Earlier this month I saw this line art on Alvin Lee’s DA. At the time I thought how this would be good practice for me to color since I don’t often work with this style of art and it would require me to use techniques I don’t often use. Plus, I liked the idea of challenging myself to see if I could make it work.
Then I discovered that it was part of a contest through Capcom which meant that I was able to download the high res version of this. I did a little each day as a warm up and managed to finish it last night. So, I actually had time to submit it to the contest. Doubt it’ll get anywhere but I’m happy with what I did here.
The challenge with this type of “collage” composition is to make it so that its not visually confusing. With the set of characters on the top I was able to do the sort of thing I would do as if it was just a normal scene and have the characters in the background recede. However the bottom characters aren’t laid out with that same sort of logic so that was more challenging. I thought I had remedied that but now that I see it again this morning I wonder if its still a bit visually confusing.