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Justin Coro Kaufman

Dug a little deeper into the high key overexposed painting thing again this week. I’ve been wanting to do a portrait of  Kevin, our other mastiff for a little while now. He’s such a sweet old boy. Had it in my head to do like a “night lighting” portrait of him. He’s blind, and his eyes have that cloudy look to them that i think could look cool in that lighting scenario. But then a…

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“The Banshee” Drawing Process Video


Justin Gerard

July 9, 2024 - [embed]https://youtu.be/GWV325dO-a4[/embed] Today, I have a livestream I did for drawing 'The Banshee" for FANSTRATICS as well as some conceptual work! As with most of these characters for this series, it begins with several sketch idea for poses and designs, scribbled in ink in my sketchbook. The notes I was from the art director asked for options for both a normal-looking figure in the middle of a harrowing scream, along with exploring of the idea of the screaming head being detached. I tried several options for trying to visually simulate the screaming effect, concentric lines, swirling chains, and garments being whipped around. I tried to move the poses around a lot as I did this, as it is easy to get locked into just one pose when making these little sketches. I initially drew them as…

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