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Published: 2009-02-19 17:37:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 1457; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 57
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illustration for the 3rd flyer in the series of:goth flyer 1
goth flyer 2
this time, the flyer will advertise two types of event. the front illo is for my friends monthly evening.
back side
i uploaded the sketch here:
goth flyer 3 sketch
either it was my rather tedious (for me) preplanning, working directly on top of a b/w sketch or there was something in the water, but i finished this one in about 3 hours including rather luxurious breaks. maybe i was just excited about my new monitor.
anyway, my friend requested something with a dragon in it and i didnt really like the idea at first. i am quite happy with the end product, though.
poor knight on horseback seems to be in for a nice crash landing...
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Comments: 12
This is more than kickass! Amazing comp and illustration!
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truth be told, this one was a total zen-like thing. sat down, zoned out, "woke up" to the finished piece.
while the result made me really happy, its one of those cases where "it just worked", and i didnt really, consciously, learn much from it. (maybe that is a lesson itself)
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possibly one of THE most badass pieces ive ever seen on here
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many, many thanks
there really must have been something in the water at that time, since its stood up rather well: its over a year old and i regularly use one of those flyers as bookmark, so i do see it rather often, and i still think its one of the better things ive done. 
on a side note: the sketch to this piece (linked in the description) is another example of how little suggestion here and there it takes to make this stuff work in black and white only. its really like, getting the big shapes down and most of the job is done.
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yeah, i have to say, i like that you put more focus on the knights in the finished product. were you always planning to do that, or was that an on-a-whim thing?
great job, either way.
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that must have occured to me while overpainting the sketch - while that scale difference between dragon and knights in the sketch is rather epic, it tends to look a bit one-sided, or, even worse, the knights might get lost in print. this is just an a6 size print, after all.
so, enlarging them a tad ensured their survival (omg, worst pun evar) and adding a direct adversary broke up the space in front of the dragons head into smaller shapes (i.e. more contrast in less space = more interest) and it made for more of a confrontation, a bit more of a story to see.
so yeah, i saw there wasnt enough stuff happening, and fixed it, basically.
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very nice. thanks for answering all my comments, too!
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thank you very much!
i see you draw dragons much more regularly than i do, so thumbs up from you means quite something!
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