artyness!
Well, I started scanning art from my art notebooks, so I could make sure I had all the concept art for my fanchars. I seem to be missing a few. A guess some have gotten lost over the years. Thank goodness I kept the (paper) hardcopies.
I also got to work on the comic scans section of the site. I've been meaning to ass the newest additions, but didn't get to do it till things panned out with hosting. Yes, that's what I've been working on. *grin* They're still not all up yet. I'm working on it, though. It's all in a gallery layout, and instead of just having spotlight Hot Rod, Soundwave, Sixshot, and... whoever else it was I did my own scans of, (I borrowed them from the library and scanned the pages on my flatbed scanner). I now have several. I think there are about eight of them. So far three are up: Galvatron, Hot Rod, and Blaster.
I was renaming the pages for Spotlight: Kup (because once uploaded, the file name becomes the page title), and noticed some skibbles from the comic. Lireally, skibbles. The sort of thing I'd NEVER be happy with myself for. A lot of random pencil lines and rough shading, which used angled lines and X'es for shading instead of penciled shading like I like to do. Then it hit me. The reason why I've been having so much trouble drawing my fancharacters is that I'm using a geometric principal, measuring lines andmaking sure every detail is properly shaded and straight. I've been going into too much detail, essentially.
So, I realised, the pros do "skibbles" to get the gist of a character, then clean it up after it's scanned onto the computer. As an excersise, I drew a line around my hand, and produced this:
It's kinda supposed to be one of my characters that is rather spiky, but the scanner kind of K.O.ed my shading. *sigh* The character (I suppse) has not-so-claws (?) they're actually supposed to look more like a boxcutter ring, placed at the junction near the end of the finger. Unfortunately, hurrying made my art get away from me a bit.
I suddenly realised I can do a lot with this method. And once properly srunken, it doesn't really look that bad. Well, if I kind of tilt my head and shut one eye while squinting the other. *shrug*. I dunno. I suppose both methods have their merits, but doing geometric-vector art with a pencil has just gotten really hard. I drew a second pic after the one of Fenicius, but I haven't finished cleaning it up. I have to computer-line (computer-darken lines) the pic before uploading it. The perspective on it is terrible.
I think I'll stick to the "skibbly method" like my hand. I may get Demitrius drawn yet. Bwah! I have the.... I think I'll just stick to calling it the geometry method. I really don't know what to call it. Anyway, I have that sort of art of Demitrius, hand drawn lines, scanned, relined, cleaned up, colored and shaded on the computer. I did the spiky wings by hand and tried to scan/reline them, they came out awful at first. I had to combine both concepts and add them to the seeker-esque wings on the chara.
Problem is, he's darkly colored, he's spiky yet not (I suppose he's one of those character that only appears ghostlike, and the cross between seeker wings and pointy... whatever those are is kind of fluctuating... I can neverfind a happy medium between the two. *sigh*. It's hard to peg him down in my headspace long enough to draw him. He just "whisps" on me. guh.
Well, anyway, I'm going to go get more comic scans uploaded.
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