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The Making of "Double Trouble"
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| Note: This page shows the making of a spanking drawing by Spankart. It was originally published in September 2002 on the website A Spanking New Art Genre and is reproduced here unchanged. |
The idea of this drawing was to get a little away from the usual spanking pics. So I decided to draw two kids in corner time, a boy and a girl, and their mom.
The first challenge in doing this drawing was that I needed to draw a full view of two corners, not just one. This 'forced me' to place the main characters, the kids, to the left and right margins of the picture. I felt this was a weakness (it reminded me of a 'split' in bowling), but looking at the final pic, I now think it is not as unaesthetic as I initially thought.
The sketch below shows the rough concept I came up with. A simple one-point perspective with one wall faced straight on. Vanishing point at the eye level of an adult. All characters are seen in three quarter view from behind. 'Mom' figure's body is turned towards the girl, but her head is looking at the boy (to her left). It's post-spanking corner time (pants down) for him. But not for his sister - she's unspanked - so far, but who knows, she might be next... Well, so much for the story!
Drawing tips: no need to flesh in the figures for a first sketch like this one. A bubble for the head and two bubbles for the torso will do, small bubbles for the hands and feet, and primitive lines for the arms and legs.
I disliked the too strong symmetry of the composition, so I moved the vanishing point to the left of the wall's center. The wall itself was drawn wider to give the room more space. You can see the vanishing point well in the next scan. I started the drawing with the empty room so I could visualize where to place the characters in relation to the room's walls.
Drawing tips: a) don't use a ruler. b) draw as light as you can in the beginning. Remember these are not supposed to be final lines, and drawing lightly makes them so much easier to erase in the steps to come. You may also decide to add new objects to the drawings that hide parts of your 'good' lines, so you'll need to erase them even if they are correct.
Next, I roughed the figures in. For better (asymmetrical) balance, I put the mother figure just right of the center of the drawing. She's about 6 heads tall, the kids 5 heads. Mom's eye level is on the horizon line (the same level as the vanishing point), so the kid's eye levels must be below that line. How far? Hmmm... right! About one head below.
Drawing tips: First draw the feet where they should touch the floor, then draw the head, then the rest of the figure in between. The hips are about halfway from the top of the head to the floor. Draw joint circles for the elbows, knees, and shoulders.
Something was still not right... too much empty space between the boy and the mom... suddenly I had the idea to change the pose of mom's left arm. She could be pointing to him... the 'arrow' principle. I tried it and liked the change (see below). I can't say why, but I think it improved the composition and the visual impact of the pic.
Next step: fleshing in the figures. Relatively easy for the big figure in the foreground, but a bit difficult for the kid figures as they are so small in this drawing. (Hard to erase wrong lines!)
Drawing tips: see my other mini-tutorials. Lower legs are a little curved like "( )".
Next step: hair and clothing. I decided for pulled-down pants and briefs for the boy, and a t-shirt (easy to draw). The girl got a short dress and shoes/socks/whatever. The mom was given short, curly hair and a simple, long dress. A lot to do for my eraser! ;-)
The wall was too empty so I added a door.
Drawing tips: the inside of the boy's pants is in shadow. T-shirt sleeves hang down because of gravity (see detail pic below.) Mom's right hand has the thumb pointing to the back, and the fingers pointing to the front.
I added more furniture, but in retrospective I think it's too much. It's the old 'horror vacui' problem - I'm always tempted to fill empty spaces with something. And I can see the chair looks wrong - that's awful because there is a lot of focus on it. I thought about drawing another chair in the foreground (it could have just been used by 'mom' for the spanking), but I wanted to get this pic finished, and I was already frustrated with how the other chair turned out - so I left it.
Here is a detail of the pic's center. Actually everything important is in it. Hmmm. I decided to clip the original a lot, though not as much as in this detail pic.
Tip: finding the right clipping frame can improve any drawing. Don't hesitate to clip away anything if it makes the overall appearance of the picture nicer.
The final touch: sepia colorization in Photoshop. Two layers, blending mode "multiply", adding/changing the colors with the Paintbucket, Airbrush, Burn, Dodge and other tools.
Tip: a common mistake is to paint the skin too light. Clothing (not only white one), can often be lighter than the skin. The floor (and the ceiling, too) are usually darker than the walls. Two walls that meet in a corner will have two different shades. I added a kind of 'lighting effect' with the Dodge tool to the wall behind the lamp.
