Bonjour à tous !
Hi everyone!
Vous vous souvenez de Lok ? Eh bien voici ses petites soeurs, les 4 autres illustrations intérieures de Citara 2, Virginie dans les Flammes, de Nathalie Bagadey !
Bon, en vrai, il y en a deux supplémentaires : une qui n'est pas de moi, et une qui révèlerait trop de choses au lecteur pour être publiée ;) on restera donc pour une série de 5 illustrations.
Do you remember Lok? Well here are her little sisters, the 4 other interior illustrations of Citara 2, Virginie dans les Flammes, by Nathalie Bagadey !
Well, in reality, there are two more: one that is not mine, and one that would reveal too much to the reader to be published ;) so we will stay for a series of 5 illustrations.
Achille
Boga
Enu
Rochelaure
Histoire / Story
Enu est la première ville de Citara, l'équivalent de sa Capitale, où vit le seigneur Rochelaure et où se déroule une partie de l'histoire. Il s'agit d'une petite ville médiévale proprette, organisée autour d'une coline couronnée d'un olivier et de la Demeure des Importants.
Au premier plan, on peut voir Schnippy, l'écureuil glouton de l'héroïne ^^.
Enu is the first city of Citara, the equivalent of its Capital, where Lord Rochelaure lives and where part of the history takes place. It is a small, clean, medieval town, organized around a hill crowned with an olive tree and the Residence of the Importants.
In the foreground, we can see Schnippy, the gluttonous squirrel of the heroine. ^^.
Step by Step
Photos reférences
Sources diverses : fournies par Nathalie
Recherche / Research
Recherche de logo pour les 4 éléments. Je n'ai jamais été très douée en logos...
Logo search for the 4 elements. I've never been very good at logos...
Crayonné / Pencil sketch
Pour le crayonné, j'utilise cette fois un crayon rouge. Ces tracés pourront être supprimé via un filtre dans Photoshop.
Ceci m'évite deux choses :
- perdre du temps à gommer après l'encrage
- prendre le risque de chiffonner mon travail en gommant trop vite
For the pencil, I use a red pencil this time. These plots can be deleted via a filter in Photoshop.
This saves me two things:
- waste time erasing after inking
- take the risk of ruining my work by erasing it too quickly
Encrage / Inking
Photoshop, Final
Merci à Nathalie pour m'avoir permis de travailler sur un sujet aussi cool :D ! Je suis en plein dans la lecture du deuxième tome et je le trouve encore plus prenant que le tome 1, qui était déjà une très belle aventure. Hâte de connaître la suite ^^ (et de revenir illustrer le T3 ?).
Merci Steemiens de continuer à soutenir mon travail, j'ai hâte de vous dévoiler les autres visuels...
Thanks to Nathalie for letting me work on such a cool project :D! I am in the middle of reading the second volume and I find it even more addictive than Volume 1, which was already a very beautiful adventure. Hurry to know the rest ^^
Thank you Steemiens for continuing to support my work, I look forward to unveiling the other visuals...
à bientôt ^^ !
See you soon ^^ !
Oreille Pointue
Nathalie Bagadey, Une autre vie à Citara, tome 1 : Tempétueuse Sylvine : commander sur amazon
Nathalie Bagadey, Une autre vie à Citara, tome 2 : Virginie dans les Flammes : commander sur amazon
Really nice artwork, @oreille-pointue ! The process is really well explained and I love the research you included ! Beautiful work <3 The city of Citara really comes alive with your illustration, it brings great vision to the book, I'm sure :)
Congrats on curie, too <3
Thank you very much :)
What a beautiful pen drawing of a city named Citara. I really like that I could picture looking at this art in a story book about fantasy and adventure, where the band of heroes set eyes on this landscape for the first time.
Congratulations for your curie vote ^_^.
Thank you very much :)
I really loved this novel by Nathalie Bagadey, and when she asked me to illustrate her second volume, I was so amazed!
