Development on Poster

So i have started working in the most time consuming way,  for some reason over the last few months i have really started to enjoy building up a image with dots,  tiny dots. This is something i never thought i would be able to sit and do as i cant sit still for 5 mins at any one time, but with this method i seem to relish the mental task i set myself while tacking my drawing this way. I tell myself i must finish a certain section on the drawing before i can stop for a break.

I start out by drawing a quick sketch/ outline of the animal then using the dots and a image for reference i just start building up the image. I try to pen in the full black areas first then working out from the thinning out the amount of dots used to give a colour gradient.

This is one of the first drawings i did using watercolour paint and fine liner. As the scales on the body is a idea for the background i thought i would just focus on the head for the main illustration.

Here i have added a background that is a open stretch of water and i added the fins head over the top in photshop using layers. I like the image but i just cant see it been used on a gig poster for a metal show. 

So using tracing paper and isograph pens i traced my image and built up the shadowed areas using dots. I could then scan it in to photoshop and just by altering the levels have a black and white image i could use. 

feathers i found on my walks and drawn for ideas for background imaegs i could patten. 

Drawing different skulls from different creatures of the wild, i very much enjoyed this and will definitely be drawing more of these and practice until i can use them on moore designs and logos. 

Just hanging around.