tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24851869040361890672024-03-05T17:55:07.757-08:00Put your pencil down!A peek at Bentan's works in progress.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-22245531737443526142014-02-12T23:20:00.001-08:002014-02-12T23:20:21.808-08:00New Olympic Event: Polar Bear Snow Shovelathon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some variations. The last one is destined for a tattoo.</div>
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I start in Corel Painter. I have a reference photo that I'm only very loosely using. The first challenge is just getting the basic shapes and proportions. At this point I'm mostly trying to figure out the curve of the back, the hips, and the shoulders. The head is barely attached right -- it's something I always have trouble with. The reference photo actually has a really straight back, but I decided to curve it. I'm drawing using the Scratchboard tool. The canvas is already 3000px x 3000px and I'm drawing on a new layer. The pen is fairly thick at this point, maybe 60px. This duplicates the feeling of drawing thumbnails -- the thick pen forces you to work on large shapes and not on details.</div>
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I create a new layer, and change the color of the pen. Now working in the details. I decide I want a shirt on. Spend a little more time trying to get head and face in right. At this point I decide that I want her to yawn, so I also add her raised arm to help sell that. Notice how far everything has shifted from the blue.</div>
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Create another layer and hide the blue. Still using the scratchboard tool, but now with black ink and a much smaller tip. Maybe around 18px. The key here is to draw very fast and loose -- if you draw slow, it shows and sucks all the life out.. If a line doesn't look right, undo and do it over again. It can take me 10 tries to get a line right. Notice there's a lot more shifting going on. I'm relying on the red lines to give me the basic overall shape, but I'm shifting bits and pieces around quite a bit. I also have to do a fair amount of refinement of some lines, erasing edges and filling in others.</div>
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Also, this started with just the body and the head. I put the hair on another layer, and the back arm on another layer. This way if I screw those up, I can easily erase them without erasing my original lines. Later I merge the three layers into one.</div>
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New layer with the sheets. Again so they can be erased, but also because I know I want the lines to be a different color. I lightened the main lines just to emphasize the sheets here. I didn't actually do that while I was drawing.</div>
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Lately I like to start coloring with the background. It gives me some idea how to handle the skin. This is still in Painter, on a new layer. My standard coloring tool is the Tinting Basic Round. I like how it lays down color and lets me do gradations. Feels a bit like watercolors.</div>
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Skin coloring. Same tools. I erase a bit of the color for the highlights.</div>
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Now I'm starting to evaluate the weighting of the overall piece and where your eye is drawn to. I want it to be drawn more to the face so I try darkening her hair some.</div>
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Now coloring the lines. To do this I move to Photoshop. I create a new Hue and Saturation Adjustment layer and clip it to the ink lines. Then adjust it until I get the color I like.</div>
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Add another adjustment layer with Hue and Saturation, this time for the hair -- it's slightly redder, though not so obvious now. I then create a mask on the adjustment layer so that it's only modifying the hair lines.</div>
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Do the same thing for the shirt. This time it's more obvious. So now I have three Adjustment layers stacked on top of the lines. I go back and forth tweaking the three until they kind of sit well together. The blue's a little too strong in retrospect...</div>
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Adjusting again to shift the focus. I lighten up the window area with a new layer painting white on it.</div>
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Another subtle shift here. The brown body lines leave the mouth too light, so I add another layer and paint in a darker open mouth.</div>
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And a final texture touch. I grab a texture of paper, put it on top, and set it to multiply. Then scale back the opacity until I get a hint of texture on the page. Et voila! The final piece!</div>
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The original rough sketch</div>
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First clean pencils. This one came together pretty quickly.</div>
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And the final pencils. You can see I adjusted the faces and head size and location quite a bit. I was never quite happy with either face, so the final version I tweaked everything.</div>
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I also started painting this as a daytime scene. I can't quite decide which one I like better.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-20812297019762834122013-06-04T00:58:00.000-07:002013-06-04T00:58:09.563-07:00Film FunAnother Trinquette challenge piece.<br />
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The initial sketch was pretty small. Around 2k on a side. I should consider doing this again because it worked pretty well. The nice thing about working lo-res is it forces you to worry about form, not line or detail.</div>
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The first sketch came out pretty quickly based on the forms. At this point I wasn't sure where to take the picture, but after roughly drawing in the shape of her hair, it reminded me of an egyptian headdress, and an idea was born. It's pretty common for me to start a piece, not knowing where it's going to go and have ideas emerge during the sketching.</div>
