Minidump

Happy New Year to all of you!

One of my New Years’s resolutions was to be creative every day – writing, drawing, whatever.

I’ve been drawing nearly every day and while I still have to scan the pencil art I can show some of the digital ones.

Best friends

I drew this for Charloft where I’m writing and roleplaying with Julian. The prompt was to show the character’s best friends.

Gwynnie on the hunt

Jul has got a sister most recently, and now she’s got a face. Her name is Gwynnie.

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Another year gone by …

2008

Happy End of the Year and a good start into the next one!

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A night out

Recently I read the new graphic novel telling the story of Stephen King’s Dark Tower.
Though I never made it through the second volume of King’s saga, I liked the graphic novel very much.

Especially the artwork!
In the first volume there was a mini tutorial. I decided to try the technique on an old sketch:

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The first and most important step: Create clean lineart!
Since I normally don’t do this, it took me a rather long time. But spending time and effort on this will make life easier in the following steps.

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Next I worked on the background. I had reference material for the flames which helped a lot when it came to picking the appropriate colors. The fire was painted with different standard brushes and a low value for “Flow”.

According to the tutorial, I picked the darkest color from the background and filled my lineart with it:

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Not bad, but this led to the next problem: How much color could/should be visible on the characters?
This time I tried something I learned in the digitalartforum: Treat coloring and shading as different problems.
So I did the shading with only one color on one layer. On top of it I had another layer on which I only painted the colors without any shading.
The color layer got the blending mode “Color dodge” and 50 % opacity. Now it looked like this:

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Almost there! Some work on the metal parts and some highlights and I call it done:

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I’m quite satisfied with the result. Having such a structured work flow was very helpful for me.
Maybe it is for you, too :)

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Miniupdate

I forgot a picture in the last update:

war_preparations.jpgSnake’s getting ready for a night out.

And I’m not yet done with the duck theme:

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Mighty Ducks rock! And I haven’t even watched the show very often when I was younger.

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Braindump II

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Speedpainting which is supposed to become a detailed picture.

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I saw many beautiful and tattoed people during my holidays. This girl is composed of at least three of them.

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Nothing new.

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Incomplete band picture of Jul’s old band. I used a reference for the girl to the left. The reference wasn’t as deformed as she is now :(

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Snake is posing again.

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Drawing was therapy.

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Jul again.

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Do you know who he is (without looking at the file name)?

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Mortis. He’s stuck in my head. Arrogant bastard.

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Uhm … well. Kei_oz and me were watching some episodes of Mighty Ducks … which led to … this.

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