In the article “Demonic world with Ghost” Eric fortune shows the process towards his ending piece. From light sketching to then using his references and reasearch to make his piece come to live. In his process he mentions the importance of playing around with colors like he did with his scratch paper, that way he can keep track of the consistency of all colors.

Article “Demonic world with ghosts” by Eric Fortune describes the steps in the process of creating an illustration. The first stage is an idea and the creation of an initial picture. Then the author uses photos/references from the real scene to determine the positions of objects in the illustrations, light sources, colors, and textures. This helps him save time and not spoil the paper with unnecessary erasures. Then he starts painting the objects in the illustration. Photos also help him choose colors for some parts of the illustration. Here he writes about the technique that he uses to create a marble effect for the table and the color selection for the image of bruises on the hands of the girl.

In Yuko Shimizu’s blog post her role of reference was Google Maps. It was kind of surprising for me at first that someone used that as a referenced. It then took me a second to realize that was a pretty genius resource to use as a reference since you can look up pretty much anywhere in the world and explore it from all dimensions without leaving the comfort of your home. The stages that Yuko went through to develop her work were at first pretty straight forward and common for someone that just wants a general reference of an area. But she then realized that Google images gave her just that; a general reference. She then realized that Google Maps has street view so that she can explore streets virtually and get details that she could not with just photos. Even if she were to visit the locations in person there are certain angles and dimensions that she could not view. So using Google Maps as a virtual reference for scenery is a great idea.