Flying Menace

Look deeply into my eye, now take me to your leader

Another day another monster. I love that eye, it’s awesome. I can imagine the puny humans cowering in front of it. Inspired by this sketch

A floating blue monster

Illustration by Matthew Gilbert

Below is an illustration of the progression from Illustrator linework through basic colour to final shaded Photoshop goodness. Creating everything on layers makes the process very flexible. Of course it also makes it open to endless tweaking…

The drawing process

Illustrations by Matthew Gilbert

First published on the 11th February 2007 | Permanent Link
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