Not the next page, nor the one after that, but the one after that (page 25) won't be too exciting visually (but I feel it's what's best for the story.)
So I'll guess I'll draw a little something extra to fill my DiD quota at around the same time. Something rough. It might be a good chance to experiment.
So, who shall suffer my DiD fascination when that time comes?
Oh right. it was supposed to be raining, wasn't it?
Another thing for me fix up later, I suppose.
I don't know if I've made that clear: Once all the pages are out, I'll take some time to go back over them and making the style more consistent, as well as fix up and errors like forgetting the rain. Then the full download will be put up (Patrons will get linked to it obviously)
I think this is a better stroke weight. It got a little chunky looking on page 21. Next I think I need ...
2021-10-04 00:36:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I need to study artists like Jim Lee. My lines have become too thick.
2021-09-19 08:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Not quite as pleased with how the colours came out on this one. The last panel looks good but the other panels don't convey much depth I think.
I think I need to more conscious of light direction when choosing line thickness.
Hangman. Friendo. I can't help but feel you're at least partially responsible for this turn of events...
Sorry, once again, I'll get the gag variants up next. It's a surprising amount of extra work : S
But I am so very pleased with how this one came out. I've starting to feel comfortable with the Cut & Grad technique now.
edit: the gag variants are in! And I fixed up the missing ropes in panel 2 as some pointed out.
2021-08-30 12:08:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh I never want to be without my tablet for that long ever again. Lordy!
Only just as I went to upload this did I remember about the gag variants... so err... I guess I'll update the post with this tomorrow.
I'm feeling a bit better about my selection areas with the cut & grad technique, but some of the colour choices are a bit dark. I need to be more daring with the highlights.
AAAAAAAH! I got my tablet baaaaaaack : )))))))))))))))))))
Thank god. The cut & grad technique on non-screen tablet was impossible.
So I asked if people would like to see in progress images of each new page. Most (if a very small pool, mind...) said they liked the surprise of each new page all at once. So this is just a temporary MO while I'm stuck with the slow down of reduced hand-eye coordination while my Cintiq is being repaired - it's a $3000 piece of premium space tech from the future, I expect the legs to not snap off after only unfolding them half a dozen time in two years! You can't put "Pro" in the name ...
2021-07-26 13:03:55 +0000 UTC View PostEesh. Drawing on a screenless tablet is... different.
This is going to be slower. But I'll stay at it.
I wonder though, just to give me something to think about in terms of how I run this patreon, do people want in progress updates? Or do you prefer to see each new page only when it's finished?
Never mind.
A friend from work has a 16inch wacom they don't use much that they can lend me while I'm sorting mine out.
I won't have it until Tuesday, but I can keep drawing.
Good thing too. It's probably going to take me like two months to get mine shipped to and from the repair place, assuming they'll take it at all...
So... My cintiq just broke.
I was moving it out of the ergo stand, had the tablet on its face, on my bed, went to unfold the legs and they both just snapped off. As in separately. One after the other.
I must have folded/unfolded the legs a total of four or five times in its entire life.
Now there are loose bits making a crunchy sound whenever I try to move the tablet, rattling around somewhere inside.
Needless to say I am spiced.
I've just entered the process o...
Boy, this cut & grad technique a bit more labour intensive. I'm not the best at it, but as long as I'm feeling improvement. Check out the download attachments bellow for the gagg variants. But I know tape will always be my fave.
Little bit of a wait on this next page.
It is the gagging page and it must be PERFECT!
Plus it's when I'm going to start drawing gag variants. Normally that won't mean much additional work, but it does for the actual gagging. You can't exactly just smush a wrap around gag into someone's face like you would a piece of tape after all.
I am determined to leave that cell shaded look behind and finally overcome by aversion to the cut and grad technique. The colours are a bit all over the place in this one. I was trying a Marte Gracia thing. His colours look so vibrant because there's actually a lot of grey in his work to contrast it. But it's a fine line to walk. Easy to get muddy colours if you do it wrong.
I think I did... better than I normally would when attempting something like that.
I need a lot of practice thoug...
Ah, memories.
Hey, here's a question. Did anyone else have this experience? So that scene in Spider-Woman issue #4, in 197... something - when Spider-Woman is doing battle with Brother Grimm and then she's snagged by Hangman - I always read Hangman as talking to Spider-Woman when talking about all the evil she had done, which confused me when he then talked about saving and protecting her.
