This is an illustration the I drew to help illustrate the ‘Story Tails - Storytelling for Cartoon Strips’ course. I wanted an image go go along with the phrase “It doesn’t have to be set in stone, and for some reason the heads on Easter Island popped into my head.
Seeing as I hadn’t drawn an Easter Island cartoon before, or at least not for a very long time, I thought this would fit the bill.
Here’s the finished cartoon, now let’s go back and look at the steps involved in creating it.
Here’s the initial outline.
’m now starting to add colour. I’m using digital watercolour in Procreate and dapping on different tones at 30% opacity to slowly build up a stone effect.
I’m now adding washes for the grass. Gerald is on a transparent layer, which is why you can see straight through him. I’ll apply another layer under the transparency later on and colour in under him white.
I’m well underway with the sky now, I though that a dramatic looking sky would work well with the statue.
And here’s the finished picture again. I decided to add a lot of darker tones to the pic to make it more dramatic still. It looks as though there is a storm rolling in, which almost creates a story within the cartoon of what’s going to happen next.
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