Progress?
Added 2015-08-16 07:34:55 +0000 UTC1. Practice
2. ???
3. Profit!
I've been all over the fucking place recently (in regards to my art). I really want to figure out a method that's true to my style, looks good, and is easy to do. So far, I haven't had much luck figuring that out. For a good while know I've been basing my art around super crisp line-arts, which makes putting flat colors in super easy because it can literally be done with the click of a button, BUT the entire midrange of the project will look like shit and it won't look good again until I do a LOT of shading and a LOT of correcting.
For this comic (in progress) I'm something a little more old school. I'm making a finished, roughed out, cool looking work of black-and-white rendered art (the kind you would make with a pencil in a sketch book, and then trying to figure out colors from there using multiply, overly, and normal touch up layers. Although I'm happy with the way the lineart is looking this is NOT that method I'm use to, and I'm just hoping I don't crash and burn, especially after such a decent start.
I jsut want to find some sort of constant way of doing things the quality of my art looks the same across the board.
Thoughts? Advice? Criticism? Rants? If you aren't comfortable commenting here you can always email me.
Comments
Thanks. I totally agree that as a lineart the aesthetics of this style are much more attractive. If I was ever going to submit a black-and-white sketch, or make a manga or something this is what I'd stick to. The problem comes in the the next stage: coloring. Coloring a simple lineart simply offers more freedom. With this, it gets really hard to stay in control of everything and not accidentally mess up half way through.
2015-08-16 12:37:07 +0000 UTCIn terms of sheer line art, this is a marked improvement above some of your other works we've been seeing. Hell, just the lines make me want to commission a picture or something from you.
Greg
2015-08-16 12:16:45 +0000 UTCCriticism? I have not seen Mark fucking Cadence in a while, i think she is being neglected. Oh you meant about the art, in the end the most important thing is what you feel comfortable, if you use new methods that you are not used but you enjoy you will have to work until you are used to them. I think you have made good advance with your experiments on style, so once you find the one you like best practice until you made it your own. ^^
Ace
2015-08-16 08:16:37 +0000 UTC
