Inktober #27 - CLIMBI tried a couple different approaches to this one. One was going to be a silhoue
Inktober #27 - CLIMBI tried a couple different approaches to this one. One was going to be a silhouette of a climber hanging from a rock but it didn’t have the impact I wanted. The other was going to be a top-down view of someone climbing a rope ladder but when I was looking for references, I kept seeing photos of just a hand coming over the top of a ridge and I thought that portrayed the sense of what I was going after better than anything. I wanted the struggle to be evident, but the photos of the climbers I kept finding made it look easy, and a ladder, well, that’s more of a preset path than anything.Struggle builds character. Without testing, we never find our limits and can never push our personal boundaries further. Staying motivated to challenge yourself is important, and seems to be valued less and less. The older I get, the more I appreciate opportunities for growth, but the often (always?) come cloaked in the disguise of struggle. Problems are there to solve; they’re like gifts to keep you from becoming soft - but god knows it doesn’t always feel that way. For brushes this time I went with the Manga Smoothy for lines and the Cubist color. Now that every Kyle Webster brush is included in Photoshop, you can get them for free (well, not free because you’re paying the Adobe CC subscription, but close enough). The hand shape contains just a noise field because I felt that the stark white was too much. I left the bandages completely white to give the image a little more punch. Not bad for a third attempt. -- source link
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