High hopes

Oh man, have I been busy! I'm finished with school and am

now looking forward to whatever comes next. That, however,

has nothing to do with this. I just wanted to try this style out.

For those of you who don't know, there's a rule of thirds that

comes into designing... pretty much everything. The

red lines help me graph my page so that I can be sure

it follows well while I color.

For shading, it's best to stay away from black. Same

goes for lighting and white. Just use complementary

colors and contrasts for a real popping sensation.

Then set it to multiply because it looks weird.

This is trickier. The same rules I just explained before

are done here but in a smaller, more tedious fashion. You

just have to feel out where which color goes (its best

to look at the light source for what goes where).

Also, cloud. Enjoy.

Then I threw on some home-made lense flare, added

a light gradient over the whole thing and some text

and viola! The whole thing!

Lastly, the comic is kinda on hiatus for a bit while

I look for another tablet. Having graduated from school

I don't have access to the best of tech at the moment.

That may change in 2 weeks, but we'll see!

The Battle

This is a pretty intense scene that I couldn't help but finish and share.

The outline I had was pretty rough. And I wasn't

entirely sold on the idea of an eye... cannon... thing.

Once I started the actual linework I noticed

that the creature is a blob, and as such cannot have

black outlines (unless it was tar)

Once I did the linework I kinda knew that red was going to be the theme

color of this piece so I complemented it as best I could.

The glowing effects from the lava slime was essential.

It helps sell the hopeless look on the young hero's face.

Heh...

And then I added some color passes under a soft light

layer just to make it all pop just a little more!

I hope this guy lives.... but maybe not.

Rolling Hills Animation

I just realized I never uploaded the video of

the Rolling hills for you all to see!

Well, this is it basically! I had to butcher

this character's color for now and there's no sound.

Still, I'm happy with how this came out.

Aegis Canyon

Trying to get back into the swing of backgrounds!

So, I started with some cylinders (simple shapes

are working better for me).

Then I took my time and detailed everything I saw

along my vanishing point.

I don't intend on keeping the outlines, but

I needed to go over the base sketch again

to make sure I want to keep it all. Adding at least

this base white color  helps me layer each part

of the piece in place.

After removing the lines I don't want, I blend

the lines I kept into the now added color and gradients

by makling it a soft light and viola! The

yellowest canyon road you'll ever see!

Rolling Hills background

This is the next [piece I've decided to animate.

I always start with a rough, general idea

for how I want this to end.

And then ed up with something like this after

outlines, adding texture effect and all that jazz.

I'm not going to show my entire process

this time, as I'm going to animate this scene!

There's a lot of parts to move, and I

assume when I'm done I'll post it here.

Green Forest

Finishing old sketches I had centuries ago (not really).

This is something like practice so I don't lose

my style.

This was the sketch. It's actually about

a semester or two old, really. And yes,

the sword is actually supposed to be that big.

Then the outlines. I decided to keep

the bird there against my

better judgement.

Added a few accent lines so hat there

is a texture to the things that need it.

The hard part was color surprisingly. I only

wanted varying types of green, yellow-green and blue-green

(this does include the sword), and it couldn't blend in. So it took 

a while to get this exactly like I wanted.

And then I topped it all off with some tonal swipes

with a paint brush tool. For depth reasons.

Mondays Old Guy

Last quarter took up so much time I had nearly zero time for personal projects, 

which was no good.

So hopefully this grumpy title card makes up for it.

I had a sketch at the end of the quarter that I couldn't work on

until this quarter started so I decided to work on it.

Stuck to the basics, outline is first for my style.

I added the color and water from my drawing and noticed

how bland the background was and threw a 

bleak city in the background. I pushed the age

in his features with age lines, too!

Then I added some color to the background and thought "this is good"...

... but barring it off will make it look better! 

Less space means more tension and in this case I'd

say it works better this way.

Then I figure I'd title it and call it a day. The title was

a lot lower, but it blended too much, what with 

all the blue... everywhere. So, enjoy.

Underwater

I've been REALLY busy this quarter with animations- 

so much that I've had to halt my personal projects 

(thoughI did manage to finish one of them). 

But in my workings I learned the awesomeness of ocean 

colors and decided to do a few backgrounds for it.

Lighting helps to establish a time of day,

especially underwater where there's no sky.

 

Icy hues may suggests seasonal changes as well!

I may do an ocean animation if I get time off

at some point (so never, basically).

The bus ride project

I COULD be working on still art at the moment, but I'm

working on an animation at the moment, so, yeah.

My time's devoted to this guy at the moment.

The DJ Pad

This one took a little longer than the others,

but it was worth it to get that "string bean"

limb kinda style!

As usual, I started out with my initial paper sketch...

Then I began the line work.

I jumped the gun on the colors so I can get

a feel for how I want the room.

Then I dropped the base colors on everything and

removed the outlines (because I REALLY like it this way),

but that wall corner stayed to show the bridge

between the far and left wall

Whilst the wall thing worked, it being the only line made it

stand out too much, so I added detail lines to everything

to show what texture was what.

And as a final tough added lighting.

By the way, I'm getting into the stringy limb thing a lot so

I may pick this up once I finish my current animation.

Redisign #2

I was having so much fun over the break redesigning some characters

I even went back and redesigned my first one... again! Really

liking the lineless look so far, but I'll see how long that lasts.

Sub-main character

Welp, I finished a second one and realized: these two

would go great on the same page! So I spliced

them together. They are the same character, but

at two separate points in my cruel, cruel plot system.

Character stuff

Welp, it's been almost a month, but it's back to work now.

Even though I was technically on a break, I did a lot

of character design sketch work over December. I may finish all

of them, but I had to finish this guy first! He's a redesign of

a prior character I'd made about a year ago!