HUGEnFAST: In every splash, we strive to really understand what’s going on first. This little detail was a really important discovery for Chengwei “ KIllerPanda0007 ” Pan when he was painting, and I think it’s part of what makes the splash so unique. When we got back, we took some pictures and realized that light filtered through the umbrella tints everything slightly orange. Like for Pool Party Leona, we went out and bought an orange umbrella. HUGEnFAST: Usually, but more generally, the goal is to build understanding. Is there a specific thing you’re looking for when taking reference pictures?
We definitely didn’t create a new technique here-it’s more like a bridge between traditional painting and the crazy, digital art we make today. Renaissance painters would hire a bunch of models to stand exactly how they wanted, for hours on end, and then they’d literally just copy them. HUGEnFAST: Yeah, and even before that, it was life. HUGEnFAST: Reference pictures have been important to painters since… forever.ģrdColossus: Basically, since photography was invented.
HUGEnFAST: And to make it believable, sometimes we have to mess around in real life, like, ‘Wait, how do hands work again?’” Where’d the idea of using reference images come from? It can be tempting to make everything up, but if you want to make these crazy characters still feel anchored to reality, you have to add that one moment of believability. I take a bunch with slightly different angles and slightly different poses and then pick the one that fits.ģrdColossus: A big reason our images tend to stand out is because they’re informed from real life. HUGEnFAST: In my phone, I probably have like a hundred photos of my hand because I’m not exactly sure what’ll work best. You can waste a lot of time on a drawing that doesn’t work, but photos provide a quick proof-of-concept and allow for a ton of variety and fun camera angles really fast.
If you ever need to figure out how something works, the easiest thing to do is pull out your phone, grab a room, and start snapping selfies.ģrdColossus: What you’re seeing is just one picture, but we often take like twenty slightly different ones to figure out what looks the best before we even start drawing. DO YOU GUYS TAKE PICTURES FOR EVERY SPLASH, THEN? Sometimes, you can get by just with just a Google search, but other times, there’s a very specific thing, like a facial expression worthy of Draven, that you can’t find a good reference for, so you just make it yourself. Joshua “HUGEnFAST” Smith: Reference images are kind of like research to figure out what something is supposed to look like. Every artist on the splash team has entire folders filled with pictures like this. It’s one of my favorite reference images-I could instantly picture the final splash art when he made that scrunched up face. Victor “3rdColossus” Maury: That’s one of the pictures I took while working on the Beast Hunter splash.
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