I wanted to show the process on how a illustration comes to life. The piece below is what the direction that the art director wanted to go. It was intended for a comic cruise during Comicon. Its a dark piece but it turned out to be a great piece.
The illustration below is my first go at it with colors. I lightly laid it out and I intentionally did not built up. I wanted to show the art director its potential, object placement. Its a light piece, this is what I would imagine a boat cruise to look like.
This is the sketch, I tried to get it as tight as I could. I do not like sending rough sketches to art directors, it lowers the back and forth changes.
I like to give as much variations to directors as I can. I like to attack angles, placement and size variations. The more the better especially since its pencil and it doesn't take long to redo.
Overall this was a great assignment. Its awesome how we all meet really great and cool people in our journey. The art director is a cool guy but now I even consider him a friend.
