Sail to India Artist Diary: Charting the Course
Artist Juhani Jokinen has kindly provided us with a look into the creation of the cover illustration for Sail to India.
When John Goodenough from AEG contacted me
about a commission to paint the cover for Sail to India game, I was
happy to accept. Maritime art is one of my favorite genres and I
immediately had a few ideas for the painting. I proceeded to search for
reference of 16th century merchant ships and prepared 3 sketches for the
client to choose from.
The art director decided to go with the
first sketch and I started the painting process. I had a fairly good
idea of what I was going to do but I still needed to find the right
colors. The ship took the bulk of the painting time with all the details
and complex shapes. Much of the detail work was to come later, this
step was simply about finding the shapes and the correct mood for the
image.
So far the folks at AEG seemed happy with
image so it was easy for me just to proceed and finish the image. A lot
of detail work was done at this stage, including the ropes, other ship
details and the port in the background. This part of the process is
often the easiest one since all the heavy lifting has already been done.
After the painting process was done I did the final color adjustments
and then the image was done.
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