The making of the 100% watercolor and ink illustration I did for the second book of my graphic novel "Devlok, the Techno-Templar".
Just as a reminder, the story takes place in the "Hyperhedron". A world designed by artificial intelligences where a biotope of nano-carbon based creatures and virtual beings flourishes, while casts of neo-humans like the Techno-Templars have vowed to protect data at all costs. Machines are nonetheless on the lookout for the least of their weaknesses as bio-life is considered a virus ...
The original artwork's size is 24x36cm (9,4 x 14,1 in). It is painted on Arches paper 300g. (Hot pressed). The sheet is tensed on a wood board with kraft paper, then cut out when finished. This ensures it to not warp.
Penciling; gross shapes, compass for the circles.
I am missing the pictures of the inking process. But I usually refine the penciled shapes and try to keep it very light, I can then erase the smudgy pencil remains to have a clearer view and start to add more details.
In this illustration, I started with Devlok's jacket, pure crimson red varying to magenta. Then oranges mixed with various ochres for the rusted circling structure. And blueish, greenishes for the concrete and metal. Shoes are with grey (so diluted black).
And the background. Sometimes I do it before, usually for instance with cosmic scenes but in this one it came as last. Reason is here that there's some fog that is covering the mast where Devlok sits. Note also that for the back of the book, I did another painting with similar background alone, without the figure.
Last steps are various black ballpoint pens and thinliners for the outlines. And additional whites; gouache, acrylic and white thinliners.
Here's the definitive version. Scanned and with very lightly enhanced colours for prepress.
Details.
The books.
Soft cover A4 format (8,2 x 11,8 in).
54 pages of high quality 200g. paper. Cover 250g.
It comprises chapters 3 and 4 from "Devlok" (34 pages + art in full page) + "Procreator", an 8 pages, B&W, short explicit cyber-erotico novel + "A breakcore saga", a 4 pages short novel about a specific and rather obscure electronic music genre called "Breakcore" (Which is in my opinion, the actual most cyberpunk musical genre ever).
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