Background Design Process: The Comedy Club

This is another post focusing on my professional work at CrowdStar. I'm going to take you through my background design process.

First I started with a small marker sketch using iPad proportions (below). I also blocked in some values with a gray marker. Simply planning ahead will make my Photoshop job easier.

Scan it. Open it in Photoshop. And starting painting in a layer right on top. Watch the nifty 2 minute screen recording below! 

 

Check out the rough painting below. 

And the final vector illustration (below). This is what it would look like in the game with the HUD and the Funny Fish and some props.

Emily's Last Day

Lately, I've been developing my caricatures through acting and situations. Exaggerating them so that they almost become "Character Designs". Not just people that I know. My goal is to bring them to life through animation. I think only then can I call myself a Character Designer.

At any rate, this was a little gift to our former office manager at CrowdStar, obviously poking fun at her reticence.

Birthday Cards

When an artist at CrowdStar has a birthday, everybody contributes a sketch and we put them together in the form of an Art Card. Over the years, I've created around 40 sketches for my colleagues. Here are some of my favorites.

CrowdStar Dudes at the Office

I used to draw these guys that sat across from me.

The CrowdStar Office Space

Quick digital sketch of the office space from my old desk at work.

CrowdStar Dudes

These are a bunch of dudes in the cubicles I used to face at work. They didn't know they were being drawn. Do you work at CrowdStar? Do you recognize any of these dudes?