“What is Creative Mondays?
Monday’s are always a drag. The start of a new week, you have to go back to that routine of going to bed early/get up early. If (like me) you have to commute then you prepare for that long journey into work and that long journey back for the first time after a nice two day break.
So to kick off those lousy Mondays, I’m going to get my creative mind flowing in a positive way. Creative Mondays. A chance for me to show off something unfinished or finished that I’ve been working on throughout the previous week.”
It’s not difficult to tell what the inspiration for this week’s Creative Mondays is. Just last week I finally got to see ParaNorman and I thought it was fantastic. It’s great to see the stop-motion animation style still competing alongside it’s CGI counterparts and ParaNorman is a brilliant example of stop-motion done successfully. All the characters are beautifully animated with so much attention to detail going into each.
Needless to say I was inspired and I wanted to see if I could recreate the lead character in Photoshop. I basically built him up from layers starting with a basic character outline. Once I was happy with the general shape then I fleshed him out with light/dark tones and added some texture for his clothes. There’s certainly more I can do with this image (particularly the background scenery) and it might be fun to try and create my own characters using this style.