Creative Mondays 118 – Louis Tully

“What is Creative Mondays?

Monday’s are always a drag. The start of a new week, you have to go back to that routine of going to bed early/get up early. If (like me) you have to commute then you prepare for that long journey into work and that long journey back for the first time after a nice two day break.

So to kick off those lousy Mondays, I’m going to get my creative mind flowing in a positive way. Creative Mondays. A chance for me to show off something unfinished or finished that I’ve been working on throughout the previous week.”

Ghostbusters has been on my mind recently (probably due to the sad passing away of Harold Ramis) and there was an old illustration I had sitting in my files for well over a year that I figured was time to resurrect. I had completed some of the basic work already with an outline drawing in Illustrator ready to go. Once this was tidied up a bit I exported the outline into Photoshop to begin layering up Tully’s face and features.

Using this technique isn’t particularly new to me as I’ve experimented with this style in several of my Creative Mondays pieces. However I’ve never attempted to recreate a human face before and this was a pretty big challenge. There are still elements that I’m not overly satisfied with, namely the mouth and the nose but I enjoyed the challenge and I’d certainly try this type of thing again!