[0].[2]..[3]..[0]">e
from a sale like that, I have no idea what it was for, but it pretty
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Every now and then I take these sketches into the computer and do color study on them and decide if I want to take them further. This is one I might like to actually paint someday. Something about it feels like a happy place between my children's book work and my grown up work. <br />
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Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-74817277042421016092012-09-14T06:25:00.000-07:002012-09-14T06:29:01.913-07:00Counterflux- MTG paintingHere is a fun one that was a bit of a blur to produce. I was working on 5 MTG paintings for Return to Ravnica, which was my biggest contribution to the game in years. But while I was doing these I also had to finish the art for Lottie Paris 2 AND do a massive amount of silhouettes for Jodi Picoult's "Between the Lines".<br />
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In the end this meant I had to produce 80+ pieces of art in a span of 2 months. I went into full hobo mode, and somehow came out the other end smelling like roses. (Though my family may disagree with me on that score!)<br />
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This is the final image:<br />
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And here are three stages of it.<br />
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1. Like my other Ravnica pieces, I didn't start with a drawing so much as I built it up with lasso shapes. You can feel the silhouette work I was doing for 'Between the Lines' bleeding into all of my images for this set.<br />
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2. I don't love doing perspective, so imagine my joy when I realized I could build the background in Sketch-up and riff on top of it!<br />
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3.And here is the painted background using the sketch-up model as a roadmap. At this stage I had not even started the figure beyond the rough silhouette you see in the first sketch.<br />
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A final detail of the face, which was an exercise in subtly for me. But the truth of the matter is, I kept painting that eye, and not liking it. So I repeatedly blurred it out to paint it again and again till at one point I thought, "Hey that looks better all smudgy!" And left it as you see it.<br />
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<br />Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-77235729832013658812012-09-08T07:57:00.002-07:002012-09-08T08:26:35.350-07:00Oil Painting- Not So SoftThis piece has been hopping on and off the easel for too long. So I thought I's share a quick snap shot of it to encourage me to finish it.<br />
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Nothing digital here. In the beginning I started the piece as if the Oil paint were water color- almost. But more syrupy, sticky watercolor. Think about pancake syrup. (I dis-like normal liquin, but like Liquin Fine Detail.) This thin translucent underpainting let me spatter turp into it to eat away texture and get some sweet dragging effects with old, frayed brushes.</div>
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Then I tried something new. Oil based sign painting enamel. (Like pinstripers often use.) Most of the design work is created that way. Oh oh oh, how sweet the solid laydown of paint was. It would take me many coats of normal oil paint to achieve what enamel does in one coat.</div>
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The crayon wording and sketchy areas are oil pastel. Which is so great for drawing on an oil painting (That is dry.) and wiping off if you make a bad move or even using trup to melt it into a stroke. I planned on painting lines over the more broken crayon stroke.</div>
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But a great friend, Dave Seeley, <a href="http://www.daveseeley.com/" target="_blank">http://www.daveseeley.com/</a> is suggesting there might be something cool to leaving some marks almost crayon like. Oooo contrasting textures, I like that thought a lot! Thanks Dave!</div>
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Who knows! Painting should be fun, take risks, don't lock yourself in to a preconceived vision all the time or you may miss the piece talking to you. Really it will try to talk to you. Don't be stubborn, open yourself up to the conversation, and give it the opportunity to change your mind.<br />
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Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-87141930612543621662012-09-06T08:37:00.000-07:002012-09-06T08:37:33.844-07:00King of Marbury- cover<br />
This piece was a pleasure to do for Tor.com. Such a great story 'King of Marbury' by Andrew Smith.<br />
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Often in my 'grown up' work I do more traditional Sci/fi Fantasy themes. But there is that inner fine artist in me from back in college (SCAD class of '94) that yearns for something more cerebral. The guy who would do paintings inside of suitcases to symbolize 'moving on'. (And then write songs about them and perform them on crit day- but that is another story.)<br />
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This was such a well crafted, creepy-cool short story that it filled my head with images. In the beginning I tried to put everything in there including the kitchen sink. But thankfully AD of Awesome Irene Gallo, got me to focus.<br />
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Some detail. I learned a lot painting that fly. Really enjoying texture brushes rather than smooth ones. I made a silhouette first then built him up. Things like the 'white' where the wings overlap the body were done by adjusting the 'spacing' in brush controls and making one sweeping stroke to get a line of highlights (rather than taking a small brush and painting each mark one at a time.) The rat has a bunch of 'grass' shaped brushes to make the fur.<br />
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Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-13687418642214612472012-09-03T07:30:00.001-07:002012-09-03T07:30:09.935-07:00New Magic Art! Nivix Guildmage<br />
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The piece is 100% digital.<br />
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The finish was a blast to do, but I set a really interesting challenge in creating the work, and that was, I never did a 'drawing'. I started with shape. A lot of my digital technique comes from using the lasso tool on Photoshop to create shapes which I fill with flats and gradients. Even some of the finished areas are tiny little lasso shapes that are lightened and darkened.<br />
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The point of this is that the simplicity of shape lets me not get caught up in the details too early, cause that can be a prison. This let me focus on energy and mood and composition, and the detail becomes the frosting on a pretty solid cake.<br />
