Pirate Crabs… AAarrrgghhh

I was recently asked over on Facebook how I came up with ideas, so here is my process on a current project. The assignment; come up with five underwater scenes for a game. The first thing I do is start sketching rough little ideas that pop into my head related to the subject.

The pirate crab looking through a telescope grabs my attention, so I head off in that direction. What can I add to that to create a scene? What sort of underwater props can I use? Well duh, a cannon, of course… and there would need to be a whole band of these crazy pirate crabs… and they have to be pillaging and terrorizing somebody (in a friendly way, of course)… and magically, somehow, the underwater pirate crab scene unfolds beneath my pencil.

I lay a fresh piece of paper over my blue pencil sketch and using a light table, I create a cleaner pencil drawing to work from.

3 Comments on “Pirate Crabs… AAarrrgghhh”

Michae
September 5, 2013

Absolutely LOVE your style Dennis! Have been a HUGE fan since I bought your “See With Me Bible” for my daughter years ago. Keep up the great work and posts!

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pancreasboy
September 5, 2013

What Michae said! But don’t you wish sometimes you didn’t have to trace so many times and that it could magically do it itself 🙂

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mark cotnam
September 6, 2013

Love seeing your creative process at work! So cool to see how the the sketches become a drawing become a painting. Thanks for this insight.

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