Hi everyone, hope you’re having a nice Wednesday!
Here’s some character sketched from a short I’m working on this month.
They’re inked rather sloppily in brushpen to save time and give me more freedom to figure out white/black balance. Also, Trey and Uni are siblings and the only two humans left alive.
I realized this week that I have been all but dead the past couple of weeks.
Well the skinny is that I moved to downtown Mpls. I just recently acquired internet again and I’m getting around to settling down a bit.
The little projects I’ve been puttering out have been put on hold to play around with this larger illustration. It’s a study in brush inks and has taught me a lot about inking.
Working on this piece makes me see just how desperately bad I need a scanner in my life.
So I’m closing commissions for the summer in order to work on a few comics.
BUT
I’m opening a Society 6 shop to sell some landscape prints and decals.
Below are the first two examples
I think they make snazzy phone and laptop decals.
Check out my Society 6! By clicking this link you automatically get free shipping from my shop with your purchase!
AND NOT TO MENTION, you will be helping me cover tuition this Fall.
Cause I need like $800 by August.
Thanks for reading!
Poor post apocalyptic Finn
was a warm up doodle and then it wasn’t
Quick character sketch for a possible comic idea.
Transparent for kicks
Night time Zelda doodles!
Every now and then I just get the urge to draw her or Link
Work in process vine test
It’s kind of fun and definitely challenging to choreograph all the vines, it’s taking me a lot longer than I anticipated.
As a non animator I really have a ton of respect for people who do this for a living. There is just so much to think about, so many hours spent tweening, so many hours in post production, and this is just by hand! On my latest count I was at 427 layers in photoshop and this is just a 30sec animation.
Anyone who thinks it’s easy should give it a try, it’s not easy but it’s very rewarding to see your work move. Even if it’s all choppy like mine!
Tone study of Yggdrasil
The thing about bitmaps and toning is that it never just looks like what the computer shows me. So I have to print a handful of prints in different sizes just to see what it will look like.
Why can’t it just look like what I want it to?
So I inked the cottage
And Tumblr did a good job of making it look like crap
fullsize it yo!
This was a bit of too much fun on my part. It was only meant to be a test for dry brushing, see it? Right there, in the willow and shadow of the fence, haha that’s it! It was refreshing to realize that I can still work in some semblance of perspective. I also used this project to work on getting some variation in foliage on the environment. I have a nasty habit of doing these little cloud like bumps for all my nature-y stuff.
