The cover to the collaboration Ace Attorney comic I'm working on with 5 other artists right now called 'Tales of Turnabout'. Since there was no set theme to the anthology, I decided to do a cover with all the featured characters on it (Which was luckily only 7), but since there was so many characters, I decided to do a front and back cover combo to make it something special.
The prgress of thought with this version of the cover was starting off with Franziska, and how I wanted to draw her in a cheongsam, like she is in StudioKawaii's title page inthe comic, and the rest kind of panned out from there. The tiled off area is 'make believe', where the landscape is based off a photo in a park in Los Angeles (somewhere O.O). Since I don't live in America it's all pretty inaccurate T.T
Anyways, I wanted a nice cheerful cover to the comic :)
Done in copic markers.
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(LA works for everything, you just have to catch it from the right angle.)
(With alot of things, yes. I do alot of medieval fantasy art- not so much currently, but usually I do. New Zealand is more appropriate for that. Or UK )
In this picture I happened to draw everything at the wrong proportion completely and utterly. For this, I slapped it into photoshop, twieeked the lineart till it was correct, and reprinted it on bristol again. I had to redo the linearts from scratch, but correcting it was well worth it http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v734/arkillian/ToTcover.jpg It looked like this before I tweeked it. The different levels gave the picture depth it didn't have before it.
In conclusion, I use mixed media when it's needed, so yes. If I need the look another medium gives, I wont hesitate to use it. Why not? IT's not cheating. There's not cheating in illustration. Just an end product Resizing it in photoshop is no different from me redrawing it from scratch again except I saved myself TRUCK loads of time and frustration by just using a faster medium to do the job. Never be affraid to mix mediums to get a better result. Just don't cut corners on quality cause of it. Mixed media should improve art not cheapen it.
I have to mix media it any way cause to reproduce a traditional picture, I have to scan it anyways