Nearly forgot about this! The first post of New Rising Comic, and the related banner. I still haven’t made any more strips, but there are some planned out in a Mischief document. Made with Mischief and Clip Studio Paint (because I needed to show a friend how to use the program, but I’d never used …
My current WIP. I need to take a break because my chest hurts because I’m coughing too much. Ugh, being sick sucks big time. More practice doing poses and faces etc without actual references. She doesn’t look too twisted, so doing ok I think. Gaby Montegreau is the captain of the Pearl Star. She is …
This was meant to be an outline that I then coloured in, and it turned into a black-and-white drawing instead. Oh well. Parla, heavy use of a reference image I never kept the source of. PaintTool SAI + Wacom Intuos 5.
I’m trying to get Mana (and her sister Parla) from my story right. I drew her and Rahmen a while ago, and I used a reference photo where the girl was Asian. So, because I relied too heavily on the reference image, Mana turned out looking Asian. I decided I liked it, and since then …
Work In Progress: Priya Golaniecki, a character from my story. The jaguar is mostly done now, background to come, then touch-ups. Using ArtRage 4 and my Wacom Bamboo on a MacBook Air.
A character from my story. Practicing doing faces and shading. I know the shading could be smoother especially on her forehead, but I can’t seem to find a blur tool in ArtRage and everything else I did just made it worse lol. Yep, I’m aware that she looks slightly cross-eyed. Not meant to be that …
Used a picture of Jennifer Lawrence as a reference, and I appear to be no good at making enough changes to a reference image to stop it looking like the original person lol. Oh well. Also used a reference image for the fox. So this was meant to be a character of mine, Desiree, and …
Rahmen and Nath, reunited after being parted. Yes, one of my previous pictures showed Rahmen looking all cozy with a woman, but it’s not what you think. You’ll just have to buy the book when I get around to publishing it. Rahm looks older than he’s meant to, but maybe I can say he looks …
So after completely failing in the previous picture, I went and looked for references for a particular scene from my book I had in mind. I found this image here which was pretty much the pose I wanted, flipped it, and used it to get the proportions and pose right. Done in Photoshop CS6 for …
Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Mac, Wacom Intuos 3. No references used = Fail. And Rahmen looks evil. 🙁 I really have no more to say about this one. Sweep under rug.
Completed project of Parla & Alea. Colouring of both ended up a lot paler than is meant to be, but I like it so much I may have to rewrite that in the story. Parla’s hair did not turn out as nice as I would have liked. Hair is not my strong suit. But I …
Further progress on this art. Everything is still a work in progress. Trying to figure out ways of making the cat face look better. I’ve already deviated from the original character description. It is meant to be a black panther, but I think I like it better this way. Tools: ArtRage Studio 3, Wacom Bamboo …
Ok, so Rahmen’s alter ego doesn’t have a name. Must remedy that. I didn’t like the original sketch of this one quite as much so I decided to do a howling wolf instead of a wolf in profile. By description in the series Rahmen is meant to have quite a beak of a nose. I …
The initial sketch for Parla and Alea, in the same style as Mana and Ara. Again, using an old sketch as a reference and improving the proportions and cat face by using reference images for facial structure (for both). I’m currently just doing the outlines of the pictures in this series because I want them …
This is my next project. I wasn’t overly happy with the portrait of Mana I had done, and I came across this old sketch of mine. So I scanned it in, and now I’m doing a picture of how I originally pictured Mana. Updates to come. Using: ArtRage Studio 3, Wacom Bamboo Touch
Ok I have finished this as far as I am going to I think. Not entirely happy with the hair, and don’t even talk to me about the shirt… But I am happier with the face than any of my previous portraits. I am getting more adventurous and ruthless with shading. The eyes, I feel, …
I did some more on the portrait of Parla Sorkany-Lee today. Keep in mind this is a work in progress, and I am aware of the fact that the lips need more work because right now they look like they’re floating above the face. *sigh* I hate lips. But I’m going to have to take …
This one is a Work In Progress (as the title says), and rather than just posting the actual picture as a work in progress, I thought I would post a picture of my workspace, as well. This is the first picture I have done in Photoshop, and I’m doing it on my MacBook Air using …
Mana Sorkany is a character in a story I have been writing since high school. Yes, she is meant to have white hair and silver eyes – it is a fantasy story, and she turns into a white panther. It’s a young adult fiction that I might finish one day. 🙂 Done in MyPaint. Used …