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Making of a pinup.
Hi everyone! So, here’s the sequence I usually follow in creating my pinups; first, a very undetailed sketch, just to sort out if the pose is humanly doable, eye catching, has correctness of proportions, etc. This is also the moment I use to implement perspective exxagerations, superheroic poses, etc.
Second step are the more detailed “pencils”; now the check for anatomy gets deeper. Pull out your anatomy references, and verify everything works. In my mind I’m also starting to cast shadows; normally on a separate level, so that the basic outline stays safe in case of mistakes, or if I decide to change the light source.
Basic inking; I don’t really follow precisely my pencils, also because I like to keep the latter a bit sketched. It helps me avoid “rigidity”. This is why I ink myself: it would be a nightmare for an inker to sort out the correct lines in all my mess.
Final inking; filling the voids, applying corrections, polishing everything.
2 tricks I learned, in order to “clean my eye cache”, and be able to spot (hopefully) the errors are: looking at the image mirrored, and looking at the image shrinked. Usually at the early sketch level, and final inking.
Thanks for your patience; cheers!

Description

Making of a pinup.
Hi everyone! So, here’s the sequence I usually follow in creating my pinups; first, a very undetailed sketch, just to sort out if the pose is humanly doable, eye catching, has correctness of proportions, etc. This is also the moment I use to implement perspective exxagerations, superheroic poses, etc.
Second step are the more detailed “pencils”; now the check for anatomy gets deeper. Pull out your anatomy references, and verify everything works. In my mind I’m also starting to cast shadows; normally on a separate level, so that the basic outline stays safe in case of mistakes, or if I decide to change the light source.
Basic inking; I don’t really follow precisely my pencils, also because I like to keep the latter a bit sketched. It helps me avoid “rigidity”. This is why I ink myself: it would be a nightmare for an inker to sort out the correct lines in all my mess.
Final inking; filling the voids, applying corrections, polishing everything.
2 tricks I learned, in order to “clean my eye cache”, and be able to spot (hopefully) the errors are: looking at the image mirrored, and looking at the image shrinked. Usually at the early sketch level, and final inking.
Thanks for your patience; cheers!