Sorry about the typos, most of the time my mind moves quicker from thought to thought than my fingers can type. I'm sure I'm the only one that ever happens to.

Move Along Pilgram...

Here is the final art. Touched up and added a few this via photoshop. I added a simple light blue gradient for the delineation of sky. I also the text "the Duke" to his badge but it's not like he needs a label. It's John Wayne for crying out loud! Hope you enjoy. I would love to get some comments either here or at bryanfinch@hotmail.com.

John Wayne Caricature Work In Progress Photos

Here is the final art before I scanned it. I added the line work to strengthen the cartoony aspect of the piece. I used a black out line for the figure to help bring him forward and a red/brown line for the background. I pretty much painted the sky back to solid white so I could add a simple indication of sky in photoshop.

More paint and colored pencils, really starting to focus in more of the final details.

John Wayne Caricature Work In Progress Photos

Here I'm just adding more detail with colored pencils. The desert background started to come into focus at this time.

Here I started using colored pencils and acrylic paint applied a little more opaquely to move the image along. Notice I reversed the value of his vest and his shirt. I decided I wanted the vest and hat to end up being about the same color and the shirt had to be a classic red one. I also eliminated about 2 inches of the sky making the composition more squat. Not doing the sunset just made that area dead space.

At this time, I was just make more changes and adjustments. I changed my mind on the sunset type sky and decided to go with day time setting. This helped with the overall value range in the composition.

I then used more acrylic washes to establish values. At this point, I kept it mostly monochromatic to help visual the value placement.

Here is the first step to my John Wayne piece. After I transfered the drawing to a piece of illustration board, I applied a warm wash of orange.