17/06: moviescript ending
i have always loved the film clip to the death cab song 'a movie script ending' - the flicking photographic nature of it, the story, and the song of course. so while watching it the other day, i freeze-framed it and decided to draw one of my favourite scenes from it
i got out my ink and brushes, which havent been used in a while, and got to work, drawing the base lines. i was trying to avoid drawing a lot of shadow, which i find quite hard to do (i always seem to get over-enthusiastic with shadows!). the final line work looked like this:

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then came the shadow layer:

here's a more detailed pic:

i couldn't decide whether to leave it there or to colour it... i really like the black and white version, but i started adding colour, just to see what it looked like. so i added different shadows, changing the blending modes of the layers in photoshop, added light gradients, colour and pattern and it ended up like this:


i got out my ink and brushes, which havent been used in a while, and got to work, drawing the base lines. i was trying to avoid drawing a lot of shadow, which i find quite hard to do (i always seem to get over-enthusiastic with shadows!). the final line work looked like this:

click read more for more images
then came the shadow layer:

here's a more detailed pic:

i couldn't decide whether to leave it there or to colour it... i really like the black and white version, but i started adding colour, just to see what it looked like. so i added different shadows, changing the blending modes of the layers in photoshop, added light gradients, colour and pattern and it ended up like this:


Category: illustration
Posted by: ali

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