Page 39 - Sports Illustrated KIDS Magazine (January - February 2020)
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“A happy accident is the green
of the court and the green of the
ball. I love the way that looks. That
added some interest: using the green
of the court and that blue border,
and taking those and putting them
in the racket. And tying those
colors together creates
a more cohesive
palette.”
“Naturally, the audience is a
secondary element in this image.
If you approach a picture with the
same amount of detail to all the parts,
attention. So, simplify the parts of the
audience to just simple shapes. Basically
you can just drop in dots and blocks
and whatnot and the brain kind of
makes up the in-between and
creates the audience
for you.”
Like we learned in tips 16 and
17, sometimes you draw an athlete
and they feel stagnant. “You want
her sprinting from left to right, and the
lines on the court— everything’s kind
of going in that direction. Her shadow
starts small and goes bigger. And the
exaggeration of the pose. It all lends
itself to movement. And the fact that
she’s completely in the air, this
floating figure, sells the
movement as well.”
Sometimes you can’t find the
perfect reference photo on Google.
“If you’re trying to make something “The tension in her face is
up, it’s always helpful to pull a light where I want the focus to be.
out and set the timer on your camera My goal was to create a dynamic
phone.” Take a photo of yourself in the pose by having this triangular shape
pose you want to draw! “Every drawing created by her two legs, directing
I have, there’s 30 to 500 photos the eye up to her head. The stands
of me holding these ridiculous against the sky—those lines guide
poses with different toward her face. In general the
lighting.” extremities of her body all
move toward the focal
point.” SIKIDS.COM / 37
