I was humming Pete Seeger doing this one
Oh, I thought this was proper old propaganda for a bit. Very nice, the world is his bidet!
https://imgur.com/a/GA2AEew It's supposed to be cloth but it was a struggle to represent it with only 2 colors lol
How the hell do you DO this with just two colours?? I want to make an old-style propaganda poster of a frog who's "looking to the future" as a once-off but I just can't figure out how to draw in this style and it's frustrating. How do you do it?
A LOT of trial and error. I use a large brush and block in big shapes with black, very very roughly just to try to get the silhouette and general proportions. Then I start cutting piece out with by hitting E on krita which turns the brush into an eraser. Then its just constant addition and subtraction over and over again until i get closer and closer to my reference image (this helps, I am not good enough to do original stuff from my own mind, use a reference image to learn), constantly comparing the proportions and angles of sizes of negative spaces, anything to help get the proportions, which is what I struggle with the most. Think of it more like sculpting or carving instead of drawing, and don't be concerned with clean lines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwRa5qTnr8o Watch around the 7 minute mark for a good demonstration and better explanation than I can manage.
How did I miss this?! Holy crap I love all the variations in line weight. It makes this chonky and dynamic. And I love the use of shadow, like with the face. It's all so cool.
Haha thank you. This is my most favorite thing I've done so far. Ultimate goal I want to be able to make original agitprop art reminiscent of soviet propaganda posters.