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This piece was unusual in that I went straight from the rough pencil above to the final painting, blocking out basic color forms and adding painted lines to delineate the edges. Usually I start with much more precise pencils. But this seemed to work out pretty well.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-28209592897709827402013-05-21T09:13:00.001-07:002013-05-21T09:13:23.090-07:00Warrior WomanHere's yet another Trinquette Challenge piece. (http://www.facebook.com/trinquettebooks)<br />
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The final piece (actually this isn't the version submitted):<br />
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This is the version I submitted. After submitting it I realized the colors on her face look really muddy, especially when compressed and reduced.</div>
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And the cleaned up pencils.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-42340868245402091902013-05-08T16:35:00.001-07:002013-05-10T20:14:43.362-07:00Space GirlHere's another space girl from the Trinquette challenge.<br />
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Here's the final:<br />
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The original sketch. I was pretty happy with this.<br />
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The colors changed the flow quite a bit.<br />
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Here's the first pass. Her jaw felt a little too square in this one.<br />
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This was a candidate final:<br />
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Here's a closeup of her face.<br />
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As I stared at this one of the things I realized was that I didn't have enough contrast in my color values. So I took another pass at darkening the skin. I also tried a different background color:<br />
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The background color wasn't quite doing it for me though. It brought out her skin tones nicely, but it also seemed to compete with it. So for the final I went back to the blue.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-63190861756874076242013-04-28T11:57:00.001-07:002013-04-28T11:57:20.318-07:00ReclineHere are some shots from the latest Trinquette Alternate Challenge.<br />
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The final piece.<br />
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The original sketch</div>
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A facebook-safe verison.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-7079807376983639372013-04-21T16:30:00.001-07:002013-04-22T08:31:27.508-07:00Slave (Trinquette Challenge April 20)Just a quickie post here. More details later.<br />
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And here's the Facebook-safe version.</div>
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Here are the finished pencils. I actually like the pencils much better, which suggests this probably needs a repaint/recolor.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-6173957910713621762012-11-19T09:30:00.002-08:002012-11-19T09:30:50.135-08:00Dejah ViewThis is another commission, but I kind of went over the top with it. Unfortunately I forgot to export more in-progress pictures, so you'll have to do with the sketches.<br />
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Here's the final version.<br />
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This is the first rough, just getting basic shapes. I used a photo ref for the base pose.<br />
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I was trying to figure out what to do with her front leg as the pose seems a little unnatural. Though what I was trying to do was even more unnatural. So I just went back to the photo.<br />
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Here I'm trying to clean up her eyes by redrawing from scratch, but they completely lost their character.<br />
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So I went back to the original eyes. Gotta love layers! And added the background.</div>
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The painting was done on about 20 layers. For each element usually a flat color, then various lighting/shading layers on top.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-90060718390672198992012-11-10T00:09:00.000-08:002012-11-10T00:52:52.208-08:00COMMISSION: Lauren and TaraThis was a commission for Aidenke's (http://aidenke.deviantart.com/) characters Lauren and Tara.<br />
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This is the final.<br />
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And a peek at the process. Here's one of the first ideas.<br />
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This one was my favorite. It's both erotic and playful. But Aidenke wanted a side view.<br />
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So this is a pretty late stage sketch side view. For some reason I've been having a lot of problems with profiles lately, so I changed the seated figure's face quite a lot. The girl on top's face came really quickly though.</div>
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At first I started coloring using my standard chalk brushes, but it didn't seem to fit the picture and pencils. The colors ended up looking really messy and too gritty. So I threw them all out and started from scratch with a more comic-book coloring approach. This seemed to work better.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-26999001925997925482012-10-31T09:11:00.002-07:002012-10-31T09:11:18.945-07:00Breakfast at Elvira'sHappy Halloween, folks!<br />
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This one came pretty quickly, but I ended up with a lot of face changes, partly because things just didn't look good.<br />
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This is the original idea, just trying to figure out what pose to use. At this point the Breakfast at Tiffany's idea wasn't in place. But the pose on the left reminded me of the Robert McGinnis poster so...<br />
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A second sketch of the basic pose after finding a puny poster reference.<br />
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And now a little better, with better proportions. Proportions is probably my biggest challenge.<br />
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Here's the first color job. I tried to keep it mostly flat like that poster.<br />
