Tracer Art Walkthrough: Basic Level

Tracer Art Walkthrough: Basic Level

SInce this art consists of mostly the same technique as my previous Dva art tutorial http://luffie.tumblr.com/post/164178679923/dva-line-art-tutorial-basic-level-ive-been 

So I won’t be delving much into techniques but describe more about my thoughts and the process that is going on in creating this artwork.

A failed attempt at manga style 

This art actually predates the Dva version, and initially it wasn’t my main idea to create something like this. 

Initially, I wanted to create a simple manga styled line art on Tracer. It looked fine at first... 

But as I look at it longer, it was clear that something was not right.... Tracer looked a little dumb and may I say... a little down syndrome. So I decided that this is not going to cut it and rework the whole face again. 

Now the face actually looked much better, but because I am very nitpicky, I also felt that her eyes looked off and weird, so I went in and readjust it again into.... 

THIS.... This looked so much better, at least her eyes looked normal now. 

By now, I have decided that it gets a little boring to try and paint the usual tracer with the usual style. So I thought of trying something more unconventional, like making it into more illustrative style, and also attempting to use colors that are quite off the mark from the official Tracer design. 

As you can see, I added patterns that depicts her lightning speed, and even some butterflies to show that she floats like one. No bees, because she her guns doesn’t exactly sting though. 

Again, the same technique as before, I fill in block colors and started shading some of them to get the feel of the color harmony that I wanted to put, something that lies mainly with orange and blue. This is starting to look like a different Tracer definitely. 

As the colors are more or less finalized and the background added, I felt that the color scheme is really nice and suitable, this is gonna be awesome. 

I painted in all her extra decorations and also the roman numbers, though it is hard to see here due to its color. 

While I really like the color scheme, I felt it lack that final oomph, and so I saturated the colors a little and make th e orange more reddish and the blue just slightly more purplish (if that’s a word!). I also inverted the color of her speed trails to make it more obvious, plus a little more texture to the background and I call this sweet artwork done! 

The pose is actually derived from me imagining Tracer saying good bye to her normal life, now that she can no longer live without her chronal accelerator, thus the little sadness in her look. 

Since this was my first work employing this style, I can say that many things can be improved further as I am not yet very accustomed to it. But it does produce interesting results and I desire to develop it further. If you like my tutorials or have some great suggestions, do not hesitate to tell me! 

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