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Eight minutes to draw a “tribute to Neil Armstrong”

Well, it’s not perfect, but far more telling than the previous four-steps how-to. 

I made the previously released tribute to Neil Armstrong with the idea of filming the whole process. What involved trying to draw fast, at once, and editing an even quicker video. So I sat up a webcam above the ipad (yes, it could be better…), made some tea (too much, as usual), and started drawing at 2 a.m.

The camera wasn’t filming but shooting a picture every 1.5 second, using autowebcam.

The sketch was finished around 4 a.m. what generated over 5100 pictures (640x480), edited in windows MovieMaker with real Appolo 11 radio records for your ears.

The 8’30 long video (should be shorter), has been put on youtube with a few more comments. But I forgot to rotate it…

As re-encoding the files takes forever, a 180° version will be available soon… meanwhile, flip your screen

Stay tuned !

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Larry wrote Hi Florent. Love your site. With the smoking girl from panel 3 to 4, can you provide tips on how you you get to the soft blending of shades of her skin, nose, etc using Paper? What combination and order of tools do you use? Thanks. Larry. Hi Larry, unfortunately I haven’t got a recipe, since I’m not an “academic drawer”, it’s more about a trial and error process (which usually takes a lot of time).  To help, I made a new animated sketch of “The smoking girl” (with more details than the four-steps note previously released). I began with the shadows, using the black paintbrush on a slight pencil outline, adding layers of black watercolor, to complete the general “volumes” of the sketch. Shapes and shades are corrected with the pencil, using black and grey colors.  Pencil marks are, then, smoothened with white paintbrush (by applying little touches). Grey paintbrush is also used to “warm up” the sketch, and smooth black and white tones, at the same time.  Then, I do it again, with pencil (black, grey and white, by small and fast touches), smoothened by watercolors (black, white and grey), until it looks more “real”. By the way, do not hesitate to use the white marker on the shone parts, but with parcimony : only dots where the light is reflected. The rendering can be quite impressive. I lack time, these days, but I’ll try to make a more “step by step” how-to for the next sketch (maybe a video, don’t know yet). Meanwhile, I hope the animated how-to attached here will help you. Oh wait, I forgot the most important : the model. The smoking girl is inspired by this picture of I guess Kate Moss   

Larry wrote
Hi Florent. Love your site. With the smoking girl from panel 3 to 4, can you provide tips on how you you get to the soft blending of shades of her skin, nose, etc using Paper? What combination and order of tools do you use? Thanks. Larry.

Hi Larry, unfortunately I haven’t got a recipe, since I’m not an “academic drawer”, it’s more about a trial and error process (which usually takes a lot of time). 
To help, I made a new animated sketch of “The smoking girl” (with more details than the four-steps note previously released).
  • I began with the shadows, using the black paintbrush on a slight pencil outline, adding layers of black watercolor, to complete the general “volumes” of the sketch.
  • Shapes and shades are corrected with the pencil, using black and grey colors. 
  • Pencil marks are, then, smoothened with white paintbrush (by applying little touches).
  • Grey paintbrush is also used to “warm up” the sketch, and smooth black and white tones, at the same time. 
  • Then, I do it again, with pencil (black, grey and white, by small and fast touches), smoothened by watercolors (black, white and grey), until it looks more “real”.
  • By the way, do not hesitate to use the white marker on the shone parts, but with parcimony : only dots where the light is reflected. The rendering can be quite impressive.
I lack time, these days, but I’ll try to make a more “step by step” how-to for the next sketch (maybe a video, don’t know yet). Meanwhile, I hope the animated how-to attached here will help you.
  • Oh wait, I forgot the most important : the model.
The smoking girl is inspired by this picture of I guess Kate Moss 
Kate Moss

 

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Maurice Sendak : Four steps to a tribute The creator of ”Where the Wild Things Are”, Maurice Sendak, passed away on may 8. As the news was spreading over the web, sketchylefty called for homages made with the Paper app on his tumblr.  His call sounded like an interesting and motivating challenge to meet with the Paper app. As soon as I read the note on tumblr I looked for Sendak pictures on Google and printed one. As usual, I looked for close-up pictures, since the app does not provide a zoom option to draw accurately small details (it’s a part of its charm, however). Then, I began to draw quite quickly, hurried by the call. So much so I forgot to save work in progress pictures (I did only 3 times) and finished the sketch in about 2 hours. Promised, the next sketch will be far more detailed (it will be presented here next week). As you can see, the first step was done using the foutain pen again, instead of the pencil. But very slowly, allowing to draw thin and sharp lines. I included “raw” hands, just in case : I even expected to erase them later because hands and ears are often the most difficult body parts to draw (and I didn’t want to spend the night on it). But I finally achieved them, with pencils, and “cleaned” the background using the eraser.

Maurice Sendak : Four steps to a tribute

The creator of ”Where the Wild Things Are”, Maurice Sendak, passed away on may 8. As the news was spreading over the web, sketchylefty called for homages made with the Paper app on his tumblr. 

His call sounded like an interesting and motivating challenge to meet with the Paper app. As soon as I read the note on tumblr I looked for Sendak pictures on Google and printed one. As usual, I looked for close-up pictures, since the app does not provide a zoom option to draw accurately small details (it’s a part of its charm, however).

Then, I began to draw quite quickly, hurried by the call. So much so I forgot to save work in progress pictures (I did only 3 times) and finished the sketch in about 2 hours. Promised, the next sketch will be far more detailed (it will be presented here next week).

As you can see, the first step was done using the foutain pen again, instead of the pencil. But very slowly, allowing to draw thin and sharp lines.

I included “raw” hands, just in case : I even expected to erase them later because hands and ears are often the most difficult body parts to draw (and I didn’t want to spend the night on it). But I finally achieved them, with pencils, and “cleaned” the background using the eraser.

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