Working with SAI

After, once again establishing what my audience wanted in terms of a video game cover, I began work in Paint tool SAI. This was much the same process as my poster's progression. 

I began by creating a new layer and sketching out in blue, (using the pencil tool) the design on my flat plan. I sized the page to the size I would need for a DVD cover and split it in half so that I knew where I was working. 

After this had been done, I created yet another layer, this time enlarging the size I was drawing in, and using Pen, for smoother lines. I outlined what I had drawn in neat and then hid the sketch layer.

Next I started colouring, to keep my style relatively similar to that of my poster, I used the marker for colouring, this meant that I could work with the pressure on my tablet pen, to lighten and darken area's of colour, making it very similar to colouring on paper. I created a new layer for every new colour and section. 

Once Zed900 had been coloured, I began work on the background, this needed to be somewhat built up in order to make my box art interesting, so I worked with shading in the background to add some depth to my picture. 

I used the water tool on large to colour in the background a dark blue, using the water tool is more effective due to the fact it does not use harsh lines (As the flood fill bucket tool would) and it is very easy to just rub out bits that have gone over the lineart.

I used the rotate canvas tool to allow me to colour the house in an effective way (so I could colour it horizontally) 

The final thing I had to do then, was to draw out and colour the foilage in the bottom left hand corner of the page, this was once again done with the marker and I feel overall, my final DVD box art looks very effective.