
Mr. Reyes gave me a lot of trouble as I was drawing him. I wanted him to have an animated look, and I could draw his body just fine, but when it came to his face, I just couldn't get it to look right. If I made it too cartoony, then it didn't look like him, and if I made it look more like him, then he didn't look cartoony enough. I went through a ton of revisions before I found the right balance.
The secret was to shrink his face inside his head, so that his features were smaller than they should be. Once I did that it seemed to click.
Originally the color scheme was much more garish, but I didn't think it was working. So I desaturated it quite a bit and that seemed to help.
Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.
By the way, Jorge Garcia has a blog too. It's a fun read. He seems like a nice guy.



UPDATE!: I just looked at this drawing again and noticed that I messed up "the numbers." I had the last two in the sequence wrong for some reason. Either no eagle-eyed LOST fans noticed, or everyone was too polite to point out my stupidity. I fixed them, so they're right now.
How does this have no comments? I love this drawing!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Sometimes it just works out that way-- some posts that I think will get a lot of comments don't, while ones that I can't imagine ever getting any get dozens.
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