Screen Shot WIP

I'm working on it, I'm working on it, albeit slowly but I'm working on it. And just to show that, I decided to take a screenshot of what I'm messing around with. What I didn't realize is that doing so actually captures both screens so now you get to see what goes on in the second screen. Just some music and visualizations right now. I'm thinking of making both screens show the same thing so I can make sure the colors I'm using jive with different screens.



I gotta ask though, how do the tones on Shade look? Too dark, dark enough, too light? I'm just not sure myself. Looks fine to me so far. Decided to go with a night time look with a green atmosphere since I figured that's the time these creatures are most active. Might add even more to this drawing and make it more active.
Main thing you'll notice is the 25 Essential Expressions of Shade. I did one already of Shadow and now I'm doing one for her sister. I'll be putting in even more details this go round as well, even including 5 different sets of outfits. Although I'm not sure about what the last 3 will be. Maybe I'll draw her in her armor? Well that's three down, two to go. I'll figure it out.

Oooh, the second screen. I've been listening to Gorillaz again. Got a new CD called D sides. Two CD set that has, in my personal opinion, some really great music. The second CD is remix tracks from their D---Days CD but it's mostly just remixes of two songs, Kids with Guns and Dare. I swear, there are at least 3 different versions of each. The first song and last song on the CD I don't care for at all but everything else jives with me rather well.

Welp, that's it for this blog post. Figured I was due for another one and next time I have more works in progress I'll post again. Perhaps something... titillating. We'll see.

Hello childerens

Another post for another wip.



Colors are not indicative of final choices. Just place holders for the time being. I know I need to fade colors into the background and the lines will follow suit. Perhaps I'll just forgo the lines all together and paint the background without them. That might be the way to go honestly. But if I do that, then the lines on Shade probably would have to go as well. We'll see how things go. I might have to rethink my whole strategy on coloring.

I saw this really neat drawing that gave me an idea on how to do backgrounds the way I want to do them. Start off with a darker color sillouet of what you want, then build up on that with layers of details. It's hard to describe but it makes me want to practice.

Nothing big

No new art to showcase or anything, but saw a new app that links to Devart that I had to add on here. Seems relatively new. Check it out, I have it set up to show 5 of the latest devs I have. I was trying to think of a way to showcase more art on my blog and voila, there you have it. I should post a wip I'm working on later today. Maybe get some helpful tips out there from anyone in the know. I'm trying to do a foggy background but my background skills are reeeeeeeally lacking. Anyway, I'll show that later and catch y'all on the flip side.

Continuing the previews.

So enough with the secritive stuff, I might as well show you the layout of what I'm working on. I've got the flats on 3 of the 5 girls, TaoKaka being the one with the least amount of layers.



Now do tell me what you think so far. Anything I can fix isn't too far out of the question. I'm thinking of fixing up Miss Lichie a little more, the girl on the far left of us. Somthing about her hair/head is bothersome. All the girls are on their own layer so I'll probably color them all, submit that and have a blog exclusive showing off each girl individually. Well, exclusive for awhile, like maybe a week or so before I post it on devart as scraps.

Last Lineart Preview of BlazBlue

Okay, here's the last preview of the lines. I may show a WIP of the colors once I get all the flats down. Then you can see the whole composition of my drawing. Not like I really have a reason to hide it or anything. But these are just fun preview images anyway. Just ment to tease and tantalize.

Note about this drawing, I've already fixed up the hair as well as the ribbon. Not that there's anything wrong with the ribben persay, just fixed it up is all. The problem with the hair was that the split down the middle wasn't down the middle according to her eyes.

I must say, Little Miss Alucard has been one of the funner characters to draw. Maybe because I'm not needing to redo the lines a ton of times like I've done with the others. Anyway, enjoy and comment as you wish.

Oh and I just figured out how to make all my images clickable. haha, oh you blogger you. You and your silly little ways.

More teasing

Alright, so I got the lines for Noel Vermillion done and now it's onto the next girl on the list. Here's a preview for the lines on V-13, the sexy cybernetic android of the BlazBlue world.



Please do let me know what you think so far. I do enjoy C&C, even on the nasty sketch underneith. Most of the design is going to be changed but thats just a placeholder for the final lines anyway.

BlazBlue Teaser

Hey guys! Another update from me showing off a teaser image of a BlazBlue inspired fanart. I've gotten all the layout ready and now I'm putting down the final lines. There will be all 5 of the girls in this image thats for the SRK artbook thing going on. Just for fun, sure, but you know what? I want to do something amazing and show off my skill with my new Cintiq. Tell me what you guys think so far. More teasers will pop up as I go on with the drawing so this is the first.

Just in case you want the stats, right now this image is just about 4x5 or something at 200 DPI. The real drawing is 400 DPI at a full 8.5 x 11 and I'm using a size 4 brush for the lines. Because of the size, I might have to go back and thicken up some of the lines. But I'll figure that out when I get to it.

And yes, I get a boner for detail. Thats why I spent 2 or more hours on just this..... dude... I seriously need to get faster at drawing. At least it looks good, right? ..... :( Right? The poses and sketch drawing took only two days and a couple hours a piece... but thats because I drew is slight detail each character's clothes. Faces are easy, but getting all that detail right in their clothes isn't.