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I really didn't like her face, and the cat tail kind of interfered with the little dagger/cross thing. So I ended up trying a bunch of different tail configurations, settling on this one for it's slightly silly sexy humorous element. Also added the tagline.<br />
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Her nose and mouth just did not read well. It seemed OK large, but when scaled, it kind of fell apart. I believe this is the latest version on Facebook.</div>
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I decided the skin coloring was too dark and making her look dirty, so I reduced the opacity of the layer. Also made her nostrils flare more, which makes her look more like herself.<br />
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And this is a full res version. Zoom it and you can see how the likeness is much better. I suspect the problem is not so much with scaling but with my painting skills...<br />
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He gave me this base pose and proportions:</div>
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This is the first outline based on that. I knew I wanted a creature, but didn't quite know what yet, nor what it looked like. At first, the default was a bunny, then a Stitch-like alien, mostly I wanted someone gleefully doing something. The beaver came out on top for obvious reasons of bad taste. At this point I think I only had the beaver holding on to something...not sure what.<br />
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And then of course, it dawned on me: bra straps are like reins! Here's the final pencils.<br />
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And the first finished colors. It took a while to get the wording right. I knew I wanted some kind of pseudo public service message. At first the sign said "Please don't bring your beaver clothes shopping." and "Keep animals wild. Please dont' feed them." But that seemed too direct and at the same time nonsensical. After trying a number of different approaches, this one seemed most appropriate.</div>
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I thought I was done, but as usual, the small size brought out some issues that I wasn't quite aware of. I had to tweak the contrast a bit to make the shapes pop a little more. Also the black text was disappearing into the gray background.</div>
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And one more color background variation:</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-6558290626674041932012-08-21T00:41:00.001-07:002012-08-21T00:41:18.727-07:00Brisk SummersI was looking for something to draw the other day and Mike DeBalfo suggested drawing one of his Squirrel Girls. <br />
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After browsing through his characters on his DeviantArt site, Brisk Summers seemed to appeal to me most. http://fav.me/d50bsho<br />
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Mike is the master of underboob, so it seemed appropriate to figure out how to get that element in there. Brisk is supposed to be the most athletic of the bunch, so put the two together, and you have a stretching exercise gone voyeur.<br />
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At first I wasn't sure if the tail and ears were "real" or were fake, so I kind of drew the ears fake (because that's how he draws them) and the tail semi-real. This sketch came relatively quickly.<br />
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But the proportions were pretty bad: head was too big, torso too short, legs too skinny, and I had crazy problems with the eye.</div>
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So I spent some time in photoshop scaling pieces to they fit a little better. And in my signature cheat: got rid of one eye.</div>
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I was pretty happy at this point. I was feeling pretty good about the tushie, but the overall piece felt a little too static.</div>
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So when I went to do the color, I rotated her just a tad to make her lean more. I also rotated her upper torso to the left more to give her back and overall form more of a curve.</div>
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It looks a little better now, but the figure seemed too small. She definitely looked better large. Though this might have partly a function of the big fat pencil I was using. Chris Gutierrez suggested a tighter crop, so I did that and leaned her even more.</div>
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I *thought* I was done, but after letting it sit a day, I found that the leggings were really bothering me. I tried cropping it right at where her legs crossed but that didn't feel right. So I leaned her some more, cleaned up the leggings so they didn't grab your attention so much, curved out the tail a little, and gave her more padding at the top (to better match Mike's character).</div>
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Overall I'm pretty happy with it. I think my favorite bit is the highlights on her tush.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-85412212742269291972012-05-09T16:51:00.002-07:002012-05-09T16:51:53.312-07:00COMMISSION: GenieOne more commission. This one was quite a challenge.<br />
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The original sketch was relatively easy. The girl came out nice right away.<br />
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Here's the cleaned up pencils.<br />
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This is pretty far along in the painting process. I put in some lights inside the fortune teller booth, but they were drawing too much attention. Plus the lighting behind her was drawing too much attention, and the overall lighting was wonky.</div>
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It also at this point that I figured out I had a major perspective problem with the booth.<br />
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Getting rid of the lights helped a lot. And here the lighting's getting better. And the perspective is better, still not quite perfect, but good enough. I'm not used to doing this kind of painting in Painter -- it's much more hazardous, where with Photoshop I felt like I could easily and quickly make grand changes, with Painter, that control just wasn't there.</div>
