fanart, Junkie!Roy

[ratcreature]

Fandom: DCU (Green Arrow)
Characters/Pairings: Roy Harper (back when he was Speedy)
Media used: Wacom tablet in GIMP
Rating/warnings: PG, I guess, for drug use
Notes/comments: This took me a really long time, and I don't just mean that I first had the idea for this in 2006. I have no idea what I am doing wrong that digital coloring takes me so long

Comments

[girlwithoutfear]

Really nice job! I haven't gotten very proficient with the Wacom yet. Must. Practice. More.

Time for you to do another DD fan art. Hint, hint.

[ratcreature]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. Unfortunately I don't have a really nice Wacom, like an Intuos, but merely a cheap one. On the bright side it's not that awful that my rats chewed threw the cable messing it up (I fixed it with copious amount of tape holding the cable strands together, but it's never been quite the same.)

And I'm afraid my next fanart will be SGA because I was foolish enough to sign up for a fanart challenge. (*due in a little over a week. meeep!*) But I really like Matt, so there might be more DD fanart eventually, I'm just really slow when it comes to realizing fanart ideas.

[rubynye]

Oh, Roy. That's a picture full of pain. *applauds you, smudging a tear away*

[ratcreature]

Thank you! And yeah, it's a bit bleak, but we all know he got through his addiction at least.

[petronelle]

This is beautifully drawn and the subject matter makes me hide my eyes too much to elucidate more than that.

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it even though it's on the angsty side.

[ratcreature]

Yay, I'm glad you like it (and for your info too, it helped find example pictures of the right kind of bow

[ratcreature]

Even a tablet that is not fancy and lacking the advanced features will give you much better control than a mouse. I find it still hard to draw directly freehand with my tablet without doing anything on paper before, I think that would need much more practice to become proficient, but the learning curve for using it to ink/color/rework a rough pencil sketch is not that steep. I think the difference (at least for me) is that when reworking something, even if it has lot of flaws, you have some guideline already on screen to orient your movements on, to deal with the disconnect of moving your hand on the tablet, but have the result on screen. I find doing things digitally is especially useful if my pencil sketch has problems, like for example with this picture Roy's arm was somewhat in the wrong place and the head wasn't right, and stuff just didn't work in my pencil sketch attempts at all, so I scanned one and rearranged parts until it looked somewhat right in broad terms and then drew the details over it in another layer, fixing

[blackrosebard]

Oh that is just gorgeous. And...pain. Through and through. My Dinah is wanting to curl around her Roy and NOT LET GO!

[ratcreature]

Thank you!, I'm glad you like it. And yeah, he definitely deserves hugs.