Saturday 20 January 2024

The Making of The 20th Century Fox

 You may have seen my final artwork on this. The images below show you how it was created from concept thumbnail to pencil drawing (19 January 2024 evening) to ink trace on tracing paper,scan into Adobe Photoshop and colouring via various layers on 20 January 2024 afternoon.

A Google Image of the actual 20th Century Fox logo was used as reference as can be seen from some of the screenshots.

Concept thumbnail

Pencil drawing. 3B on white paper.

Trace over with brown felt tip pen 0.5mm


Checking the tracing by inserting a white sheet below.

Scan into Photoshop.

Adjusting brightness and contrast settings.

Black colour fill.

Fox body fill.




Fox costume fill.

Background fill.

Colouring other elements.


Adding shade for a 3D effect.


Colouring the sky. Airbrush tool on a new layer

Adding clouds on new layer.

Shading his shades on new layer.

Adjusting opacity of the shades.

Adding the searchlights on new layer using white fill.

Adjusting the opacity to created the searchlight effect.


Done. So I thought. Oops forgot to light his cigarette!

Done. Final artwork. Saved in JPEG format


The 20th Century Fox

 



For over 80 years, 20th Century was one of the major American film studios. It was formed in 1935 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation by the merger of Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures,

It is presently owned by Disney.

The opening logo with the drum roll and fanfare has graced many hit moves like, Planet of the Apes,Star Wars and Titanic.

TV shows produced by the studio include M*A*S*H, Batman, Green Hornet and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Fall Guy etc.

As a kid growing up and watching these movies and TV shows, I loved the opening logo as much as the actual entertainment . The name always intrigued me. This artwork is a tribute to that studio with Mr. Fox dressed in the style of the movie producers of the 1970s.




Sunday 14 January 2024

Pongal Greeting card


 This year a mixture of hand drawn and coloured by hand on tracing paper, scanned into and enhanced on Adobe Photoshop.