OBJECTIVES: Create and draw a Cyberpunk world

CREATE AND DRAW a concept of:

• WORLD Cyberpunk

• CHARACTERS: alien - human - robots - animals

• Cyberpunk style OUTFIT: global warming: sexy androgynous

• BLUE NEONS (cold)

• GRUNGE aspect

INFORM / Reflect / Take notes

Wikipedia: "Cyberpunk (association of the words CYBERNETIQUE and PUNK) is a genre of SCIENCE-FICTION very related to dystopia and hard science fiction. It often features a near FUTURE, with a technologically advanced society (notably for INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES and CYBERNETICS). "

 

My Cyberpunk WORLD:

• overcrowded cities

• technology

• Cyber surveillance: camera drones

• Mega-corporation with logo and pub everywhere illuminati or eye

• Airship flying balloon

• neon: almost perfect white or totally white screens = contrast with the outside environment, which must therefore be dark: it is NIGHT (which increases the gloomy aspect) - Halo

• global warming: vapor mist

• waste

 

My Cyberpunk CHARACTERS: a woman and a man (or similar)

# WOMAN GRUNGE

• virtual reality headset / glasses

• sexy

• MASCOT animal cat

• connected: watch + antennas (ears)

• Virtual hologram screen (± weapon or not ???)

• Iroquois punk (hairstyle)

• grunge clothing

• flashy colors

• barefoot

• trad or cybernetic tattoo

• wood piercing (ear)

• hair and ROSE lips

• old sandwich or flying sushi bar

• mix of species: monkey tail

# TRANSHUMANIST "wicked" TECHNOID MAN

• shiny plastic clothes in black gray and techno red colors

• bladed weapon (baton) or bullet

• bionic

• body deformation (4 arms + monkey tail to gain stability in the air)

• multiple eyes

SKETCH: characters on a background + a story

NB: 1 blue layer for the sketch of the characters + 1 layer for the decor

• Warm up keeping in mind the "specifications"

• Let go and have fun

• draw the foregrounds, what is in front, near us and THEN what is further

• integrate the decor on a layer below

Main character: I use a Body chan / kun figurine that I take a picture of above my screen to be able to integrate it as best as possible into the decor

The movement / composition curves both give the movement of the characters, but also help guide the eye towards the main character

INKING: from closer to farther

First ink the foregrounds and main characters, with a fairly wide line

Then ink the decoration and the elements that are far away with a thinner line, to give depth of field and help the readability of the whole

COLOR: hot on cold!

It's a concept that still works wonderfully:

• PINK characters: a warm AND saturated shade appears close, catches the eye

• warm BLUE cybernetic characters

• a dark BLUE background: a cold and desaturated shade appears far and more discreet

 

TIPS:

• use a layer for each type (pink, light blue, dark blue)

• define the "inking" lines layer as "reference" layer

• go to the pink layer (use black, on this pink color layer) and paint by protruding outside the characters

• with the paint bucket set to transparent, erase where you left off, after setting the paint bucket in reference to the inking layer, and adjusting the close point

For screens, neons and others:

• add a layer in "screen" mode and paint with the realistic pencil or rough watercolor paint or Oil paint (etc) but with both a fairly large tool size, without pressing too much and with a density of 50 %: you can thus have areas that are lighter and others darker, in the same screen or for screens near you (light ++) yes far (darker)

• then add light halo bands around the screen with the aerosol tool.

• adjust the transparency or blending mode of the layer and increase or decrease the clarity of each screen according to its position and the desired effect in the overall illustration

• add a "color" layer over the pink. Clip it. Add color. This tip allows not to exceed on the dark blue layer

• add a layer "Highlighting" (screen mode) and "Shadows" (product mode) above the color layer and add lightings and shadows. Always ask yourself where the light comes from! (here multiple source)

I finally use the color green to distinguish the flyers: it is complementary on the color wheel with blue and pink

I use in product mode 2 to 3 layers above all

• a yellow "vintage" layer to unify the colors with a transparency of 10 to 30%

• a "texture" layer = an image of paper, canvas, wallpaper etc. generally a little yellow. Adjust the transparency so that you don't lose too much brightness, but still see the texture and the color / brightness nuances

• a "Brightness / contrast" correction layer to make up for the loss of brightness and make everything more homogeneous

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Thank you for your support ;)

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