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And for the sake of completeness, a version with a top as requested by the commissioner.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-79627694862229661992012-04-07T15:03:00.005-07:002012-04-07T15:03:44.998-07:00COMMISSION: Belle BaroqueA few progress shots from another commission:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-1975233972846274062012-04-07T15:00:00.002-07:002012-04-07T15:00:45.729-07:00COMMISSION: BurlesqueHere are some process shots from my Burlesque commission.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-26142916963353759962012-03-01T00:26:00.002-08:002012-03-01T00:38:07.269-08:00Marilyn Book PornI came across a really nice photo of Marilyn that I thought would make a good study. At first, I was just gonna draw the figure and just rough out the face, not worrying about likeness.<br />
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But then I couldn't resist at least trying. As usual, I had all kinds of proportion problems. Big head, especially.</div>
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With the exception of the arm angle, the body was actually pretty easy. But her likeness...oy. That took a few hours. Here are a few of the better heads. This was a lot of tweaking, scaling, rotating, redrawing from scratch.</div>
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And the final lines.</div>
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One funny note here: the original reference photo was of a very young Marilyn, with more of a girlish face, but somehow I was not able to capture that and ended up with the more mature Marilyn, perhaps as I pushed it towards her canonical look.</div>
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And at first I wasn't gonna bother coloring, but then I thought what the hell, I've come this far. And this came together surprisingly quickly. Probably less than an hour. It's amazing how much having solid lines helps. Plus, I'm finally finding Painter brushes that I like.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-88104044769662802842012-02-17T10:10:00.000-08:002012-02-17T10:16:12.329-08:00Mars VistaI can draw Dejah Thoris all day...<br />
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This one was relatively quick, which usually means it comes out good. It's the slow pieces that usually suck.<br />
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Anyway, here are some snapshots along the way.<br />
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The first roughs:<br />
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A refined version of the sketch:</div>
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This is the first attempt at painting. Note how the body has changed significantly. It's more apparent at this point also that the foreshortening isn't working. There's no sense of depth.</div>
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Better depth now, but I spent way too much time futzing with her face. I couldn't get it in a natural pose. I kind of like the expression here, but the flow didn't seem right.</div>
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This one has more tension and action to it, but it seems unnatural. That flat side view especially doesn't go well with the flow of the body.</div>
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Here's the final. Rocks have been detailed, the face is now a more natural angle. The overall lighting is more subtle. I erased the hair and started over again. Sometimes it's easier to do it that way to get the shape right.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-59340989145135074432012-02-16T14:57:00.000-08:002012-02-16T20:49:32.524-08:00Book PornSorry, I've been neglecting this site. Too many places to post.<br />
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Anyway, "book porn" is a theme that I'd been wanting to do for a while now, with a bunch of sketches that I'm not all that crazy about.<br />
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But this one, while rough, has legs, so to speak...<br />
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-28709334924333557702011-09-19T13:42:00.000-07:002011-09-20T08:40:38.089-07:00"There you are"Got inspired by a scene from somewhere in the middle of the Game of Thrones novels. I can't even remember which characters these were...but it was some castle in the south with some doomed ladies. And disclaimer: I wasn't trying to be accurate, I just liked the idea of a someone in the bed waiting for you.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-6667468737431713992011-09-06T08:42:00.000-07:002011-09-09T09:03:29.852-07:00Just having some fun with personal stuff.<br />
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I woke up one day needing to draw a baby doll nighty and this is what happened.<br />
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Here are a few shots in progress too. I'll try to add more later if there's interest.<br />
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Here are some more in-progress shots. Roughly in order I think. I was having a lot of trouble with the arms and couldn't find a face that I liked.</div>
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As you can see the final ruffly baby doll was a last minute addition, as was the text.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10037325015877368446noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485186904036189067.post-34632489023369174212011-07-15T00:48:00.000-07:002012-02-26T10:51:01.706-08:00Rosie RevisiterThis was for Mike Malak's book contest on WWII pinups.<br />
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Still working through the iterations, as always...<br />
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The rough idea:<br />
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The first full sketch:<br />
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Starting to put in the flats and a few details:<br />
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A closeup:<br />
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Full figure flats and rendering:<br />
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Almost done now, working on layout.<br />
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Although I resisted at first, i ultimately decided to go with more "normal" proportions. See if you can spot what changed (other than color of the background):<br />
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2012-02-26: Here's the final version that'll go to the publisher. A closeup of her face, slightly adjusted.</div>
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And here's the "final" state...at least until I find something else I want to change...<br />
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