Bonjour! Je suis désolé, je parle un petit peu français :D
I just wanted to say that all the research you've done for this drawing is amazing and I simply love it <3 <3 <3
It has so many details and, as I am an admirer of medieval cities and fortresses, I find this drawing a delight! You've got yourself a new follower :)
Keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot !
I really like drawing details and this one was really nice to do.
See you soon ^^
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Thanks a lot!
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Thanks :D !
This is amazing, @orielle-pointue.
And even sketched out in red pencil. That I don't normally see, but the Photoshop filter does make that convenient, like the blue pencil I'm not remembering the name of. :)
There are awesome details, here, and a touch of character with the squirrel in the foreground looking down over the village. Just that alone adds to what is already an incredibly detailed and fun work of inked art.
I'm not even going to ask about color since this is illustration for a book, and because it looks great without it. Very whimsical and perfect for fantasy or some kind of medieval adventure!
Aside form using Photoshop for the final, you hand drew all of this. Do you know how long it took to do? I usually ask, just to see where artists here are at time-wise with their art.
Thank you very much for your comment :)
I use the red pencil because I don't know where I put my blue... they are from the PRISMACOLOR® COL-ERASE® family.
To answer your question, I spent about four hours on it. As this is a professional job, I counted exactly how much time I spent refining my rates.
For the characters Boga and Achilles (links to the other drawings are at the top of the article) I spend between two hours and two and a half hours, and I spent three hours on the dragon Lok.
What a beautiful city you painted. you are a champion. I liked all the details that you put on the great art that you have done with your hands. the mountains the houses, trees, roads, the entrance of the drawing I like with the squirrel and the board a lot of love.
Thank you very much!
This is a City with a really nice story, I had to represent as much of the universe as possible.
I love your drawing @oreille-pointue. I think it looks better than the reference drawing photo that you have :) The crispness and the sharpness of the pen accentuates the details of the town. Thank you for sharing with us the process too. It is inspiring and something I would love to try one day. And thank you too for the history :) Do you colour your drawings usually or you will leave it as a pen sketch?
Thank you very much for your comment!
It's never too late to try ;) the only advice I can give is to take your time. The design of houses, bricks, roofs and very repetitive. I split my work time by doing something else between two blocks, otherwise it was guaranteed tendonitis ^^'
Sometimes I do colorization, I usually use photoshop and I don't work as much on the inking (less textures and shading, since these will be done by colorization).
To give you an example, here is the colorization I did on the dragon Lok:
Thank you for the advice @oreille-pointue! I will take heed to take my time. Hehe I can imagine the tendonitis :D I love medieval ages towns too and cottages. I will browse for a building I like and give this a try. I couldn’t access the busy links to your inking and colored versions from Partiko. I will try later with my laptop. Have a nice Sunday @oreille-pointue :)
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I updated the links.
I use a traductor and it has modified the links... sorry.
Awesome drawing friend. I like in how the drawing is the towers and the great walls that protect the city if you are a teacher I hope that one day you paint the twin towers to see how you do it.
Thank you ^^
I prefer medieval atmospheres to modern megalopolises, but if that ever happens, I'll post it all on Steemit, I promise!
@oreille-pointue, i didn't know there were red pencils :) Glad that came across your post and found out. I always admire artist who can translate something in real life into an art. And your work was so detail, how big is this drawing, by looking at the detail you draw, your eye sight must be very sharp if it only a small drawing.
Thank you very much!
The drawing was made in A4 format, and it's true that I have a very good near vision (I'm short-sighted), I love to put details in detail and my limit is only the diameter of the tip of my pen (0.05).
The red pencil is from the PRISMACOLOR® COL-ERASE® family. It also exists in blue and it doesn't change much, since Photoshop has a filter for red, blue or green.
Hi @oreille-pointue, i think short-sighted is much more better than long-sighted with this detail worked :P I have long-sighted and it very challenge for me to complete little details stuff.
This must've taken you a lot of time researching, sketching and inking the whole thing. The tiny details look like they can test the illustrator's patience to render. Good work on handling the perspective and lighting on the piece :D
Thank you very much :)
The total time (research + pencil + inking + retouching) lasted 4 hours.
