This is a funny little family I created fore a Swedish shopping mall (Tøcksfors).
It’s printed A3 size cover art.
I’ve had these sketches lying around fore a long time of characters with broomstick heads.
So this was an opportunity to try them out. The figures ended up more realistic but the strange heads still work in a weird way…
I sketch and ink on paper, scan and clean up the inked lines in Photoshop. Then I turn the lines into vectors in Illustrator (streamline).
This cleans up and gives the lines much more smooth edges. Save it as ai. format and then open it again in Photoshop.
This gives me a Photoshop document with only the black lines nothing else. So finally there is colouring on the layers I create under and over the lines.