my latest wip

i haven't a title for this one yet. i have been doing a lot of work for my comic recently. mainly paintings and planning for the warden character of the story and the script itself. i'm a little annoyed as i have to rewrite some of the chapters as there on the dead pc... that or buy one of those cases that i can put a hard drive in... that would probably be easier. we shall see. lots of work to do on this still. i hope to get it done buy the end of tomorrow. the background while simple was quite fun started off yellowish and has slowly shifted to greenish. i love working with lots of glazes.

before i finalise her design i'm gonna look into hair. think i could do a better job of hair in general. i liked my barbarin pic's hair quite alot. think i've lost that Art nuvor feeling. also i might actually ink the hair after i've painted it wont be as set then. something to experiment with. probably gonna work on lots of portraits as i need to work on faces and expressions and what not. i think i can do portraits for the next month and if i do them quite small (i'm planning on A6) i hopefully can get more done and improve more because of it. i will get better at drawing faces.

trying something out

yes your eyes are not deceiving you i'm working on a digital painting. i wanted to try using the colour layer mode to paint. and originally i was gonna print it and copy it to watercolour paper that way but kinda got carried away. especially since i seem to be figuring stuff out about photoshop recently. i actually created a brush from a jpeg file today and feeling pretty pleased with myself. i've also figured out how to have 2 windows showing the same picture which is useful. she still needs work. its the warden character for my dragon age fan comic. still figuring stuff out and what not. i actually hope to start work on it soon :)

i actually have several chapters planned out already for it fully as well as bits and piece here and there for further in the story. i want it to look like watercolours. but here's the thing watercolour can be pretty slow. however i actually may have figured out a solution for it. paint the comic in grey scale watercolours and colour it digitally using layers set to colour etc. i need to research this a bit more though.

i'm also thinking of doing a name change from the defult wardens name neria to something else. i'm thinking Elida same flow so it will go with her surname and meaning small winged one which wardens symbol been a groffon and elves been smaller then humans is kinda fitting. not sure yet though.

the barbarian, mushroom glades change in direction

first off my barbarian self portrait is compleated all that is left now is to play around with the colours in photoshop and a little bit of clean up. i'm hoping to get that done soon. i'll update once its done

so i went back to the mushroom glade painting. i'm hoping to see my sister next week if shes free. its good to have a deadline :) anywho i have actually been unhappy with this painting for a while. i think some of the changes i have made have improved it, the depth is better at the background foliage, and i still need to fix that depth in places

i'm not happy with the grass under the faeries feet so i am trying out this absorbent ground which acts as magical white out to hopefully fix the problem. we shall see. hopefully i will have an update for it soon :)