Fanart Post progress.

So, I got it in my head to start shading my comics with marker outside the computer to cut down on the initial photoshop time it usually takes me to work.
In the previous post to this one, you can see this image with only sepia shading I made with prisma marker colors, parchment, khaki, and colorless blender.

It literally cut my work in half. I didn't have to focus on the depth of the image, so I could take time with the other details of it. I'm really grateful to have a method that will make my life so much easier. I really like the earthy texture that marker can give an image, but scanning a completely marker colored work just doesn't have the same power as the original. This is a happy medium.

Blogging failures and Triumphs

For last month's original character challenge, which I totally FLAKED on, I started with a more complex method.

As lovely as my little Carlotta turned out, it was very time consuming to pump out a drawing like this.

Thankfully, this month is fanart, which, sadly, is easier to get behind than drawing my own damn characters. You can see the uncolored preview for SURE!

Sailor Moon, Julia Wertz, Elphaba, and Lina Inverse.

The girls of Miyazaki

So between Amy and Ru, we had quite a few Miyazaki movies to watch one night when the mood struck us. (By the way, that mood is ALL the time.)
I remembered not really caring for Kiki's Delivery Service, and my thoughts are still pretty much the same. BUT. I do like Kiki herself, and her excellent taste in shoes.

After that, we watched a few others, and I doodled a few more of my favorite girls hanging out, but the one I am kicking myself for forgetting is the Red Head from Porco Rosso!!! I will dedicate a post to her later maybe!
But for now, Sophie, Kiki, and Chihiru!

FORVER VACATION.

Well, as much fun as it was to live my life, I'm back now! I have quite of few things to post, so I think I will break them up between posts. First, we will start with some FANART.

Of Marceline, the Vampire Queen.
I really enjoy drawing adventure time characters in my style, but this is the first one I liked enough to ink! It was really fun indie ink practice! Hopefully I'll get more into doing some monochromatic work. I'd like to make some pretty cool wash effects with some pieces. I'm thinking that for this year's 24 hour comic day, I may shoot for indie ink washes, since shading is fun and I'm pretty good at it!

MADE OF WANT.

The List of WANT. Thanks to Amazon. Those bastards.


Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s by Rian Hughes
Rebus by James Jean
Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up by Jason Cheeseman-Meyer
Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 2: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters by Chee Ming Wong (Author), et al.
Layout and Composition for Animation by Ed Ghertner
Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Hans Bacher
The Art of Doug Sneyd by Doug Sneyd
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis
Setting the Scene: The Art & Evolution of Animation Layout by Fraser MacLean
The Art of Pixar: 25th Anniv.: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation by Amid Amidi
The Art of Tangled by Jeff Kurtti
Papercraft: Design and Art With Paper by R. Klanten (Author), et al.
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Layout & Backgrou​nd
Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation by Francis Glebas
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, Second Edition by Michael D. Mattesi
The ILLUSION OF LIFE: DISNEY ANIMATION by Ollie Johnston, Frank Thoma
The Art of Hercules: The Chaos of Creation by Stephen Rebello
The Art of The Incredibles by Mark Cotta Vaz
The Art of Bolt by Mark Cotta Vaz
The Art of Alice: Madness Returns by R.J. Berg
The Art of Kung Fu Panda 2 by Tracey Miller-Zarneke (Author), Dustin Hoffman (Foreword)
Fantasia 2000 : Visions of Hope by John Culhane
A Disney Sketchbook (Introduction by Ken Shue) by The Disney Animators
The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook by Alan Lee
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Story (Walt Disney Animation Archives) by Disney Editions
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Design (Walt Disney Animation Archives) by Disney Editions
Animation (Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Archive Series) by Inc. Disney Enterprises
The Art of Mulan by Jeff Kurtti
The Art of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Stephen Rebello
The Art of The Lion King by Christopher Finch
Joe Chiodo's How To Draw And Paint Pin-Ups by Joe Chiodo
The Art & Illustratio​n of Walter Crane by Jeff A. Menges, Walter Crane
The Red Book of Animal Stories by Andrew Lang (Author), Henry Justice Ford (Author)
The Art of How to Train Your Dragon by Tracey Miller-Zarneke
Mucha by Sarah Mucha
Burlesque Poster Design: The Art of Tease by Yak El-Droubie
The Critic - The Complete Series DVD ~ Christine Cavanaugh

Papercrafting for my best friend.

AND HER CAT. Who liked to sleep on Cacti.

I tired to show more of the process, but I won't like...I get all in my head about the composition, and then I just RUN with it.

I did a preliminary drawing of this papercraft, and actually used my lightbox this time, so get it as close to my original plan as I possibly could! It turned out really well! (I even included on my notes that there had to be an adorable animal butthole!)

At first I was apprehensive to use markers, pens, or anything else besides paper to make these crafts. This time I was unafraid. I broke out my brown Copic pens, used my prismacolor markers, AND even stickers from the crafting stickers I got.

