I have now drawn my focal point which is Kouro holding
tampopo and that's it's dead center,
but you want to add other elements to make it really
interesting and to also make sure that your characters,
I mean, illustration you're doing has a lot of life to it.
So, you want to have elements that flow and ebb.
So for example, her wings.
I want to have them length,
I'm going to have feathers coming off of them.
So, it shows movement.
Whenever you're doing a drawing like this,
you want to show that there is flow and then there is some movement to your characters.
Because it sort of brings your illustration to life,
and I want him to be a pillar.
The elements of his designed are not going to flow because he represents
strength and I want him to be very still in this particular instance.
But I want the things around him to be chaotic.
So now, that we've got Tampopo's feathers flying off.
Her hair too, I want it to flow down.
You know when you're drawing,
this sketch just draw on top,
erase, do what you like.
There's nothing wrong with giving up on the one drawing and then moving on to the next.
As you can see from my previous drawing,
this is what I did.
I started to eliminate
some of the elements that I wanted to get to the one that I'm actually doing right now.
So, there's going to be smoke rising
because I want to show battle and so they'll be smoke.
Then in the background,
I'm going to have the mask of read depth
shadowing them and I might even have it coming in the front here.
These elements are going to be faded when I color them
because I don't want them to detract from Kouro and Tampopo,
but I do want them there.
I want them present so that it fills the space and draws the eye in and you feel like
they're fighting for their lives.
So, this is the sketch that I am going to do,
and you are welcome to do add in different elements that you like,
but that is that's the sketch portion.
As you can see from this previous concepts,
it was like, "Should he just have his mask on,
should Tampo will be passed out?"
So, I've already eliminated what I don't want to see,
and to get to that point, right there.
So now, we can move on to the next step.