LadyJudgement

They were a big help, thanks again!

Technically still sketches, but this is past the half way mark of what I intend the finish to look like next week, when I get to color everyone...

So here is the End of the World sketch and the monochromatic color test for lighting...

okay, but if your hand crumbles into dust, don't blame my [censored]...

sorry, I'll add the NSFW

Don't shoot the messenger, the screens I got had excess boobage detail... I just painted what I saw.

Soul Train in color...

Sent PB, 15 stage files, hopefully he can make with the movie magic...

LJ

Love this, it's so James Bondish... LR would make a great Bond Girl...

ewww she peed...

Thanks I took out this Robin graphic novel from my library, and it had this great explosion shot that I knew I had to try sometime. When I read LJ's bio, I saw a window to do it, course I wish I had saved the original drawing BEFORE my damn firewall update crashed Painter. It was a much cooler face than these two, though I am happy with them.

Traced ink of ST, some drawing by me, but only about 20%... the rest is from the screenshot I used. Gonna color this tomorrow in Painter, inking was done in about an hour in Illustrator.

EDIT: for color now...

LJ

Lady Jade... and now inked!

Basically this is her exploding out of a burning school bus, placing herself and the surviving kids in green protective bubbles... hope you like it LJ!

LJ

Awesome got it...

Hey Dandy would you have a screen shot of "Total Focus"? I need one for a current commission and my client is away for 2 days... And if possible could you describe the build up and or use of it in battle... he wanted glowing arms and or TF, so I'm trying to oblige.

Thanks in advance...

LJ

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LJ

Feet and hands... sorry no instruction, just music, but worth watching...

LJ

LOL!

Here's an example of wet on wet and runs...

Though it should be noted he's using a flat brush, which gives him a wide edge of bristles to hold more colors... He goes really fast, and I don't recommend starting to paint this way, but it's cool to see an example of it.

Gees what You Tube doesn't have is beyond me: Wet on Wet... the only thing is in this demo, he's going for speed and expression, not tight controlled realism or even semi tight comic coloring. Just so you know that...

Do some other searches on You Tube, great stuff there...

LJ

What? You have no patience... Wait till yer lying in hospital, then ask the nurses to pose... argggh, will ya give a dying pirate one last wish?

I sent the bird out fer dry land, argggh... if he comes back good, but if he doesn't the better, more rum for me!

pretty hilarious, great sketch too...

Must be watercolor day... I just described this for another poster here. But let me try again with more concise info:

1) Simple Wash: dry paper, water is applied on the dry brush, to the watercolor paint, adding more water to make more color, and of course cleaning your brush in between adding water, or you will muddy your color.

So with a single stroke in whatever direction you apply to the dry paper, you lay down a stroke of either more color, or you dilute your brush with more water to bleed out the color to the white of the paper, OR how ever far you are going to spread that color into any given area you are trying to define.

Still with me? I have to start with a simple wash, because if you can't do one, then you can't do the wet on wet.

2) WOW: Like Tim said, you apply pure water, to the area you want to paint. That is to say ONLY if you're just starting. You can also do wet on wet with 2 different colors, but you gotta be really careful not to muddy them. That's why I asked about the simple wash strokes, the strokes are adjacent and barely overlapping, they are not one on top of the other, that's mud.

Okay so wet the area, now get your color on your brush, and wash it out into the wet area. Again like Tim said, tilt your head to see how close to drying your first layer of wet color or pure water is, you want it to be at least 1/2 way dry. Then apply your new wash, and the added water on the surface will create a nice bleed of watercolor with your stroke...

You can also do this with pure water, when the layer below it is almost dry, and you'll get some cool runs... Good luck, btw, here's an example to show I know what I'm talking about:

Indy done for my mom, who is a huge HF fan...

LJ

Umm no offense but how old are you?

I'm only asking, cause I want to know if this is your first time with watercolors, and has anyone taught you how to use them before?

I can tell immediately from the painting that it was rushed, which if you're the kind of artist that likes quick results, well then you should never ever use watercolors. Because watercolors, even with a hair dryer on hand to help the drying times, is all about WAITING...

However I'm not trying to insult you as you HAVE used your colors fairly well, purple and yellow together (being complimentary colors) help to make the other color stand out.

The reason I say this is rushed, is perhaps you could have done a slower build up of the blue background into the purple, as then your effect would become more dramatic.

And since to me the effect takes up more of the painting then GW, then that's where my eye goes first, and should then be painted as the most important part.

I made a side by side by side using Painter on the left and Photoshop on the right of your original in the middle

I did this to compare the changes, with the goal of making the effect the most exiting area. By keeping that bright yellow at the tip of the swirls the brightest, and the trails or tails of the swirls darker and darker as they go away from the end/tip, you'll see that they stand out more.

Also since GW is black and white, I made her light too, but as you can see even though she is the brightest white, the effect is what stands out first because of both your composition, and the use of dark colors slowly building up next to the bright colors.

If you look at the Photoshop version on the right, you can see the smooth look I'm going for, if you look at the Painter version, you can see the textures I'm going for...

And that's something to consider when you do backgrounds in watercolor. They don't have to be super smooth. If you use a technique called wet on wet. That is to say, wetting the area you want to paint with a thin layer of pure water first, then dipping your brush into some of the watercolor tinted water, in this case blue and purple, you can combine that on the surface of the paper to create textures.

If you let that almost dry, then add another stroke of just pure water, you get what is called a "run" (as in running water) or bleed of the color, and sometimes that effect is nice if you have the patience to create it. You can't just slap it on, because watercolor has to dry in various stages to be used effectively.

If you want a crisp edge, say on GW herself, you let her completely dry before wetting any areas around her, or else you'll get a bleed you don't want. If you don't wash out your edges, by adding more water and pushing the color out from where you started, then you'll get a hard edge (as in the large purple area below her knee) where there shouldn't be one.

You were painting this light air like effect coming from her hands, that would not have a hard edge, air doesn't do that. It should be nearly invisible, so that it blends right into the blue sky you put in the background.

It's always best to work from light to dark, instead of the other way around, as once you cover the pure white of the paper, you'll never get it back. And if you mix your colors too soon, well then you get mud.

I'm sure you know some of this from having used it, but I promise you, if you take your time, the result will be amazing.

Good luck!

LJ

I spliced mine together from yours... only difference is I only have one chat tab set for almost everything.
My UI

I don't have all 3 trays open, as usually everything not on the first tray, I either don't use or have set to key shortcuts.

When I run my MM, I place the 2 pet windows on either side of the navigation window, as I now play on a 19" widescreen.

LJ

Coming out great, I love the lean...