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What you see below is the actual 'sketch' I sent for approval. Art director Jeremy Jarvis had to strap on his trust helmet that the details would emerge out of the simplicity. And he did. But I think that trust comes from years of working together.<br />
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<br />Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-55629987743745156302012-09-02T17:24:00.000-07:002012-09-02T17:24:44.839-07:00Sketch book action- Brush PenTakin' a breather from all the ball point drawing and grabbed one of those super sweet Japanese Brush pens! I'd tell you the name, but it is top secret! Actually, I don't know the name. I just stumbled on it walking around Pearl paint one day. And there is almost ZERO English on it, so I am not sure what it is called. But I will sure need to know when it is time to buy refills!<br />
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LOVE love love this pen. The line gets so darn thin, then wham you are into the thick. My only wish was that it was waterproof, alas, prolly wouldn't be so smooth if it was.<br />
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Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-8063256394507230272012-08-20T10:18:00.000-07:002012-08-20T12:09:00.395-07:00Showing Juno- the whale, my sketchbook<br />
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What happened next is a moment I will never forget. Juno studied and observed the sketchbook with me for a hour! He would turn his head with the page flip, focus on the things I was pointing too. He wanted little to do with anyone or anything else but the book. Woah. To say it was a bonding moment is an understatement. (Or maybe it was just my moustache?)</div>
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Everyone keeps asking what Juno was looking at in the sketchbook. My sketchbook is a chaotic catch-all for the stuff that falls out of my brain- from Children's book ideas (Yup there is a whale one brewing.) to a visual daily diary. So Juno was soaking in a lot of info! I am working of a drawing of him that is not finished, but here is one page he was looking at. These were drawings I was doing at Mystic that day. (More sketchbook entries can bee seen in earlier entries of the blog.)</div>
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First is the sketch doodle stage, which is all about exploring visuals for the different characters, trying to find what is right for the book. Wee little kids, for whom Jump was made, get a bit timid when a shark shows up on a page. It took a while but I eventually figured out if you give a scary critter one tooth, they get that it is a shark, but aren't scared of it. Here are some prelim drawings from my sketchbook:<br />
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The next stage, after I've nailed the basics of the critter, is to lay out the spread fot the books trim size. I focus on composition, mood, and try to be mindful of leaving room for text. This stage is usually a mash-up of sketchbook drawings scanned into the computer and them manipulated and drawn on top of in Photoshop. They are pretty crude, but will be cleaned up when they are brought back out of the computer into the real world again.<br />
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After I do the comps, I send them to the Art Director (In this case the Awesome Laurent Linn) and he does a rough layout with text. Once we are sure everything is where it needs to be, I print out the layouts and do a light box transfer of them in light pencil on watercolor paper.<br />
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I then inked them with a brush and Higgins Black Magic (Waterproof) and do the final water color flats. Or maybe I reversed that sometimes, watercolor first then the final ink. <br />
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Finally, the paintings are scanned, the text is added, and then it is off to the Printer. Then about a year later your book comes out! (What you see here are the files the final book was printed from. (They removed the crop lines naturally!)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This time I got a super cool dragon from my Nephew Richard on</span><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">the left page. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And.... my daughter Sarah contributed on the right page. She</span><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">drew the frown and tears on my BMX rider's face after being told to do the</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> dishes.</span><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Ah the memories!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Dudes, those Robin fish have what look like spider</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> legs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Ruth Pratt Bobbs is</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> a killer painter I never heard of. (That is her lady in a museum in Terre</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Haute In.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Found the feather on the beach. Seagulls were terrible models.</span><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But a dead crab was a great poser! And I have BMX on the brain!</span><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I think that about coves it.</span><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><br style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" /><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">4130 represent! (Anyone know what that means. If so you are rad. Literally.)</span></span></div>
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<br />Scott M. Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04445626584993100428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8203730525567329846.post-31444626022639793772012-07-13T09:10:00.001-07:002012-07-13T09:10:47.092-07:00Fable cover<div class="separator" style="background-color: black; clear: both; color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">
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I was pretty psyched when Del Rey contacted me about doing the cover for the novelization of the super cool Fable video game series.</div>
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I know the game, but what I know more than the game is the art for the game. Such great concept art. And the packaging by the stupendous Jo Chen is some of my favorite box art. </div>
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Check out her work.</div>
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So it was a pleasure to contribute to such a visually inspiring world.<br /> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Weapon of choice: a sexy stainless steel Parker </span></div>
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