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