2016 october-2017 january art spam!
2016 OCTOBER - 2017 JANUARY ART SPAM!
"Of 1990s Beef and participating in a fan project!"
It took forever, but I finally finished...*drum roll*...part 1 of the Juneau side-mission comic for HTMYAW! *cue angelic choir*
Originally, I just wanted to draw one tiny scene from monicawoe’s Juneau fic, but quickly realized the scene needed a setup, so I kinda had to draw the first half of the story for it not to be this random drawing of WS!Bucky judging a Mortal Kombat arcade game. *sighs* The lengths I go to to satisfy an artsy whim. *collapses*
One of my favourite things about moni's writing is how she layers her story elements. I really pushed myself to do the same with this comic. I'm proud of myself for getting half the entire fanfic in only three standard comic pages all while using minimal internal monologue AND without making the panels overly busy.
Anyhoo, here's the comic. Enjoy.
Tumblr post is here. DA post is here. <--- either link is recommended for easy to scroll full-size art.
I briefly thought about drawing the entire fic (and I still might draw the second half someday) but since I worked on this off and on for so long, I just really wanted to post it on the interwebs and be done with it.
I also made things more difficult by deciding partway thru that this comic needed animations. *faceplam* Why do I hate myself so much? I do actually like how it turned out tho, so suffering = worth it…?
Also also, I got somewhat comfortable with the basics of Sketchup thanks to this comic. I built a model of the entire arcade and immediate surrounding area before even starting on the drawings. The drawings still took a FUCKTON of work, but having a template with proper perspective that I didn’t have to calculate myself was a sanity-saver. Seeing how things will look from multiple camera angles before even starting a drawing is just so so soooo nice. <3
Fun fact: that cola vending machine in the last panel has appeared in another artwork of mine from nearly five years ago. I had fun drawing the graphics on it the first time around, so I figured why not use it again. Who knows, maybe I’ll turn the generic cola machine into a thing. Keep an eye out for it in the future, kids, ha ha.
Besides finishing the Juneau comic, I've been a busy bee making two illustrations for the Not Without You Anthology. The Kickstarter is nearly done and is at 750% of it's goal. \o/
I am DYING to post my finished pieces, but I have to wait until the Kickstarter is done, or possibly until after the book is shipped out (can't remember what the agreement was and I'm too lazy to sift thru my emails right now).
I can however share my w.i.p.s, so here are some progress shots for illo 1:
Rough sketch:
Tumblr post is here. This shitty scribble has a ridiculous amount of notes at Tumblr. I really hope the finished version gets this many, but Tumblr is fucking infuriating that way and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it only got half the notes or less. >:C
Finished inks:
Tumblr post is here.
And for illo 2, I couldn't resist teaming up with monicawoe again, so here's the rough sketch of my drawing to accompany her steampunk AU fic:
Tumblr post is here.
Aaaaand a sneaky peek of the finished inks + flat colours on Steampunk!Steeeb:
Tumblr post is here. I am so freakin happy with Bucky's steampunk arm! I can't wait for you guys to see it!!!
That's it for this spam. Thanks for reading! <3 The next spam will have the finished anthology drawings (and hopefully some cyborg-related goodness too *eyebrow waggles*). See you then! :D
Rachel