Tuesday, January 11, 2011

New book

Today, another book I worked on becomes available - another "Cars" Step into Reading book called "Go, Go, Go!" Here's one of the spreads I illustrated for it, featuring Trevor the train.




4 comments:

Christopher Greco said...

Its always a pleasure to visit your blog and enjoy the work. Happy 2011!

Miss-Manitas said...

Nice characters, I'm wishing to see this film :)

Sam Wang said...

These are great Ron. Tech question. So you do a tight pencil and then paint in photoshop right. Ho do you cover up the lines so it looks fully painted? Are you painting directly? Using paths?

Ron said...

Thanks, Sam! That means a lot, coming from you.

The way I've been stumbling about it, that seems to work so far, is to scan in clean lines and dim their opacity quite a bit, depending on how visible you want them to be (if at all). If necessary, I'll use paths, sometimes imported from Illustrator if I want specific inking styles. Then, I can either paint the actual lines (using pixel lock), or, more often, just use them as a guide and paint over them. You can also multiply the line layer so that it blends better with the paint. I was so used to keeping linework pristine, from my animation days, that it's been tough to retrain myself to paint over them.