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This was fun, though my watercolor teacher didn't really like it. I think he thought it was too illustrative. He also told me it didn't "have feeling" or something like that. I suppose he was right. I guess it could be seen as a bit sterile. But I kind of wanted it to be that way!

I was looking to sort of combine the contour linework of, well, kind of like a comic book, with the penwork shading of lithography, sort of. Kind of an "old and modern" relationship in the look. Especially with those kind of retro colors... I then took the watercolor to the pen drawing for awhile... I also did some color correction in PS.

I wanted it to also have sort of a cel-shaded "design-ey" kind of vibe going on, like where the orange squares are.

Finally, for a little illustrative element, I've got a tiny figure standing on top of that giant stack of piping on the upper right area.

When I brought this in on its due date, I had only done a chunk of the pen work. I had no idea that the project carried such a big weight.

I had a pretty bad grade in the book for awhile afterwards because it was the only graded assignment I had so far. I'll have to learn my lesson (though I was able to raise it.)

Description
This was fun, though my watercolor teacher didn't really like it. I think he thought it was too illustrative. He also told me it didn't "have feeling" or something like that. I suppose he was right. I guess it could be seen as a bit sterile. But I kind of wanted it to be that way!

I was looking to sort of combine the contour linework of, well, kind of like a comic book, with the penwork shading of lithography, sort of. Kind of an "old and modern" relationship in the look. Especially with those kind of retro colors... I then took the watercolor to the pen drawing for awhile... I also did some color correction in PS.

I wanted it to also have sort of a cel-shaded "design-ey" kind of vibe going on, like where the orange squares are.

Finally, for a little illustrative element, I've got a tiny figure standing on top of that giant stack of piping on the upper right area.

When I brought this in on its due date, I had only done a chunk of the pen work. I had no idea that the project carried such a big weight.

I had a pretty bad grade in the book for awhile afterwards because it was the only graded assignment I had so far. I'll have to learn my lesson (though I was able to raise it.)