@Kamitosis: OMG, everything this week gets the F YEAH reaction here, man did Pixie come out super cool.
and then I keep scrolling and see more and more epicness.
Someones been drinking their red bull :D
lol not red bull... just ridiculous amounts of coffee. Ridiculous. But thank you. I think this new method for tablet work is really helping. Working on Mercury tonight, and then Anole and Rockslide tomorrow.
I agree, you're mixing in more dynamics into your shadings. It's almost like there's an additional layer of details being put into it :)
@Kamitosis: whoa, that is a KILLER rendition of dust, very cool on the special fx ;)
Thanks, it took awhile. Giving Pixie the digital ink treatment now for X-Kiddies week.
i really like this picture. the perspective is different, but subtly. i have a hard time with anything other than straight on esp foreshortening. really nice.
@gunjin: thanks And the final entry for X-Kiddies week: ROCKSLIDE. Good god, I didn't even have hardly enough room for his freaking arms!!! But I was happy with it.
@Kamitosis: whoa, turning up the volume for the weekend eh :)
Mercury came out sweet, great job getting that chromish look. Anole came out cool too and your Rockslides are getting as good as your Jubes.
Thank you.
And now, I'm just going to drop this here. I've only ever drawn people kissing once and it SUCKED, so I tried it again tonight. No reference, straight tablet, coloring tomorrow. And of course, my otp, Jubilee and Jono. I'm actually SUPER proud of this one.
@Kamitosis: yea, I actually caught this one off the tumbler just a lil bit ago, very beautiful job, especially without reference. It's passionate and romantic, has a lot of emotion to it. Well done :)
@Kamitosis: yea, I actually caught this one off the tumbler just a lil bit ago, very beautiful job, especially without reference. It's passionate and romantic, has a lot of emotion to it. Well done :)
Thanks. Yeah I was kind of giddy that I managed to get this right.
Now with colors. I kind of gave up at the background stage.
I really wish I had known about this freaking ink well feature in gimp before. My digital inking on this piece came out looking like my hand drawn pics.
and the reference photo (myself in my Jubilee cosplay I was assembling)
That's almost a absolute perfect translation from reference to shot. What is this 'ink well' feature of which you speak? What is it doing on the inks?
I do like how it turns out :)
It gives it a more clean line quality. Before I was using the paint brush and it had a softer tone. This ends up emulating ink pens and that was the feel I had wanted from the start. I wish I had known about it sooner.
That's almost a absolute perfect translation from reference to shot. What is this 'ink well' feature of which you speak? What is it doing on the inks?
I do like how it turns out :)
It gives it a more clean line quality. Before I was using the paint brush and it had a softer tone. This ends up emulating ink pens and that was the feel I had wanted from the start. I wish I had known about it sooner.
yea, with a brush your always battling with it 'being a brush'. So does this vectorize the lines or is it like a raster filter. It is very clean, looks vector actually.
That's almost a absolute perfect translation from reference to shot. What is this 'ink well' feature of which you speak? What is it doing on the inks?
I do like how it turns out :)
It gives it a more clean line quality. Before I was using the paint brush and it had a softer tone. This ends up emulating ink pens and that was the feel I had wanted from the start. I wish I had known about it sooner.
yea, with a brush your always battling with it 'being a brush'. So does this vectorize the lines or is it like a raster filter. It is very clean, looks vector actually.
It's not vector, but it has similar results to the pen tool in photoshop, it's just easier to control.
@Kamitosis: yea, it has very similar characteristics to vector but there's definitely some nice shading to it that's got a much more traditional look to it. A nice mix :)
Here's one I JUST did for the lols. ok, there is a joke to this one. A friend said I should totally start a roleplay tumblr for Xarus since she was playing Jubilee. So I did. There is spam going around on tumblr from a robot account by the name lolsummer69 talking about naked pics and just about everyone has gotten one. So as a joke, poor old Xarus Tepes has no idea what spam is and opens it. Brad was Xarus' right hand vamp and head of handling the logistics and technology in Curse of the Mutants thus why he's asking Brad. It's stupid but the idea amused me so I drew it.
@Kamitosis: haha, no one is safe from the scourge of porn spam :D
That second frame cracks me up, he looks like he's trying to get a 'gulp' down.
haha I hadn't even noticed that, but he totes does!
So since I was playing his part last night in the RP I'm in, I felt inclined to draw him. I used actor Sean Bean as a reference (but unlike certain professional comic artists I didn't trace or direct copy *coughgreglandcough*. I also went for a more classic comic art style with this one.
Really been drawing too much Xarus lately (but hey, I think I am the only one doing fanart of him, and he's so much fun to RP) Here he is with Jubilee (a scene from the RP) Drawing is called "Pet"
@tonis tried that coloring technique again and it's working really well.
This was done for my friend who is right now in the middle of the London riots.
@Kamitosis: hehe, so Xarus has become your new Jubes eh.
very sophisticated pose, it's like he's about to give a professional wine analysis. :)
Thanks and lol only for now. I'm giving the Jubster a bit of a break. And no one else draws him so someone has to. And I think he's testing the blood alcohol level of a finely aged O neg.
@Kamitosis: hehe, so Xarus has become your new Jubes eh.
very sophisticated pose, it's like he's about to give a professional wine analysis. :)
Thanks and lol only for now. I'm giving the Jubster a bit of a break. And no one else draws him so someone has to. And I think he's testing the blood alcohol level of a finely aged O neg.
ahh that type O aged just right has a lotta kick. Good thing it's not mine, he'd probably end up tripping XD
That's not a bad strategy to tackle the characters in need of more exposure like that, very slick ;)
@Kamitosis: hehe, so Xarus has become your new Jubes eh.
very sophisticated pose, it's like he's about to give a professional wine analysis. :)
Thanks and lol only for now. I'm giving the Jubster a bit of a break. And no one else draws him so someone has to. And I think he's testing the blood alcohol level of a finely aged O neg.
ahh that type O aged just right has a lotta kick. Good thing it's not mine, he'd probably end up tripping XD
That's not a bad strategy to tackle the characters in need of more exposure like that, very slick ;)
Thanks, it really is a pity he only lasted for 12 issues, I thought he had some awesome potential.
@Kamitosis: wow man, that really ups the impact factor with the colors and background. Especially with the writing on the wall and his gold linings. Very cool :)
So been a relatively slow last few weeks but let's see what I've been up to.
Did the above for the RP I'm in. This was done during a tumblr segment I like to call "Drink and Draw." Xarus on his throne. All digitally done.
This next one was inspired by Peter Nguyen's AGE OF JUBILEE picture in which he drew an Ascended Jubilee in Apocalypse's armor (one of this week's art picks) and how he felt Jubilee was always left out in terms of being affected by Apocalypse. So I drew vamp Jubes as the Horsemen of Death. Did the whole thing live online through my new livestream channel www.livestream.com/theartofk
Here is the all digital drawing through it's different stages: sketch phase inking phase colors with shading stage finished. Piece took about 4 hours.
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