It took years for me to realise he was talking to Brother Grimm with all that "Scum! Villain!" stu...
Argh. I broke my weekly streak with this one.
Oh well. I could tell you all about how my workplace is overworking me and I'm sick of it, but you know - that's not your problem.
Woah, hey! It looks like Hangman caught himself a big one!
No, the beard isn't permanent.
I wish I'd pushed the poses a little more. Now that I notice it looks like Hangman is looking towards the viewer I can't unsee it.
God. I wonder who it could be.
Do you think it's like... The Green Goblin or someone?
Or his brother, the Breen Boblin? Or his cousin, the Meen Moblin?
Yeah. It's probably one of them.
Anyway, last page was for people who like sudden, surprise bondage (people like... me) so here's one for those in the audience who like seeing the damsel in the process of getting bound.
We're finally here! Oh, joyous day!
I really want to thank everybody for their patience. Apart from the odd page here and there, Jess is going to stay pretty much perpetually bound, so now is when the fun certainly begins.
We did it, people!
Ooooooh! Next page, people! Next paaaaaage!
I really like how the colours came out with this one. I've been in an awkward place in between wanting things to look multi-coloured and real, but also sort of abstract and drenched in the average colour of the environment.
They're two separate methods and half of colouring for me is knowing when to switch between them. When do you disobey how light works to make an important element stand out, etc.
I think it helps knowing when not to ...
To know her is to fear her!!
Sorry about the wait for this one. I've been so exhausted lately.
...I hate my job...
omg, guys. We're getting cloooose.
Heck, even I'm looking forward to no longer having to draw Spider-Woman all free and unbound and stuff. Who needs that?
Looking at Dave Stewart's colouring work on Tim Sale's art is a good reminder that not everything needs to be rendered, especially in dark scene with lots of black fill like this.
It's weird. Sale's art is the kind I'd have historically turned my nose up at. Like "For real? This guy is considered one of the greats? Why? Everything's so rough! The colours are so flat!"
And for sure there is the odd page where I feel like "Okay... that clearly needed a little more work" but maybe as I've ...
I've always liked how the drawing looks when you turn off the line layer and are just left with the fill.
It's not a style conducive to the content I like to make, but still.
Has anyone read any Tim Sale stuff? If you've not heard of him, visually he's like Frank Miller if Frank Miller was all that.
The draftsmanship is often quite rough, but darned if it doesn't come together in a way that sings. Catwoman: When in Rome is exquisite.
Anyway. I should have the next page up...
The next couple of pages might take me a tiny bit longer.
They're mostly Spider-Woman kicking some butt (enjoy it Jess, it will be your last jolly for a while)
The thing is... I'm bad at drawing kinetic action sequences. But I'm determined to do better than usual, so do excuse me as I take a little more time to get it right this time.
See, this is why I chose to charge by page and not be month...
Ooooooh, it's happening!
Off you go Jess, I'm sure only good things await you out there!
Kept the colouring a little simpler with this one. I observed that in styles like with The Evil That Men Do, the rendering cells don't even conform all that much to the shape of the surface. Just a little placement is needed for the mind to sort out the shape on its own it seems.
2021-04-12 22:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I've become a bit more conscious of negative space in my pages. page 7 had a bit too much of it. The streets could have used a but more texture. I'm typically afraid of making things too cluttered, but when I looked through my DA gallery and asked why the better pages were better, it often came down to density. I need to zoom in a little more, and be less afraid of cramming more into a page. Busier line art will mean more pressure to draw the eye to important spots using colour.
2021-04-05 05:19:52 +0000 UTC View Post
You know I was reading Betty vs Veronica illustrated by the legendary Adam Hughs (I have complex feelings about how he draws facial expressions...) and I liked how whatever the two leads were wearing Betty had sort of a blue motif going on, and Veronica a red.
I had initially planned to do the same with Jessica. Always having her outfit accentuated by red elements. But I also really wanted this to be a late afternoon scene, with very warm colours. And in an effort to draw one's eye to Jess...
I can feel coming a bit more easily now. Picking the right colours. Understanding how the local colour and the light effect each other.
I've not drawn Batgirl before. I don't know why. I like her plenty.
She's such a good-girl type. Her peril carries a unique flavour.
I want to do a little light and shadow study on face planes. Plus a gag of course... What? That won't disturb the face planes!
Who's it to be?
