Color was done digitally, as well, though I think I'll do a hand finished one to add to this collection...
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Roderick inked up and colored
Inking is not easy— it's not yet natural for me. Most things I've done get finished by hand or with pencil line, so this was a challenge. That being said, Photoshop helps when you've made a line you're not happy with. There's no command z on paper...
Color was done digitally, as well, though I think I'll do a hand finished one to add to this collection...
Color was done digitally, as well, though I think I'll do a hand finished one to add to this collection...
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lincoln, being good at inking takes as much work as being good at drawing. It takes tons of practice to get those nice thin to thick. Obviously one of the masters is Steve Silver. Study his lines. One thing you can do is to occasionally just draw and sketch with a brushpen. Anyway I think this turned out really great and I love the color/texture on his uniform!
Hi Brad, no doubt about the experience...it's weird I know how I naturally draw and am quite comfortable and free doing it... and I've never had a real call from clients to ink, until now. So it's time to just sketch with the pen— good suggestion!
Stephen's class on this was excellent it's the reason it even came out this reasonable.
Thanks for the kudos on the color and texture. If it's canvas suit, canvas texture helps!
Great job cleaning this guy up and manage to keep the energy. What often happens when you clean up a good sketch, is that you'll make it really stiff. Line quality is really a matter of taste and what kind of design you're aiming to do. The clean line and more graphic shapes, seems to be more important, if you're doing designs for TV, where as feature allows you to stay more rough and gives you more time to do character development. If you look at guys like Peter de Seve and Carter Goodrich, they always stay very rough in their designs.
Good job on the coloring too.
-Hans
Thanks Hans,it was a struggle to ink that. I had to think about the line quality and how I wanted to make a stroke. I don't do that when I draw...
There's a large part of me that gravitates toward feature animation by the inherent nature of the drawings and the design and the research that goes into the characters. But those jobs are far fewer...so i really need to be able to handle anything I can get. I've been familiar with both Peter and Carter's work since art school back in the 90's. I naturally fall more towards them, I think...(natural tendencies don't equal success, though and pain is fear leaving the pen)
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