drawing The Art of Dying | the Gojira project

drawing shapes: the trial and error process

As I explained in my previous post, I'm working on drawing the outro to Gojira's The Art of Dying. This part of the drawing will be nearly 3 meters long when finished, and consists of a pattern of repeated loops that weave together. 

I do the basic linework in pencil, and then check the negative and positive shapes by quickly filling in the loops with colored pencil. It's quite painstaking work, as sometimes just a few millimeters and a slight change in the curves can drastically modify the loops. 

I use a light table to trace, check, and then redraw until the loops have the right feel. Sometimes a set of loops will require a lot of trial and error. I trace a line, erase another, trace a new line, erase it.. Draw, check, erase, draw, check, erase..

I'm always looking for the right balance between the postive and negative shapes, coupled with forward-moving line dynamics and movement.

basic shapes of the outro to The Art of Dying

Over the past few weeks, I've been working on drawing the background shapes for the outro section of "The Art of Dying".

I like to call that section "segment 11". It begins at about 5:55 and consists of several bars that are repeated for nearly 4 minutes.

drawing Gojira's "The Art of Dying": designing the paper sculpture from Rebekah Paulovich-Boucly on Vimeo.

This segment of the drawing is almost 3 meters long. I'm working on a set of shapes that repeat themselves down this full length. Once the loops weave together in just the right way, I'll start filling them in with detailed line work and shading (similar to what I did here).