Process stuff for my Totoro painting

by matt on July 24, 2008

Here are a couple preliminary gouache sketches I did for my piece for the Totoro Forest Project. I didn’t really need to do them, I just had my paints out and wanted to play around before starting.

Here’s the lineart – done with a G-nib pen and FW black ink. I love FW, but it often globs around and things can get messy quickly (like down there in the bottom right corner).

Then I added a couple layers of brush strokes and knocked out all of the unnecessary outlines. Here’s me playing with a bunch of colours.

In the end, I decided to keep the composition and colours very simple and uncluttered.

Also check out Clio Chang’s process sketches for her Totoro piece, Shedding.

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DH. July 24, 2008 at 8:26 am

Brilliant! Are the brushstroke layers on tracing paper or something? Or did you use a lightbox?

I wish I could afford to buy from the auction– there is so much great art in the show!

Greg Gondocs July 24, 2008 at 8:56 am

Great stuff Matt! I love this composition and these colours!

matt July 24, 2008 at 9:41 am

Thanks :) Yep, I used a lightbox. There’s one built into my drawing table. Very handy so I use it all the time.

Jason Lemay July 24, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Wow ! I really like the first one =)

Emilie August 21, 2008 at 5:56 pm

I love this painting so so much.

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