Combi page explained

CP
0004 5-20-2014
In the menu, we brought back what we think was a fun section: the Combination Page. COCO explains:

 

"In the old days, a whole page was always fully sketched out and then rendered, so the finished piece was the same as the penciled version: same format, same situation, same figures etc. But for the last, say, ten years this has dramatically changed. Although I still do full blown pages from time to time, more often, I draw and work out the background and the respective figures separately, composing the finished piece as a final phase.

This has a lot of advantages:
when you screw up one element, you don't have to do away with the whole page, and, more importantly, you can figure out your strongest composition!
For instance, for the cover of Sensitive Spots #3, I first penciled out a background, and then the figures:

Space station 2 s Cover 3 sketch s

After that, I rendered the back ground, gave it its OWN back ground,

3 bg a2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then I rendered the figures and started to play around to see, which size they should be, for the strongest effect:

S3 bf S3 a

 

All this led to the idea that it might be fun to use figures from earlier drawings, and combine them in new situations, sometimes for fun, sometimes to enforce their effect.
And thus, the Combi Page was born!"

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