Making New Stuff

Whatever the reason is; I really enjoy making new, original characters a lot more than I enjoy drawing existing characters. I’m certainly not against drawing an existing character. I can draw a cool Spiderman, and it’s a lot of fun. Given the choice, though, I will always invest a lot more into something original, though. I’m not really sure why that is.

I know that there will come a point, hopefully sometime soon, where the things I “have to” draw and the things I want to draw won;t necessarily be the same thing. Hey, I love the idea of getting paid to do the thing I love. Don’t we all? in the meantime, I sure do love getting to draw for no money at all, and I love spending time coming up with new characters and world to populate. That being the case; that’s exactly what I’m going to be doing. πŸ˜€

I’ve got some new ideas I’m beginning to flesh out. My big objective thi stime is to make sure I come up with something pretty damned complete and immersive. One of my own personal complaint’s about Convergence is that the “production design” was lacking. I want my new intellectual property to bleed it’s concept. I am going to be spending a lot more time in character and costume developement. I’m working on a few “mannequins” right now that I can start draping costumes onto. I never really thought my college costume design courses would come in handy. Totally incorrect!

I’ll begin posting stuff as time goes on, of course. Here is what the new IP is going to be; Space Sci-Fi Samurai. Let’s see me achieve it!

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!

 

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