Sleeping boy

Mar 16th, 2009 by J. O'Brien

This is a personal piece created for licensing, a sleeping boy.

Step 6: added final shading and textures.

Step 5: introduced additional background texture.

Step 4: replaced the sketch with final line work.

Step 3: added a white texture for the shirt and fingernails.

Step 2: blocked in figure and background color.

Step 1: this is the rough sketch for the image.

on 24 Mar 2009 at 2:35 pm1john

i love seeing your process. It looks fabulous. I love the background texture, but i’m sort of losing the pillow after step 3. I thought he was praying at first.
on 30 Mar 2009 at 3:34 am2mark

Lovely. Is the final line work done digitally?
on 30 Mar 2009 at 11:09 am3J. O'Brien

Thanks. The pillow is a bit obscure, praying is a welcome second message, not directly intentional. All of the line work is scanned in pencil, cut and arranged and colorized.

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