Mainly speed paintings and loose sketches (hence the sketchbook title) done mainly on the train,waiting in lines and even at home.

I’ll try to post some of the daily images i do more often here.

Couldn’t decide with or without outline

Went to this small exhibition about japanese toys in Museu do Oriente in Lisbon.

Learn more about it here (it’s in portuguese).

Lot’s of great inspiration, and fascinating things like the poetic card games Karuta i knew nothing about and the abstract, stylized quality of this cool toys.

]]> http://luiscavaco.com/omocha-japanese-toys/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/pt/ http://luiscavaco.com/leiriacon-2010-rpg-poster-making-of/ http://luiscavaco.com/leiriacon-2010-rpg-poster-making-of/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:28:43 +0000 Luis Cavaco http://luiscavaco.com/?p=98 This illustration was made for LeiriaCon 2010 first Roleplaying Meeting, organized and comissioned by my good friend João Mariano.

We started with the idea or tagline “You are the game” as food for the brainstorm.

After some rough sketches and ideas, the idea of several players becoming their characters around the game table started to mature.

From that idea came the first rough sketch to flesh out the composition in relation to the final poster design, to create an interesting silhouette for the overall composition and for each character.

After the overall shapes i started working in the secondary ones.

Time to start making it all more defined

Linework more or less final.

Then some revisions with João to make some points come across better.

Also fliped the image just to make sure everything was working, and i ended up liking it better, like this.

Setting the values, light sources, and underpainting.

Adding color, painting , defining shapes, shadows and highlights

The final painting, with some color tweaks.

After, i sent it to be applied by the designer to the poster.

And that’s it.

New image made for the LeiriaCon 2010 Rpg Meeting poster.

You can see more info about the event and the final poster here:
http://leiriacon.blogspot.com/

Will be posting a making of soon.