Niall Byrne: Daddy 76

Sunday, 11 March 2018

Edgy Uncle Reaper

Hey Guys and Gals, Its been way to long. This is the last illustration I made and debuted at Dublin Comic Con 2017. Its also the second Overwatch illustration for a collection I will be working on. Mostly for fun, There will definitely be a third one eventually. Its an Edge Uncle Reaper to match the Daddy 76 illustration. He baby sitting Baby Gremlin D.va and Kid Sombra. I thought it be fun to use Reaper for for this because there is a lot of relate Uncle Reaper jokes besides the Daddy 76, Any way lets get down to the Breakdown.

1. Rough

I started with a very Rough Scribble and added a couple extra layers to work out the Details.

2. Line Art

After the Rough was finished I started work on the Line and little changes for comedic affect.

3. Flat Color

Once the line art was done. I made a later under the line and worked out the silhouette for the characters and clipped the colour to that layer. I also added a cool textured wall to make the image look a little more gritty. The way I made the paint faded chipped away on the wall was a random combination of splatter brushes and dry brush lines and dust spots.

4. Final Render.

Once that was all done I started work on the shading and Highlights. I also added the smokey effect Reaper has during his ultimate and more Lettering, I really love the green of baby D.va's little text saying "PEW PEW PEW PEW". It really helps it stand out.

Anyway thanks so much for all the love and support, There will Definitely be a third one coming hopefully if I get to do Dublin Comic Con this year. It was a great experience and loved seeing all the beautiful Art, Cosplays, Guests and interacting with you.

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Thursday, 10 November 2016

They call me Daddy

Hey Guys and Gals.

Hope you all getting on well. Eirtakon is over and I am still recovering lol It was a very long week but I was so happy to see so many of you and I selling a fair few posters. I will be looking into being at more cons so if there are any in your area let me know. Anyway this is one of my favorite illustrations I did for the con. Its "Daddy 76"!! Now I have played alot of overwatch, almost religiously since it came out. I love the characters and there personalities, the jokes and memes and the beautiful fan art I see online. So I chose to do the Daddy 76, if you listen to soldier 76 audio clips he's a really dad or grumpy old man. I wanted to illustrate the idea that he is the a stone cold serious character but also the best dad ever so under his Jacket I gave him a number one dad shirt and his kids all over him, including a baby gremlin D.VA and a nuaghty Junkrat toldler. I think is cute and hilarious but anyway here is a quick break down of how I made the illustration.

1. Rough

So I started off by doing alot of different roughs of the character but the one here I though turned out the best. Some of the other angles I had didn't display the shirt big enough so I stuck with this one. I used a default brush and just tried to may a rough guide and ad as much detail as I could for later on.

2. Line Art

After the rough I worked on the line art and added all the tiny details. I also did the line with for the baby D.VA and kid Junkrat later on but added them in here si you can see what it looks like. Hardest Part was making baby diva look like herself , cute and not too cartoony.

3. Color Art

After finishing the line work I made a base shape for the three characters. After making the shapes, I clipped layers to add all the color, each color has a different layer to keep it clean. It really started looking great and after this i started added shading and highlights to create more volume.

4. Shading and Highlights

Once I started adding the shading it really started to pop. I kepts it very simply with a white highlight to the left and a pink tint to the right. Also the shading was a dark blue color. I wanted to make it change. I really think it turned out great and will hopefully do more like this. Just for fun.

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