I could have spent a lot more time there but I tried to be as efficient as possible to keep the price reasonable for my client.
I can only imagine the time pressure doing it. I have the same troubles when wanting to make art and shifting between other priorities. Congratulations for the curie and it's well deserved.
It is a picturesque medieval town that you have there. Very well prepared and planned. I must say, too, that I appreciate the fact that you translated the publication for those of us who do not speak in your native language. Great job, Upvote!
Thank you very much for your comment.
And yes, I am well aware that there are more Anglophones than Francophones. As art is universal, I find it a shame to close the door to all Anglophones in Steemit.
On the other hand, when I publish my report with literature and in particular on exclusively French-speaking authors or works, I do not translate... I assume that if the reader cannot follow the post, he is probably not interested by its content ^^ !
Oh, French, a great language, one of the most studied languages in the world, is a language with a very important historical and literary tradition and important for Western culture.
Wow! So much love and effort went into this piece! And not only this.. but the time that you invested! I like the references that you used and that you've done some research too! It makes me think about science :) And your artwork looks like a science! Even your sketch is already nearly perfect :)
The castle sitting on the top of the hill is so pretty. I can imagine a knight living there, overlooking all his people. The castle walls are thick so that the town can't be beaten. The land around it is very nice - trees, bushes and mountains. These are very present but they don't take attention away from the masterpiece which is the castle.
And look at that fellow squirrel! I'm sure it is on the way to the castle. At the moment it thinks: WOW! This is the place to be! :)
Thank you for sharing! It is amazing and I'm very happy for your curie vote. Authors like you deserve this attention :)
Thank you very much for your comment!
Indeed, I have a rather scientific approach. I try to analyse the why and how of the how, to think about how things work from a geological and societal point of view, in order to produce a drawing that is coherent with the universe.
It is never perfect, and I often can't transcribe all the details (type of stone used for walls, for example) but I keep them in mind when drawing.
What a beautiful medieval map, I was always struck by medieval illustrations and maps, were not very accurate in terms of cartography and certainly the use of airplanes completely change the figure of the maps of antiquity.
I like this being of a story because you notice the study of referential photographs of similar planes that you have done, step by step I liked it because you have given some fabulous details.
I can imagine the life inside him, the blacksmith, the artists, the soldiers. the same life that they had in that time.
You have moved me into the village, better proof that your illustration calls to challenge the imagination, follow the path and enter through its doors.
you saved yourself a great erasure thanks to photoshop I had chosen to use that tool.
thank you for sharing this great illustration, peace and love.
Thank you very much :)
Wow. this is crazy. It immediately reminded me of Konoha from Naruto haha :D Do you know what I mean or not at all. It's cuz of those mountains in the back I guess.
Hmm..I've seen already some pics which quiteoften do the sketch with the pink/red color. You sad you can erase it then in the photoshop. But I mean..You can erase also other color right? So why you guys always go with this particular red? Are they cheap in the artist shops hahaha? :D
Anyway, absolutely glorious work this is :)
Thank you ^^
I've never red Naruto, sorry...
And why red ? I had a blue too, but and I can't remember where I put it. Anyway, its color was darker than the red one and I had some grey shadows after aplying the filter, so maybe that's why artists use the red.
In Toshop you have trhee type of filters : Red, Blue or Green. You can't do it with an other color.
The universe you conceive of Citara I like quite a lot.
Your work is incredible and it's great that it has a story and that you keep it alive with your strokes.
So nice that you have taken interesting references.
Congratulations, I send you good vibes.
Wow are too many details .. simply PERFECT .. see the process you did to achieve that spectacular final result was AMAZING, I could not stop looking at every detail is inspiring .. A big hug @oreille-pointue
Thank you very much :) !
Superbe travail qui a surement du vous prendre un temps assez conséquent pour le réaliser ! Upvoté à 100% !
Merci ^^
4h top chrono dessus, sinon cela devenait hors budget pour ma commanditaire. Mais c'est clair que je pourrais y passer davantage de temps pour peaufiner encore les détails.