This is step 2 of the enlargement work I started from the Blake and Mortimer comic book: The Valley of the Immortals. The original album is at the bottom of the image above to give an idea of the original scale.
I want to use the entire 24 × 36 canvas space starting from a standard size comic book. I must modify the scale by adding an extra 10% to the height. However, when comes the time to draw the perfect circle located at the top left of the album, a standard 1:1 scale must be used so as not to transform the faces of the two heroes who are looking at us from the front. A painting made with two different scales does not produce a true copy, but it is still acceptable and realistic.
Trying to match an album’s original colour often requires mixing four different colours or more. Experience has shown that any newly created colour should be allowed to dry for several minutes on another canvas to ensure that it does not deviate too much from the desired colour, because it darkens when it dries. Mistakes are inevitable, however…
It looks as I will complete the canvas within the next few months, providing I work a few hours each day.
A third and final article will be published when the painting is completed.
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