For my picture book Bigfoot vs Yeti: A Love Story, I used a digital linocut technique for the illustrations.
Linocut is normally a printmaking technique – so how do you do it digitally?
I’m using a 2017 iPad pro, with a 1st gen apple pencil and the Procreate app.
The digital linocut brushes came from Patternologie and Seamless Team.
Over the last 3 weeks I’ve shown the process of developing the opening scene of Last Viking. I covered the first roughs, some more developed ideas, and the final pencils.
I’d gotten up to here:
and now this week: the final colours.
My first go wasn’t too bad- but the night-time panel wasn’t dark enough. It seemed like early morning, and Josh would (should) be asleep by then 🙂 I wasn’t sure about the colours in the day-time panel either. But I liked the blur of colour from the left-hand panel across the gutter.
When I had tried colours for a few pages, I started to see that sometimes it looked good if just a few things were coloured in, and other parts were left white. So I tried that. And I darkened up the night-time panel.
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James Foley 