Category Archive for ‘digital painting’ at AndreasNor.com

I started with my initial sketch and coloured on a new layer in with a natural brush set to ‘colour’. Adjusted opacity. Made a gradient fill with texture for background, then I started painting with a natural brush set to ‘normal’, with angle jitter turned up to around 70-80%. Then I adjusted levels and saturation.

Here’s the final image:

DC3: T for Team

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Andreas Nor

on November 24, 2009

in comics, digital painting, drawing and composition 3, drawings, teesside university and works

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Update (26. November 2009): I made this in Photoshop, but after a presentation/tutorial by Nigel Dobbyn at the University, I’ve decided to continue this style in the superior (for inking) Illustrator.

This is an experiment. I went away from my sketchy/painty style and went for some comic book-ish style for this piece.

It just started as a doodle, but I kept working on it. The composition is not good at all, but this is one layer, so I can’t move things around easily. Note to self: Start with composition next time.

I could remove the guy to the right and cut away a tiny bit of the backgrond, then it would be solved, but it wouldn’t be a team anymore.

And yes, Mike Mignola is awesome…

AVE: Visual Effects Animatic Draft #1

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Andreas Nor

on November 23, 2009

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I’ve been busy with other things this week, but managed to put together an animatic for the AVE assignment.

I took the storyboard pictures, cut them out and imported them in Adobe Premiere. Then the shots we’re put together in the timeline and timed.

Added an animated cloud layer over the exterior shots and a fume layer over the interior shots. They are hard to see in the render I did, but will hopefully be fixed.

I added a piece of music that I intend to use in the final product. Sound effects are yet to be put in.

Here is the animatic:

DC3: (WIP) H for Hunter

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Andreas Nor

on November 10, 2009

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I was looking through my sketch folder and found this, which I apparently did 22. October…

…Which I played around with until I got this:

Now I just have to finish the thing.

The balance of the character is of course wrong, but I will fix this later, when I continue working on it.

I will give him/it some weapon and maybe decorate him with skulls and bones, to make him/it become ‘H’ for ‘Hunter’.

AVE: (WIP) Storyboard/moodboard

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Andreas Nor

on November 9, 2009

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DC3: Zodiac Rat

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Andreas Nor

on October 16, 2009

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An update! Woohoo!!!

I think I started on this about two to three hours ago. Now it’s about 3 AM, and this is supposed to be finished in time for the lecture/lab tomorrow.

The assignment was: “Draw a coloured 2D image representing your European star sign or Chinese year sign.”

So I’m both a rat and libra, and wanted to combine them, but meh! Too much work. Got to sleep as well!

I wanted to put the libra sign on the shield, but that’s very time consuming (at least to get it right).

I started out with a line drawing, then shaded it. Made cleaner lines around it, made the shading resemble fur and tried to blend the lines in with the shading. Added colour with a layer set to overlay mode. Tweaked levels. Added texture and more colour via more layers, some set to overlay, some to multiply. Added a spear tip to the staff. Desaturated the overall colour a bit. Flipped the picture horisontally.

And here’s the result: