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Fun And Games In Iraq! Critiques please...
maxcavsm:
Oh, he's a character, all right.
This is a pic of me after I graduated Airborne school. I penciled the picture a few weeks ago.
I guess the concept sketches for my webcomic characters are more "posed" because I was doing that on purpose, as opposed to recreating a picture of myself. And yes, there is no shadow layer here because I'm not exactly sure how to do that in Photoshop. I'm planning on working on that for next weekend (or so I've been told by my "instructor").
Thank you for your kind words on my concept sketches. I haven't seen your drawings, but I'm sure they are fine!
maxcavsm:
From April 30:
Well, drawing by pencil may take a lot longer, but I'm certainly liking the results. This pic iis of the fourth and final of my "South Park" four.
This is Ski, Mac's roommate. He's the team...drunk. Well, everyone's got to have a hobby, right? But yes, Ski is a bit of a party animal and a lunatic.
I think I've got a solid lineup here. Time to start putting them in weird and wild situations!
And I do have the obligatory female for the group; as in the webcomic credo, there must be a woman (or six...or all hot lesbians...I'm not sure, but there certainly is a trend). I've got her designed, now I just need to sketch her out. Should be interesting...
With each one of these drawings, I get more and more happy with the results. With this last one? I think I've made a lot of headway.
maxcavsm:
Well, woke up this morning and thought all day about how I needed a group photo of the guys of them all interacting with each other. So, when I got home from work, I went right BACK to work. The drawing took me about, dunno, 3 hours? I know, long time, but them's the breaks, especially while I'm still working out the characters; draw two lines, erase one, etc.
The inking went REALLY well. Did the whole thing in a half hour, then took another fifteen minutes to figure out how to resize it from 20x20 to something normal sized without it distorting.
Well, looks like tomorrow, I'm going to attempt to color this mess. Which should be about as much fun as a knife to the eye, but I guess we'll take it one step at a time. Hell, I'm finding new photoshop tricks and tools every time I fire it up, so...
I'd keep going, but it's "Lost" time. So time's up
maxcavsm:
Okay, this is such a pain in the ass, I'm wondering if I'm going to bother coloring these things at all.
Okay, yeah, I probably will.
HAHA! 1st of the 337 Infantry Brigade? Lol. The shirt read "1337" yesterday, and I had been meaning to make the guys a part of 1st of the 333rd Infantry Brigade (Triple Three Infantry)...and then I looked at both Mikey's and Ezra's shirts.
All I need to do is add a hyphen between the 1 and the 337, and voila. Sneaky video game reference in the birth of a new infantry brigade. That's good stuff.
Anyway, I'm sure coloring is a lot easier than I'm making it, but it's taking work. I could have been drawing tonight, as opposed to spending the hour dinking around with Photoshop Elements.
But anyway, here are the results:
I've been having trouble with the damnable "magic wand" tool. Most of the time (right now, about 75%), I"m able to fill in the item I want colored properly. The rest of it highlights the rest of the screen or all kinds of random line art. So I'm forced to use the magnetic lasso...which isn't bad, but...
And then what about Ski (far left) and his shirt? It's a black long sleeve with a grey or white Airborne logo over the heart area, but when I had to use the lasso, it washed right over it. Now I can't really use the lasso to "unmark" the Airborne wings...not exactly sure how to bring the white/grey out over it without creating a new layer and drawing white ON the black.
maxcavsm:
Anyway, have been on a WoW kick for the last few days, so I laid off the drawing until this morning. Then decided that I'm just a little too chicken shit to actually start sketching out cartoons yet, so I decided to work on something a little less daunting.
Middle Eastern Insurgent head wraps!
Yeah, and let me tell you, that wasn't a lot of fun. Trying to draw clothing on a person is hard enough, but trying to draw it wrapped around someone's head a dozen times with wrinkles, folds and those annoying checker tablecloths...anyway:
I was about ready to cop out (and still might) and use the "Sam and Fuzzy" ninja-mafia look, but...I dunno. Wanted to do my own thing, I guess.
They just don't look quite right. I'm sure a lot of it is coloring, shading, etc. I dunno. Just not a great day with the ol' sketch pad. But then again, my hands and feet used to suck, and now they're passable.
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