Ninja July 28th, 2007
I’ve been going in a different direction with my latest blots. After hanging around my compy for so long, I just wanted a nice breather. I’m enjoying my late nite, erm, early morning inking.
I printed out 4 copies of the supplied blot (just in case I messed up).
The first one became the right eye.
The second became the left eye. This one was tricky because it would eventually need to get flipped horizontally, so I had to ink the reverse image of the eye.
Ah, then those crazy lips. Penguin’s always teasing me because I draw women with really full lips. I’m very happy with the way they came out. That bleeding, marbled bit in the lower lip is great—what a happy accident!
I goofed on the nose. At first I was going to rotate the blot 90 degrees clockwise and transform the main curve into the hanging tip at the end of the nose. But I didn’t like it (+ not wanting to waste paper), so I turned the longest curvey bit into the nose.
Then I scanned in the separate parts + pasted them into one document in Photoshop.
Using the polygonal lasso, I chopped off the lower bit under the right eye. It was kind of distracting.
Then I flipped the left eye (Edit > Transform > Flip horizontal) + removed the stray bit using the same method as the right eye.
Now for the fun part. The Liqufy filter! Go to the Filter drop down menu and choose “Liquify.” I left the settings as they were and just adjusted the brush size as needed. The left eye isn’t in proper perspective, so I pushed + schooted in the parts to make it look right.
More of the same. Adjusting the lid because it’s too high up.
Ah, so I messed up. The reflection in the pupil of the left eye doesn’t match the one in the right. So I used the circle marque, selected the reflection from the right eye, hit (apple + j) to duplicate it onto another layer. Moved this dupped piece over the left eye, scaled it down (Edit > Transform > Scale), merged the layers down (apple + e), + then used the clone tool to fill in the missing bits.
And there it is.
Now for that ugly nose. Still using the polygonal lasso, I selected the part that I wanted for the nose + deleted the rest.
After scaling it to the proper proportion, here it is.
The lips were a lil’ off. The left part next to the cupid’s bow (aka the snot duct) was too high. So I used the Liquify filter to push it down a bit.
By now, I was thinking of Audrey Hepburn + Funny Face. Not my fave Audrey flick, but still, she’s GOOD! I absolutely <3 Audrey! I felt that this piece could benefit from some texture. I tore out a page from Travel + Leisure magazine + wrote out a line from the opening credit song. It’s funny because I forgot how to write cursive. Total brain fart. I’m so used to printing or typing, that I had to stop + think of how the letterforms went.
I scanned + pasted this into my working Photoshop document. I changed the blending mode to Multiply + this is what I ended up with.
Bah, that seemed too severe + the background type was fighting with the image. I then ghosted back the image by lowering the opacity to 50%.
I decided to ditch the type. Less is more. Here’s the final!
Happy inking,
Ninja =)
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