
That wicked Ojha, look what he's done!
The background to this image was done in traditional watercolour, with a few digital tweaks to pull it together. The original character sketch was done with a 2B pencil on 'real' archival paper. The final colour was then added to the character using the airbrush tool in Painter 9. The layers were then combined in Photoshop CS2, adding swish lines etc. Good thing too, with all of the editorial changes that are taking place on this assignment.
You can't beat the digital media for flexibility. In fact I bring the sketches into the background first before the final renderings on the character so that I can see how they flow in the entire piece.
The background here is the Quitab Minar, an historic site in New Delhi. Interesting that this piece was being painted while bombs were going off in the markets of Delhi...and the editor thought that the character was a bit too Moghul looking.
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