Thank you so much @okaymaal for trusting me to bring your vision to life! I had so much fun painting these nostalgic skates!
Process photos will be in the thread below
So we started with a billeted list of characters, and these are the original sketches I came up with based on a rough layout I made with characters digitally.
After the initial sketches were approved we moved to digital outlines and flat color proofs for the skates. Traced digitally from the sketches I made.
Once those were approved I used a white chalk marker that could be easily wiped off with water if necessary to sketch the characters onto the leather skates. I actually only made a couple small errors that needed to be redone before applying paint thankfully
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It was then time for flat colors, details and shading, and then finally the outline as referenced in the original post with the finals!
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😄" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und lächelnden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und lächelnden Augen"> thank you for taking the time look through this thread and read through my process
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