I love this watercolor tutorial using a scene from Mad Max: Fury Road as the subject. Well-known artist/illustrator Scott C. (Scott Campbell) shows you how he uses reference shots from the film, does some preliminary sketches, composites the scene based on those sketches, and then, casually step-by-step, how he went about painting up the final piece.
It’s kind of refreshing how this is not a completely rote set of instructions. It’s conversational and Scott’s not afraid to admit his mistakes and say when he doesn’t know why he’s doing something.
I’ve only dabbled in watercolors, but I’m tempted to try this. It would certainly be fun to spend some time studying those war rigs and trying to render them.
“First thing to do was gather what images of the film I could find and take screenshots from the movie trailers.”
“I scanned all these little sketches into the computer, cut them up, and moved them around in Photoshop to make a sweet little composition.”
“I started laying in all the big washes of colors first, just so i could feel like i accomplished something early on.”
“See all the skin painted in? Why do i do that first? i do not know.”
“The speakers. Here they go. Janky circles all over the place.”
“All the basic color washes are laid in very lightly. I can step back and check it out happily.”
“The one stressful part of the linework stage is the likeness on the faces. I am always a little stressed that they will work.”
“I liked painting these pole lines for some reason. Long relaxing janky lines.”
“Red pajamas on the guitar player! Aw, so nice. I know some of you are bummed that i flipped the guitar player. He doesn’t play left handed as i portray him.”
“Oh, the War Rig is looking better i think. Getting some of those darks in there.”
“These guys are just so excited to be there. At this point, i signed my name in the corner. It is my little reward.”
“And there it is all done!”
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