scrapped it

i finished this a while ago... well i'm calling it finished. to many mistakes to want to keep going with it. its one of those pics where i'm actually thinking of redrawing it compleatly and fixing it. we shall see. anyway heres where i got up to before i scrapped it

on other news my comic is going fairly well. once i've got these 6 pages done i will have the first chapter fully planned and ready to go.

i'm also about to start a watercolour painting. just finishing the sketch off and i'm ready to go :)

a sneak peek

so i'm working on a dragon age fancomic for well fun and practice. i'm planning on using it as a tool to get better at art as it will force me to draw things i havent yet and work on my expressions and angles. anyway heres some of the roughs pages 1 to 4 then pages 17 - 24 some may change but this is what they look like so far :) please excuse my hand writing.

anyway enjoy

faces

some face studies. going to colour these with present colour palettes consisting of 5 colours

and because someone didn't like the speech bubbles on another site i'm uploading this with no speech bubbles. i need to figure out a better way of doing them :/

learning light and shadow

you might have noticed that i've kinda been working in black and white or with a coloured texture over black and white recently. this is part of my plan to get better at light and shadows. so here are some studies of how light effect spherical objects. the first one is defiantly wrong. oh and just so you know no refs used. all done from saying oh the light source is here so it would look like this.

i also bought a tutorial video from gnomon workshop that is about the tonal female portrait to help me improve there. its been quite an enjoyable watch so far... though he needs to touch on the basics before diving right in. so you will hopefully see some portrait studies from me in the future.

digital scribblings

quick face study. i actually have 6 other face studies that are in progress however i'm using them to use limited colour pallets to colour them. will keep you updated. i'm still getting used to drawing in photoshop i am however enjoying it. this is also a rough for one of my comic panels :) though this one will change quite a bit as i want her in shadow so she's not as recognisable here :D this isnt the warden character. i need to build Leliana's face shape more right now its not looking much like her. luckily this is just a plan :D

done as a study. i tried to paint a panel for the comic i'm working on. things are still subject to change. i watched these videos about useing photoshop to create panels and what not and apparently elemts is missing some features there :/ so the panels are not how i would like them to look.

I have been playing around in photoshop and while it will never replace my paints completely I am having a lot of fun right now. photoshop was something that scared me. i felt compleatly lost when trying to use it. i own a copy of elements so its not the best lets leave it at that. tutorials don't match it for example and features are missing. I'm hoping to get CS5. the price for photo shop is always off putting. right now i cant afford it. I'm hoping to raise the funds somehow though. just need to make a plan of action for it :)

still debating of whether to do it digitally or traditionally. i'm actually leaning to a mixture of both. any who time for lunch.