Girl From "Three-Group"

Alrite team! GK here with an update. It's great to be posting! Exclamation point!

So today we have 'Girl' from "Three-Group", my early in dev tale of 3 ninjas traveling together in a group...of 3. This started out as a sketch while chilling at a friend's house and evolved into this. I'd say total, about 10 hours from sketch to ink to color.... But that's a really bad estimate, because it doesn't take into account that it was me working over a few days and then the few breaks I did or didn't take. It may have been much more than 10 hours....But however long it was, most of it had me listening to this AWESOME snakeman remix on OCRemix.org. That thing SLAPPED sooooo hard. My neighbors must've thought I was having a serious rave or something (well, there was that, and there was Reach and Sound of Melodies by Leeland...they rock so hard!). Anyway, from .5mm led pencil on printer paper, to Photoshop CS4 for lines and color on my 'Tiq.

I'd say if there was an objective for this one, it'd have to have been to have a nice flow of the lines of her body. I used my arm a lot in this one; not too much wrist action and noodling in that way.

Well, how are you guys planning on spending the holidays? I'll be jamming on up to northern california, and so hopefully I can still post some sketches or other stuff for the little while i'm there. Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!


Enjoy,
-GK

BattleMaster

-A master of paths 1 through 77 of the 8.743x10^14 paths of battle, BattleMaster roars with the fury of a thousand warriors! Or rather, 77. I did this to test out my new gear. Sketch with .5mm lead pencil on printer paper, scanned with a Lide200F and then cleaned up and colored in CS4 with Cintiq.
Anyway, I'm gearing up for some awesome stuff, so stay tuned. BATTLE ON!

Enjoy,
-GK

Now you can tell.

Red Lion, colored.
Time: about 2 hours to draw, about 2 hours to ink, about 1 hour to color.
Tools: Pentel GeForce .5mm lead pencil, Canon Lide 20 scanner, Photoshop 6.0, Wacom Graphire 4, Anime Music via WinAmp Classic, Chapstick.

So yeah, I've been drawing quite a bit, but mostly scraps and sketches. I decided i'd do something nice and finished for an "it's been a while..." update. This was a pretty smooth one to do. No real hiccups or problems, as now I think I've a groove. It also seems to go best when I go from paper to digital. Yeah. Fun times.

Enjoy,

-GK

You can't really tell that he's red...

Color version coming later!

Enjoy,

-GK

Chain Story (I)

Messing with inking again. This is a character for my friend's project. Drawn, inked and colored in photoshop 6 in about 3-ish hours.

I'm tired...


Enjoy,
-GK

Dance With Me

So still practicing with what I learned about the digital workflow from that video I watched. This was drawn, inked and colored in Photoshop 6.0, the dinosaur that it is. I used my Graphire 4 tablet and a hard-round brush with the paintbrush tool to rough it out and ink it. Then I used channels to make a clean line layer (thanks to Snakebite's tips and oldschool Polykarbon), selected off of that and paintbucket filled/brush for shadows and hi-lights.

This took around 4 hours. I was doing a bunch of sketches on paper and not really happy with what was coming out. So, I decided to just do something finished in photoshop.

This is the main character from an upcoming project. I kind-of made him a bit too old in this picture, but I'm still working out getting him on model perfectly and whatnot. This image was a nice bit of practice. I'm starting to get more comfortable with working all digitally, though pencil and paper is never going to go away. This was a nice exercise. Still have more to go, but this'll do for now.

So, dance with me?

Enjoy,
-GK

SKB Ink Test

Hey there everyone.

Hope everything's well with you all. Things are cool on my end. Getting back into a flow and ramping up to finish a short comic project. In preparation for that, I watched a helpful video on some digital inking techniques by Scott Kurtz from PVP (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2024758) and made this image to test some stuff out.

Drawing purely digital takes a lot of getting used to. I usually do stuff on paper and then scan it in, clean it up, and then work with it. After watching the video, I was able to think of strategies that would work for me to get a digital workflow going. Scott's tip about roughing on one layer and then inking on a second, in addition to rough color choice and working at a high DPI were all common sense things that completely slipped my awareness. Seeing it in action gave me practical ways to make work work.

So anyway, a SKB pic. Skellobuster, and his mighty hand of might, as he leaps forward annihilatingly to devastate his foes. Annihilatingly is a cool word. Anyway, more art throughout the week.

Enjoy,
-GK