Deebs

Got all my Salvage and badges I needed for Dragonberry , woot . and had a bit of time so did up a piccie of my Shoggothy Dark miasma / ice blast corruptor , Neverdarke .



The grey color on her is a place holder until I get around to coloring her ...otherwise she looks a tad topless

and i'll be starting up the free drawins again next week Happy Halloweeners

<tosses out her Ars Heroica gang hand signs at GF , like id forget who you are ....It was always a blast being on a team with you and running off from the team so we could kill things

the actual request thread is over on Virtue Gids , if you or any of the AR's Heroica kids wants girly chibi art of a character or two just post over there and i'll totally cheat and bump you up on the list :P

if you posted something here folks would think im intrested in drawing art for art forum folks and they'd clutter up my art thread with ugly ol screenshots :P

nope its still open , remember im fairly random in who I pick to draw and there is no guarantee i'll draw everyone buuuuut I think i've made a fairly large dent in the list so far :P

Talked to shia and he said he would likely set one up this friday at 7pm pacific , I have no idea what he would be working on (and you'll likely have to deal with a quarter of the screen taken up by Doctor Who as he draws )

Stream link ----> http://www.livestream.com/drunkfusdrawing

if his schedule changes at all i'll let you know but he seemed fairly certain that he could pop on and draw at that time .

I actually had questions about High Jinks , does he have eyes or is it just red spots on his mask ?

He can team with Sugarthrusters my bitchy whiney starscream homage

I thought I saw you wandering about in praetoria , welcome back GoM :P

When I use traditional pencils I used to smudge alot , on Big pictures I tend to use a small hand cloth to rest over penciled areas so that while working on another area I don't smudge things .

As far as photoshop I love it but im not very knowledgeable on alot of its tricks I even with shia to lean on for advice i've been seriously debating taking a photoshop class just to build up familiarity with it .

I'll talk to shia and see if we can maybe schedule a stream in advance (its usually a spur of the moment thing . but it really is fun and educational watching someone draw something from beginning to end and be able to ask questions )

I've been watching your thread and im really excited that your so obviously into it , I really wish alot more folks would take up the hobby as like anything the more you practice the better you get and prior to starting CoH I was drawing stick figures .

its easier for me to just peruse this thread than follow links . (im a bit lazy too )

lets see the link for it is here ----> http://www.livestream.com/drunkfusdrawing and you can watch past stream shows (we watch Doctor who at the same time ) sometimes its comission work , sometimes doodles and such .

he dosn't have a set time it just sorta happens so catching him live can be a bit hard unless you have him on AiM and can ping him

the below is all very TLDR so fair warning

one of two ways ,

I sometimes sketch with a blue photo pencil ----> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-photo_blue (im real messy with lines but try not to erase things ) then find the lines I like and ink over the blue pencil .the blue pencil pretty much disapears when you scan it in .

(trick one Suichiro from these forums taught me or I stole it from him )

before learning the non photo blue pencil trick I would scribble out sketches then go back in and ink the lines I liked and only after inking would I erase anything , then when it was scanned in I would tweak the brightness in photoshop which allowed me to generally make any lite lines disapear and the inked lines very crisp and bright ,

(I've only recently started taking a class or two so all my early stuff is done the hard way )

lets see

pencil wise I use a refillable clickie pencil (I recently splurged and got a hoighty toighty fancy clickie pencil <.< >.> and my friends make fun of me for what I paid for it ...but its like my excalibur it really does feel right in my hand )

ink wise I use black sharpie markers for big black areas and micron pens of varying width for my inked lines (Microns are cheap and versatile and can be found at any art supply store )

paper wise I often buy a big pack of high end copy paper from the various office supply stores and sometimes pick up bristol board for larger images where im gonna be doing big doodles .

Toxic Shia has been doing alot of art streaming lately where he draws live , i've found it amazingly great as a tool to watch him since I can ask him questions about what he is doing and how he is using photoshop and i've picked up a few tricks from seeing other artists drawing live .

thats what the freebie practice is totally for to draw characters , faces and looks id likely not normally draw (also to steal costume ideas ) and yeah while I still need a ton of practice its neat looking at my first attempt at headshots and seeing the difference between the two .

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