The Griffin (🇫🇷 Le Griffon)

This illustration was made as a commission for a french Brewery. You can see the creatures on display on their beer bottles on their website http://brasserieautremonde.fr/ The brewery only displays the illustrations in black and white, and the colored version are more a proof of concept of coloring my own digital art.

Technique

The technique used was, as i like to call it “Digital carving " technique. This consists in several succssive steps

1. Sketching using a pencil brush
2. Put a black layer on top, in high opacity to distinguish the sketch through the canvas
3. With a white brush, or on erasing mode, withdraw the black from the canvas to create the whites.
4. The colors were added on a separate layer on top, with the multiply blending mode on