Then all I had to do was get her up! I use shadowbox frames from IKEA because they are just cheaper and easier. Sorry I'm not willing to pay 50 bucks for a "decent" framing. I think it looks pretty effing good, myself.

Papercrafting just turned into Scrapbooking.

I have made the jump! Thanks my sudden acquiring of scrapbook paper, I decided to make some fun little stationary cards.

This first one I made for Ru to use as stationary! The sandcastle is one of those awesome 3D stickers! It's like...babycraft!

This one is made with mostly sticker border and stickers, but by god, I threw it together! I thought these colors represented Breena nicely!

I needed to see if the dark colors would work for me too, so I did one for Hayley that has even darker colors. I'm pretty happy with it. Hell, at the very least, the colors are complimentary.


Finally, I did one for my mumzy. She loves bees. I know right, EFFING BEES. Why? Because they are cute, and they make honey. Not because they kill more people a year than most other "dangerous" animals. WTF ever, the card is cute.

P.S., Amykins, I am going to make one for you, but it will have to be frilly and REALLY over girled, so JUST YOU WAIT.

Next, PAPERCRAFTING FOR FUNZIEZ.

Mary Poppins?! Maid Marian?!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH.

Papercraft, bitches.

Projects on hold.

WELL. I missed this week's post for the Paperlinks project, but that just means I'll have to double post next week, on Tuesday!

Check out the other posts!

I have been a busy bee though! I'm in the process of making 2 papercrafts, so that's really fun! They are really cool sizes, and are proving to be real pains in the ass, but I'm enjoying them greatly!

Over the past week, I had Amy with me for like...6 days. We watched Hoarders and I cleaned my apartment HARDCORE. In doing so, I got a great idea for the Umbra frames I had laying around.

I used the drawings I posted before, and I painstakingly x-actoed them out!


There's Breener...



Amykins...



and Ruthie poo!!

DOUBLE POST.

So, I got some new indie ink stuff! Watercolor paper, inks, watercolors, the works! SO I finally had a chance to play with that. WOOOP. I decided to have fun and draw whatever came to mind.

And then today was the start of a new monthly project Amy suggested!! 30 days of drawing your original characters. It's amazing how many of them you can create. So I'm going to start this shit off with a character from the comic Amy and I are doing!
Colienne

Colienne was created as the female protagonist in the collaborative comic, Jebediah. She was lured by her brother into the wilderness, where she was attacked by a cougar and left to die. She survived it, but lost everything important to her because of the incident. Now that her past has caught up with her, she must face her brother, and let her life truly begin.

Ruth is going to be doing this, as well as Amy, and Breena. We will update Paperlinks weekly with our works, or you can continue to check them out here on the blogs as the days go by!

Amy's Blog!
Breena's Blog!
Ruth's Blog!
Paperlinks!

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Haha, this was fun. My coworker Tesha and I were talking about Halloween when I first starting working with her 2 years ago.

I've learned since then that I can perform the PERFECT Ursula laugh, so I may have to redraw this image properly.

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This was for my old comic Mug. It was a wordless comic about a wolf cub that had jut jaw. He would eventually hook up with a Doberman. LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE FACES.

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MORE OF MY MONSTER GIRLS! I did Genie a long time ago, and I don't honestly remember if it was ever posted here. I'll repost it just so you can see the difference between the old one, and the new one.

NEW ONE


OLD ONE

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YAY PROCESS POST.
So, I spend alot of time redoing artwork. This character of mine has been through SO MUCH CHANGE. She would have schizophrenia if she was a real person. Anyway, this is the linework.

And the colored version.

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THIS ONE TIME. AN OWLSTRICH.

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Time to mega post and make up for DAYS of not posting. I won't lie, alot of what's going up today is work in progress stuff, but it's been a very busy week, full of fail. For the 11 of you that watch me, thanks for being so patient!

Without further ado, this is Suri.

Suri is a demon with hands that come together to make a tarantula. I got the idea rereading Parasite Eve and playing WAAAAAY too much Dead Space. I think she's pretty damn cool.

work of the day!

I did two things today, if you can believe it! I did a dapper snake enjoying tea time,

and Edward from Full Metal Alchemist in the style of Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet. It really seemed to fit nicely. Same body structure, and almost same attitude.

Man, I'm going to make 100 posts in no time with this once a day blog nonsense!

Jebediah!?

I decided today's doodle would be for the comic that Amy and I are working on. It is so fun to say, "HELL WITH THE BACKGROUND", but I sure do go for that approach too often. I think the next post may have to be a background study. YAY EXCUSE TO WATCH WESTERNS!

Anyway, here are James and Colienne, being adorable together.

Beach Comic

This happened today. I didn't forget AMY. <3

The interviews.

I'm going to start doing interviews for Paperlinks, so I decided to draw a self portrait icon for the banner! I will call them Paperviews. Like Pay Per View. Yes it's cute. You know you love it. Hopefully I'll be able to get some really good questions together to ask! Stay tuned to Paperlinks for more detail. Ruth has brought more culture with her museum visit post! Check it out!