Blood Angel Posted July 24, 2004 #1 Share Posted July 24, 2004 In this thread i will show you step by step how my art comes together. First up is the sketch: Tomorrow i will post up the digital inked version, along with the sketch underneath to show you how close i kept to the sketch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seraphina Posted July 24, 2004 #2 Share Posted July 24, 2004 This should be cool And dude, gotta love the witty dialogue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpius Posted July 25, 2004 #3 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Interesting, sounds like the same process I did with my semi-abstract drawings in my thread. By the way, what does it say on his gun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #4 Share Posted July 25, 2004 o_o it syas smith and wesson. all the rest is just squiggles. I scanned it at 300 dpi (dots per inch) making it large enough to put in some extra detail, so i will replace the squiggle with actual text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterkiller2001 Posted July 25, 2004 #5 Share Posted July 25, 2004 actually.. i did a simple little thing to it.. and it came out looking seriously sweet.. Kinda sad your in the UK man.. My company dosen't deal with artists outside US borders.. It's something i could almost swear a certain customer would buy Don't worry I don't jack artwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #6 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Once its finished i guarantee it will be ten times better. What company is it you work for? And more specifically what does the company do/trade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #7 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Heres the gun, and face inked. Using 5px airbrush, round hard with 25% flow, inking. The whole gun took me at least a hour and a half. How did i get the lines so straight? easy, using the line tool. Theres around 20 layers(!) of line tool on the gun. As you can see i cropped the image to show off the gun, not the entire pic, which i assure you will remain intact. I scanned the sketch at 300dpi, and zoomed in at 300% to do this. This is all done by mouse, inking in its self is like redrawing the entire picture, not going over the lines like people with a tablet do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #8 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Here i'm working on the forefinger, thats resting on the triggerguard of the pistol: As you can see the sketch is blue. I simply changed the layer colour properties of the sketch layer, to make it light blue. This makes it easier to see your lines when going over it in "ink". Notice the dots outlining the line. I use these dots as a guide to keep my ink line as steady as possible. The biggest problem with mouse inking, is shaky lines. Which is corrected at the last stage of inking..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #9 Share Posted July 25, 2004 One of the biggest problems with using a round brush, is the round edges it gives: As you can see here, i have used the eraser tool, to taper off the edges. Making it look more sharp, and professional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #10 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Inking all finished! There it is with the sketch underneath. Now take away the sketch: hmm, it looks slightly weird doesn't it? The forefinger looks shorter, doesn't seem to fit? Well this is because the shading that the sketch had is now gone. The nest step is to colour it, giving the picture more depth. Which will be in the next post.... The whole inking took me 6 hours to complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #11 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Now for the colouring. The colour style i'm using is cel colouring (block colour, with shading and highlights), as apposed to soft cel colouring(more use of the airbrush, with multitoned coloring, etc etc). So first is the base colour: At the time i coloured this, i had already finished the complete gun, so it would have looked kinda odd. >_< i get to eager sometimes when colouring. Then we add the shading: See how that short flat finger now becomes a "3d" proper looking finger? (note the base colour of the hair is brown, i later changed this to black, it seemed to suit the hero better.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #12 Share Posted July 25, 2004 And now the Coloured product: Its all coloured, but it still feels unfinished. The hero, doesn't look angry enough, and theres no background or caption. SoOoOo....i added a real life photo of a mountain, played with the filters to make it fit in with the actual picture. Then with true anime tradition, i gave him anger blush, not to be confused with normal "ohmygodijustsawachicknaked" blush (which appears on the high cheeks only). And because we can't hear him threatening some dude thats opposite him, i added text. Now in anime ('cept for the real crap ones/old ones they use blank white) when its subtitled, its yellow with black outline to make it stand out on the screen (so it doesn't get confused with the main picture). So i added the text to give it that fresh straight from a film look: There we go all done...' rather proud of this one. And no stealing! (hence copyright) To see the rest of my works click hither, including the full size version of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityForEvil Posted July 25, 2004 #13 Share Posted July 25, 2004 very nice drawing. very well used dialog too. i tryed to draw like that once but it looked lik a blob eating harry potter. it was saposed to be a mouse eating chease. guess we just leave the drawing to the pros. your guy looks more constipated than angry tho. thats angry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #14 Share Posted July 25, 2004 your guy looks more constipated than angry tho. Umm right....moving on. Thanks for the comment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gollum Posted July 25, 2004 #15 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Nice work BA, you should think about doing it for a living. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #16 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Nice work BA, you should think about doing it for a living. ^^ thanks....but i know many more people that deserve a job more than me, in this field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snuffypuffer Posted July 25, 2004 #17 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Not too bad.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 25, 2004 Author #18 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Not too bad.... ^^ thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snuffypuffer Posted July 25, 2004 #19 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Not too bad.... ^^ thanks Hey, I was being honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterkiller2001 Posted July 26, 2004 #20 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Once its finished i guarantee it will be ten times better. What company is it you work for? And more specifically what does the company do/trade? I work for an advertising/multimedia company in NYC. We do magazine ads, CD booklets, pamphlets, commercials, DvD menus.. stuff like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 26, 2004 Author #21 Share Posted July 26, 2004 I work for an advertising/multimedia company in NYC. We do magazine ads, CD booklets, pamphlets, commercials, DvD menus.. stuff like that. Why do you only deal within the US borders, when media can be transported via the internet instantly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterkiller2001 Posted July 26, 2004 #22 Share Posted July 26, 2004 (edited) Basically, the government offers our company tax cuts if they deal only with americans.. I'm assuming this is part of the "jump start the economy" plan our oh wise president ( ) is trying to do. We sell to foreigners all the time.. we just don't freelance thier artwork... which is BS, imho.. Since this policy kicked in a few months back, we've been so backed up because a lot of our freelancers worked in Canada, the UK, and germany. But I'm telling you.. the neon glow image i posted would have fit perfectly into a CD book let we've been contracted to make.. It fits right into the specifications Virgin records provided us with. American policy sucks sometimes Edited July 26, 2004 by hunterkiller2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 26, 2004 Author #23 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Virgin records....thats a british company. e_e; i'm so gutted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+joc Posted July 27, 2004 #24 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Nice work BA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Angel Posted July 27, 2004 Author #25 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Nice work BA! Thanks joc ^^' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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