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| After cropping, sizing, and adjusting color and brightness of the photo, this is the base canvas for the comic panel. All those little smudgey spots on the floor are where I've used FunTack to anchor the figures in various scenes. Usually I erase them out, but this time I'm leaving them in for effect. I did, however erase the excess Fun Tack that oozed along their shoes.If you look close, you can tell there's still a little showing in the point where Beavis' feet meet. | First up is background. Since I've yet to find any color of poster board that works well as sort of a green screen, the background gets laid over top of the base photo, and I erase wherever I want things to show through (I drop the opacity way down so I can see through it while I'm working). For this background, I grabbed 2 screenshots from the episode (starry sky and library exterior), merged them together, then repainted the 3 stars to make them a little bigger. | |
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| Since the shots I used for the background didn't really go all the way to the ground, I tried to create some illusion of depth and distance from the library building by dividing the background from the foreground with a curb. | Yellow parking space lines went in next and I did a low-opacity erasing of the lines where they overlapped natural shadows so they'd show through. And now you can see why I left in the Fun Tack spots - kind of looks like the funk you see on parking lot blacktop. | The final piece of the parking lot surface is a shadow gradient coming out from the curb to give it more depth and enhance the night time look. |
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| Returning to the background/sky, I painted in the extra stars to spell out "FAIL". | With the artwork complete, I add a border and put in the talk bubbles to finish the panel. | |
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| After cropping, sizing, and adjusting color and brightness of the photo, this is the base canvas for the comic panel. | Cameron came out kind of dark in this one and if I'd lightened the whole photo any further it would have washed out Quasimodo too much. So here I did some selective brightening just around Cameron. I knew the background going in next would hide the halo around her so I didn't have to be accurate. | Time for background. I overlaid a brick wall photo, fiddled with its color and brightness, cut the opening around Quasimodo, then erased what I wanted to show through: Cameron and the little sign. The brick wall is a piece of stock photography that I have. Whenever possible, I use stock or screengrabs from the show, but I often have to snag stuff off the web or dig through my own photo library. |
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| I had a tough time finding the right "break glass" frame and actually had to do a considerable amount of work to the frame itself before it was usable - there was existing text to take off, stuff to cut away and sections I had to recreate to get it the way I wanted it. | With the frame in place, I colored the interior to match. To do that, I duplicated the area behind the frame, overlayed it with red, modified brightness and hue, then erased Quasimodo to reveal the original Quasimodo beneath. It was basically like doing a photo overlay. My backdrop isn't pure enough and lighting not good enough to simply select an area for modification. | Glass is a tricky thing to try to create, but I think I did an okay job with this. It doesn't really look like glass, but you get the idea it's supposed to be glass. So, good enough, right? Anyway, to do that, I just added a layer of white between the hunchback and the red frame, reduced the opacity and then erased some of it. |
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| Minor step here of adding in some shadows. I made the sign cast a shadow onto the red frame and put a slight shadow behind Cameron's gun. Both of those were done just with a low opacity black brush and then I erased some to shape them better. I also used a standard shadow filter on the brick background layer to create depth around the red frame. | I added the lettering to the red frame and put some words on the sign. And since the opporunity presented itself, I couldn't resist sticking my name in there;) | The artwork is complete, so I add on the border and talk bubbles to finish off the panel. |
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