Who says you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover? When the series is SLASH & BURN, the cover art is by the remarkable Tula Lotay and her process involves multiple steps that include everything from watercolor to photography, we’re not sure we agree. With SLASH & BURN #3 in stores today, we asked Lotay if she’d mind taking us through her process, step-by-step. You can see each of her stages in the gallery below, along with some commentary by the artist.
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Thumbnail sketch -
Line art -
Duplicate and double up on line art with a warm colour to bring the line out, add texture background as base colour -
Start colour flats, basic colours -
Add colour detail -
Tidy up background colour flats, lay colour detail over the top to build up the image -
Overlay watercolour texture to start building up the final image -
A watercolour scan which will be layered over the final image in 'Overlay' in Photoshop -
How the watercolour texture looks before toning it down in layer opacity -
Another watercolour scan to be overlayed using 'hard light' in the layer settings to bring out the detail and texture -
Photograph of the sun which is layered over the final image in 'Overlay' in Photoshop to highlight the centre of the image and darken the corners -
Bringing it all together -
Final image
SLASH & BURN #3 is now available in print and as a digital download.
