Happy Birthday Tim! | Timelapse: The Rosa Rejects!

by Tim Von Rueden

Hello and welcome to The timelapse of the Rosa Rejects to celebrate vonn’s 23rd Birthday!

 Total Time: 9.5 hours

 Software: Photoshop

 Song: Royalty Free Music 154 (Outdoor Eight Bit Skating) Eight Bit_Video Game_8-bit

So for this birthday, I wanted to take and break and draw something for myself. I haven’t drawn my little Reject characters in almost a year, so I figured now was the perfect time for an update!

However, that doesn’t mean i didn’t want to challenge myself. For this piece I wanted to set some guidelines for myself that I had to follow:

  • NO using more than the basic circle brushes
  • NO overlay or multiply layers
  • NO zooming in
  • NO background
  • NO levels editing

I am doing this to challenge myself as a concept artist and push myself to work outside of my comfort zone. You will see in the timelapse that there are some times that I struggle, especially for the times I was dying to zoom in and detail on a closer scale.

Another new method I was trying out was to not focus on one until the detailing stage and keep moving from one to the next to have them feel like they were being completed together rather than individually. I started with a basic thicker line sketch to figure out the poses and sizing of them. From there I made the brush smaller and started working on details to flesh out the character’s personality a bit more and to differentiate them from one another.

When it came to lay the color on, I created a new layer underneath the lineart and I was color picking darker hues and laid it on pretty solid. From there I would create new layers ABOVE the lineart layer and start working on my shading and value build up.

Rinse, wash, repeat for 9 hours and this is my end result!

The Rosa Rejects – September 29th 2012

These are my rejects. From Left to Right: Nubia Palacios, Dan Goslin, Tim Von Rueden (vonn), Angela Alessi

You may remember a chibi tutorial series I did last year with these same characters:

Exclusive: Drawing Chibi Style Characters

- If you are wondering what these characters represent or why they have meaning to me, they are the three friends I met in art school and we would do everything with each other. I started the “Rosa Rejects” as a joke but it stuck and that’s what we would become known for around the school. So ever since then I’ve been drawing different interpretations of the rejects ever since.

Thanks for checking out my birthday timelapse post! I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I did created it! If you have any comments or questions, feel free to leave them in the comment section below!

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Discussion

20 Responses to “Happy Birthday Tim! | Timelapse: The Rosa Rejects!”
  1. Brett McCoy
    Posts: 5

    Cool stuff, mate!

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     Sep 29, 2012 at 3:11 pm
  2. Jazma McDaniel
    Posts: 10

    Nice piece!

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     Sep 29, 2012 at 9:23 pm
  3. mayar ghaly
    Posts: 2

    Pretty cool! Happy Birthday Vonn :D

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     Sep 30, 2012 at 12:54 pm
  4. oldman44
    Posts: 70

    Happy Birthday, Tim.

    May you have many many more.

    -Danny

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     Sep 30, 2012 at 1:18 pm
  5. opilone
    Posts: 1

    Wheee! Happy Birthday!:)

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     Oct 1, 2012 at 6:41 am
  6. Juan Nicolas Gomez
    Posts: 29

    Happy Birthday Tim! keep making cool stuff! :D

    -Jnick

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     Oct 1, 2012 at 7:05 am
  7. Juan Nicolas Gomez
    Posts: 29

    But, why does dammo always seems to have blood?

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     Oct 2, 2012 at 7:07 am
  8. Nathan Ferguson
    Posts: 32

    I think I might be a bit too late, but, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM :D Hope you had a wonderful day! btw really nice job on the characters :)

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     Oct 2, 2012 at 7:39 pm
  9. Juan Nicolas Gomez
    Posts: 29

    why does danmox always seems to be bleeding?

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     Oct 3, 2012 at 12:44 pm
    • Tim Von Rueden
      Posts: 635

      Oh Dan isn’t bleeding, he is our team medic and to use his healing powers, he must cut open the injured and have his hands in contact with the blood. That’s why he always has blood on his hands :D

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       Oct 4, 2012 at 10:12 am
    • Tim Von Rueden
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      Oh Dan isn’t bleeding, he is our team medic and to use his healing powers, he must cut open the injured and have his hands in contact with the blood. That’s why he always has blood on his hands :D

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       Oct 4, 2012 at 10:12 am
  10. Juan Nicolas Gomez
    Posts: 29

    thanks, I thought he had some kind of accident or something! :D

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     Oct 4, 2012 at 12:49 pm
  11. gray1989
    Posts: 3

    Hi, it seems the download of files for citizen does not work correct – I receive always the “Submerged” tutorial files. Can you please fix?

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     Mar 22, 2013 at 4:50 pm
  12. Kana Lunatic
    Posts: 1

    can I use the drawing for modeling the Rosa Rejects? :D haha

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     May 12, 2013 at 4:21 am
    • Tim Von Rueden
      Posts: 635

      Oh that would be great! I would love to see progress shots if you go ahead with modeling the Rejects! =D

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       May 14, 2013 at 10:58 am

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