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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Rough Design In Progress

I screen-recorded this design's inital drawing part and put it on Vimeo. This sketch btw was more or less the preliminary draft to the "huge" bird character in the previous posting here (paper plane kit). Anyway, here you are:




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8 comments:

  1. wonderful stuff, I love seeing how you think and make decisions on shapes and line.

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  2. I realy like to see how you are workin on ...!
    thx

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  3. what resolution are you working with?

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  4. Kendra, Faboun'e, cheers! :)

    Hi Lee, the res I'm working with is something like 350-400dpi, 11 by 7 inches.

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  5. Everytime it was an great experience for me to join your blog.. Amazing art you include.. This time also, creativity was clearly seen in this designs..Really appreciating..

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  6. Once again, paperwalker, very inspirational!

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  7. I love your art style! I have been following The Art Center for a long time (thru Rad Sechrist's blog). Just found paperwalker and now will be following this as well!

    I know it's random, but what is the song you used on Work In Progress 5? Very interesting.

    Thanks!

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  8. Jake, cheers! The song is "Lovsonr" by Bobby Baby: LINK

    Harold, thanks again!! :)

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