by popular request and by gracious allowance of Tweak
(And Zeph, because she is so awesomely uber!) im proud to present my new art thread SPECIFICALY for the posting of my works in progress.
here is where i shall post my art as its being made, see my art as it grows..watch my work, keep up to date on commission progresses and inevidabely mabey even learn something yourself from seeing how its made!
i usualy draw in stages...rough shapes, base sketch, clean sketch, inked then the painted product i show you. i think this really shows the creative process to you guys, and lets you mabey improve yoru own style
but this is where ill post those stages (excluding the final product..my first thread is for those)
so to start this thread off ill post a few WIP's that i have from prior commissions that i was yet to delete
here is my general base right after i did all the shapes and layout of where i wanted everything. you can sorta see the characters and a little of there "to be" details. this is where i plan everything from facial features, expressions, outfits and hairstyles
here is the clean sketch..i go through all my lines and pick the ones i want to keep for the final product and go over them with harder strokes so that they stand out more. be careful which ones you choose!
and now here is the last stage before i paint, i take all those sketch lines and carefuly ink over them all..some requires a ball pen and some requires a fine tipped .25 pen to get those little details, such as eyes..furr texture lines ext.
here is the last couple pic i posted erlier..a rather lovely one at that
a few stages here are missing, as i deleted them...>< but now i have a place for them, i shall be keeping them and putting em here for all to see, and with each update ill include a short detailing as to how i did it, and little tips and tricks.
once again, not all the stages..but still good to post
this one was DIFFICULT..it was a awquard pose at first and i had to play around with it alot..but in the end it really payed off his hand show was alot of difficulty for me as i couldnt get it to "press" the ground right
here there is more definition..and im getting a better grasp on how fluffy and long i want the tail..its a racoon tail so its very wide like a snowleopards would be, but with not as much length to it as coon tails are much shorter
Post Merge: June 04, 2011, 09:05:36 PM
oops...almost forgot this one
alright..here i got a little more detailed on the hoodie as this was a point of frusteration for me (i hate clothes lol) so i got fairly far in this before i thought to scan it >> but here is alot of really good shapes and base. notice how i do my feet before hand..i mark where the soles of the feet will be so i can come out with a MUCH better angle when i go to actualy finish the picture.
here is my finished sketch..there were a few parts here that i didnt solidify, but the reasoning was that i already knew exactly where i wanted my inked lines and find that its alright to not harden ALL your lines if your first initial stroke was the right one.
here is the lineart for this peice. you may notice that some lines i didnt ink at all, and left it as pencil line when i do this..its because i dont WANT there to be hard lines there, but i still wish to keep the guidline of where im painting at. so i can remember where the white parts start and the orange begin. not all lines need to be inked. painted version to later be posted in my other thread
