Loss – Process
I originally called this piece Cheating, since the idea was to show a girl who was upset about finding our her boyfriend was cheating on her. I prefer ‘Loss’ now since it’s more general and describes the general theme of the picture more clearly I think. 
This was the original sketch. I wanted to make it a silhouette piece at first with a red and purple color scheme.
When I started working on it today I changed my mind about making it a flat silhouette piece. So I also flipped the image as I think it works better with the girl on the left. I tried some new coloring techniques in Illustrator – well not really new, just in a way I don’t usually work in.
I brought the artwork over to Photoshop in layers. Normally I export pieces as EPS files and import them, but I got lazy so I just did a cut-and-paste job. I started messing with dropping textures and changing colors.
Several hours and a whole bunch of layers later, the final piece is done. I am quite happy with the more organic feel of the piece. Normally brushwork on top of my vector work doesn’t really sit well, but with a simplified vector base, it seems like it’s easier to work in effects in Photoshop. It would be nice to have a bit of a film stain effect too but I don’t have a texture like that on hand and I’m too tired to go looking on the net or make one now.
Tags: Illustration, Process
February 28th, 2008 at 8:10 am
It ended up quite fine. Beautiful piece!
March 10th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Yea the final piece definitely conveyed the “Loss” message very well. Very nice.