I spent today creating a professional poster print of out final bare bear design in Photoshop. I spoke to Mike Smith who suggested I take my concept work to the next level in order to advance myself as a character designer. I have always tended to work in coloured pencil during concept stages as it is my natural medium and I find it easy to knock out loose designs on paper. However I have always faced the problem of how to colour my designs professionally when I finalise one. So far my best efforts have been with magic markers, although even they are hard to achieve block colour with. I have always wanted to be good at photoshop colouring and so decided to give it another stab as past attempts have failed miserably.
Mike showed me some work by an established 3rd year artist named Tony Trimmer who I instantly admired for his PS artwork. I love how he uses the software to colour his characters. He doesn't use block colour or gradients, nor does he work in the over done manga black outlined style. He colours using textures and photos mixed with sharp jagged shadows. http://www.tonytrimmer.com/
Alec showed me the basic tools and techniques needed to get started after I had scanned in my drawing and set it as an outline layer. I learnt various tools such as ...add inner and outer glow, emboss, add to selection, decrease selection, blending layers, and many many more. From then on I worked alone and managed to produce a piece which I am really really proud of. I tried to emulate tony trimmers style but encorporate my own personality and techniques to my drawing. It is my favourite piece of concept work to date and portrays Bare Bear in all his glory!
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