Painting Take on Me song from a-ha | Step-by-Step

in #artzone6 years ago
Hello steemians, today I'm reaching you with a new series of drawings I'm working on, based on my favorite musicians and music videos. In this step-by-step I'll show you the process of the first piece based on the "Take on me" music video from a-ha, a Norwegian band from Oslo who rocked starting in the 80s.

take on me thumb.jpg

Before stepping into the process, I need to say that the reason I chose this song goes back in time. It is one of my all-time favorite videos and songs, plus it is very significant for me because my dad loved that song as well, and listened it a lot when I was born. Also, the creative take on the video was inspiring for me and introduce my love for drawing and comics.

Tools: iPad Pro, Procreate


Step 1: Sketch
Sketch.jpg

Before deciding the sketch, I started with another idea which can bee sen on my speed art video at the end of the blog post. At first I couldn't get the right position for our young Morten Harket, so I changed the point of view and eventually got comfortable with the result. I did the sketching in blue this time so I won't get confused with the black inking.

Step 2: Frontal inking
Ink 1.jpg

There's a scene from the video when the girl sees Morten from a window (or comic vignette) in his real form. I thought this was really cute. Inking needed to be done separately, dividing the girl from Morten who's going to be painted directly on the next step.

Step 3: Painting Morten
Inkcolor.jpg

The coloring style is pretty plain, but expressive. I don't think he resembles 100% young Morten (he was such a cute guy) but I tried my best until I got the perfect expression.

Step 4: Fillings and textureIlustración_sin_título(4).jpg

After painting Morten, I used two tones of grey fillings to make more dimension and atmosphere. And for the girl I used a plain white fill to highlight she's like also made of paper like in the video. The final touch was adding a tv screen texture for a more retro effect.

Result
take_on_me__a_ha___gabee_carrera_by_gabeecm-dcj15lg.jpg


Check my speed art video below for more details

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