Skater moon

Hey guys and gal's, here is my latest illustration.  Its really a submission for Eirtakon 2016 and hopefully we can get in. Its skater moon!! Its a parody/ pop culture image of the sailor moon characters geared up for a roller derby match.  I have some friends who are on some roller derby teams and it looks really cool.  I wanted to do a few anime parodies with a cool twist on it. Sailor moon popped up in my head and I thought it would be pretty funny to see the Sailor Scouts in a roller derby, looking bad ass and tough.

also if you like this illustration and would like it for yourself the check out the links below.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/works/21877622-skater-moon?p=t-shirt&style=womens&body_color=gold&print_location=front

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/515460-skater-moon

anyway lets get down to the break down.

1. Rough

For the first part I worked on Sailor Moon, Mars and Mercury, I was originally only going to do 3 of them but thought it would look more interesting with a character line up.  I used a default brush in Photoshop and kept it rough and scribbly for the most part.

2. Vector Shapes

After the characters were all done a started making vector to build up the characters on by one.  As you can see here in the picture above I kept the characters as flat a possible.

3. full character shapes

I made each for the character full and each has a bit of a variation so you can tell them apart.  I left the background and the facial details till very last to I didn't make any mistakes on the characters.

4. final version

After finishing all the characters I worked on all the characters faces and line work.  Once the Line work was all done I made a nice pop looking logo and added a simple looker room background.  Here are some close up crops of the full resolution version.  The version I do put online is only 100.  the normal resolution is 300.

Anyway thanks so much again check out the blog, also let me know what you think :)

Attack on Evangelion 100th Post

Hey Guys and Gals,

Since this is my 100th post here is an Art trade I did with my friend Dave De Keyser.  He's is an amazing animator and illustrator.  If you wanna check out his art work follow the links below.

Dave De Keyser

http://oneminutestudios.blogspot.ie/

https://www.facebook.com/theartofdave

So the Art trade is we both choose a subject to draw and Dave gave me a few of his favorite anime shows to draw from and I saw Attack on Titan and Evangelion, I kinda had a spark in my head and this was the result, It took a long time to finish because I've been really busy.  So I took the time and an hour a day doing this.

Break Down

I started with a really rough gesture of the characters and the buildings.

Once I was happy with the rough, I started putting the characters on model and start the the line work.  Since these characters are so Iconic so I used reference from there shows to keep them on model.

Once all the like work is done I start filling in all the flat color for the characters and the background.

I used the colors directly form there model sheets or screen shots to keep them true to the show.

Once the flat tone is done I start adding in gradients for the characters and the building so they are light the same as the sky.  I add shading and two main color highlights, one from the sun and red to be the over all light.  I also added airbrush dust clouds around the characters and rubble to both show the impact they had on the building but also the sheer size of the Titan and Eva.  I also painted in textures into the ground and buildings to ad even more detail.

Hope you all enjoy, I'll have more stuff for you soon.  Also Please Follow me blog, twitter and tumblr if you want more.

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or if you want a print of it go hear :D

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/works/11842248-attack-on-evangelion?p=art-print