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Short Summary:

Taken from my sketch dump. Used a few apocalyptic pictures I found online for reference for background ideas. Outfits come from a dream I had because my dreams influence way more of my art than actual shows do. Takes place in a later timeline, when these two are like 15-17-ish. Used a photoshop texture for ground, plus transform tool and cutout filter. Various brushes for clouds and fogs. Took ages to color because of all that darn shiny stuff.

Long Description:

OK so this sketch from my sketch dump has been haunting me, and I thought I could make it a good Halloween-ish pic for October! The setting is from yet another dream of mine, because my mind doesn't like the thought of a story ending even if it hasn't yet. Don't remember much from it, save that it was about Candace and Perry getting sent to the future, where everything is practically destroyed and the remnants of humanity are fighting a guerrilla war against an oppressive robot force (run by someone I won't bother to mention yet). There was all kinds of weird stuff going on, it being a dream and all, but I remember thinking "Dang, Phineas and Ferb look cool in their post-apocalyptic get-ups." I tried to sketch their outfits in my sketchbook, and totally botched it. But at least I did it SOME justice; they still look cool. Didn't quite capture Ferb's sort of cyborgish appearance, but Phineas at least is pulling off some of his brown studded leather look. Don't think he had quite those bright colors in the dream, but I felt compelled to color-code.

The outline was done the same way I've been doing a lot of art lately; vector tracing and a lot of Mormon swearing (that means no swearing at all, but a lot of hard glares and frustrated muttering). I'm getting better and faster at vectors, but it still takes ages to outline a sketch, especially one as detail-oriented as this. Took ages to shade too, what with all that shiny metal. That uses more thought; I have several colors to shade with, and they don't quite go on the same way as fabric's shading/hightlighting does. And the background took time too, because I actually wanted this to look like it came from an apocalyptic future. So this took more time that I was expecting. But not for you, because I haven't been posting a lot lately, and even something done this slowly still came up really quickly, all things considered. But that's what you get for me being laid up again. More art!

And speaking of the background, I feel like I'm finally starting to take a pride in what they look like. At least, when I spend the time on them, they come off amazing and I feel really gooey about my art. So while it may take a lot more time, I've decided I like working on detailed backgrounds. Occasionally. If the picture is worthy of one.

But none of that tells you how I DID the background. Basically, I went online and found several good artworks done of these kinds of ruined-city-scape sort of scenery. I used some building outlines from some to get some practice going, by vector drawing colored shapes over them. The row of houses and the tree up front is entirely me though. I utilized a gradual darker shade for each row to depict depth, then used various cloud tools to get a really eerie mist to blanket between them for that "ruins rising from the mists" look. The ground, I used a rock pattern overlay that came with photoshop, then used the transform tool to get it to fade to the background. After that, a quick cutout filter gave it my own artstyle's look, and I must say it looks fantastic like that. Burn tool makes good shadows. The sky was done with a mix of weird gradients and many vectored layers, imitating vaguely one of the skies from a picture I was referencing. Then some purple and yellow clouds, and tada. Oh, and there's a 7% purple filter over the whole thing, to give it more of a muted, misty tone. Just like I did with 9 My Way , only that used a yellowish filter. Good way for me to tone down my usually saturated color pallet.

I was watching Futurama when I drew that tree, so every time I look at it I think of Bender singing folk songs and getting hit by a train. Augh I can't look at this pic and NOT see that now.

Phineas and Ferb copyrighted to the grand almighty Disney.

Description
Short Summary:

Taken from my sketch dump. Used a few apocalyptic pictures I found online for reference for background ideas. Outfits come from a dream I had because my dreams influence way more of my art than actual shows do. Takes place in a later timeline, when these two are like 15-17-ish. Used a photoshop texture for ground, plus transform tool and cutout filter. Various brushes for clouds and fogs. Took ages to color because of all that darn shiny stuff.

Long Description:

OK so this sketch from my sketch dump has been haunting me, and I thought I could make it a good Halloween-ish pic for October! The setting is from yet another dream of mine, because my mind doesn't like the thought of a story ending even if it hasn't yet. Don't remember much from it, save that it was about Candace and Perry getting sent to the future, where everything is practically destroyed and the remnants of humanity are fighting a guerrilla war against an oppressive robot force (run by someone I won't bother to mention yet). There was all kinds of weird stuff going on, it being a dream and all, but I remember thinking "Dang, Phineas and Ferb look cool in their post-apocalyptic get-ups." I tried to sketch their outfits in my sketchbook, and totally botched it. But at least I did it SOME justice; they still look cool. Didn't quite capture Ferb's sort of cyborgish appearance, but Phineas at least is pulling off some of his brown studded leather look. Don't think he had quite those bright colors in the dream, but I felt compelled to color-code.

The outline was done the same way I've been doing a lot of art lately; vector tracing and a lot of Mormon swearing (that means no swearing at all, but a lot of hard glares and frustrated muttering). I'm getting better and faster at vectors, but it still takes ages to outline a sketch, especially one as detail-oriented as this. Took ages to shade too, what with all that shiny metal. That uses more thought; I have several colors to shade with, and they don't quite go on the same way as fabric's shading/hightlighting does. And the background took time too, because I actually wanted this to look like it came from an apocalyptic future. So this took more time that I was expecting. But not for you, because I haven't been posting a lot lately, and even something done this slowly still came up really quickly, all things considered. But that's what you get for me being laid up again. More art!

And speaking of the background, I feel like I'm finally starting to take a pride in what they look like. At least, when I spend the time on them, they come off amazing and I feel really gooey about my art. So while it may take a lot more time, I've decided I like working on detailed backgrounds. Occasionally. If the picture is worthy of one.

But none of that tells you how I DID the background. Basically, I went online and found several good artworks done of these kinds of ruined-city-scape sort of scenery. I used some building outlines from some to get some practice going, by vector drawing colored shapes over them. The row of houses and the tree up front is entirely me though. I utilized a gradual darker shade for each row to depict depth, then used various cloud tools to get a really eerie mist to blanket between them for that "ruins rising from the mists" look. The ground, I used a rock pattern overlay that came with photoshop, then used the transform tool to get it to fade to the background. After that, a quick cutout filter gave it my own artstyle's look, and I must say it looks fantastic like that. Burn tool makes good shadows. The sky was done with a mix of weird gradients and many vectored layers, imitating vaguely one of the skies from a picture I was referencing. Then some purple and yellow clouds, and tada. Oh, and there's a 7% purple filter over the whole thing, to give it more of a muted, misty tone. Just like I did with 9 My Way , only that used a yellowish filter. Good way for me to tone down my usually saturated color pallet.

I was watching Futurama when I drew that tree, so every time I look at it I think of Bender singing folk songs and getting hit by a train. Augh I can't look at this pic and NOT see that now.

Phineas and Ferb copyrighted to the grand almighty Disney.