Monthly Archives: March 2016

Post Day Blog

Learning as Much as I Can

This has been a pretty darned fantastic learning week for me. Thanks to the awesome tutorials provided by ToolKitten over on Deviant Art, I was able to add more than a few new tricks to my repertoire. I am adding the base colors to my art much faster, and I have a new technique that allows me to easily color in all of the black lines in my drawings after I finish coloring the rest.

Of course, it’s all hearsay when you talk the talk. Let’s go ahead and see me walk the walk, right?

The main page for today’s post has the work I’m more proud of. I still feel like I have a lot to learn, but there is some really cool stuff going there. Below I have what came next:

Figure Study

Now, I’ll admit, she got a little bit on the… boobilicious side. Certainly not my intention, though I guess I’m glad I can do that kinda thing when I want to. The real part that I am proud of here is the line coloring. Previous to this they always had to be just one color, or I had to guess what color I was going to make an object before I even really finished drawing it. No more!

I need to practice it a ton more, but that’s no big deal to me! I’m not sure what I’ll have for next week, but I’ll see you then!

 

Post Day Blog

Post Convergence Work

Here is an example of how things are looking these days. It’s been really interesting having two sort of different art styles being shown at the same time. One was the older work from the comic, that was, in a lot of cases, more as much as six months old. Then I was also showing more recent work on the side as well. This was much more recent, and has a wildly different look. Just showing what I’ve been working on recently from here on in is a good decision, I think. I’m hoping it will make my style seem a lot more cohesive.

This is another piece for my commissioned work. Obviously, since it’s my most recent, I’m pretty happy with it. The biggest change, in terms of the growth here, is that I feel like I really managed to master moving the figure into an interesting and dynamic position. I’ve really struggled with this in the past. It’s been nice to have a “break through: like this. It’ll mean lots more interesting stuff in future work as well.