LadyJudgement

darn I wish I could see the faces of my clients when they see the work for the first time... that would be nice. Congrats, can we see the painting?

Thor looks great... his line work reminds me of Dave Wenzel.

Okay I'm not sure I know what that means... but I'll rejoice anyway.

ah so you want the final to be patriotic ala something like this Cap shot?

and while we're on the subject, is that who I should be modeling this after? Cause I could download a bunch of them for inspiration, did you want WP holding the flag?

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wooo hooo. sorry this sort of thing always interests me if i get too nosey bop me with a rolled up paper.

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No problem, books this year have been my secret weapon, I think I spent 5 commissions on them. But they really help when a class isn't available...

Thank you, yeah I'm pretty happy with it, this new brush really picks up on the pressure sensitivity. So I can get deep blacks, and really nice thin light lines to build up shading. If only it could do super straight lines like Illustator... sigh

Cool, the next Larissa piece won't be ready till 2008!

Headshot warm up... a more controlled version for ya, hope you like... TA & Sassy spoke well of ya, and just wanted you to know that goes a long way with me...
LJ

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cool little what if .. care to share the inspiration ?

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Sure, just got inspired after reading this book, which I took out from my local library. We live down the street about 2 blocks, so it was a huge surprise to find they had it. I'd been on the fence about buying my own copy, and now I definitely want one.

LJ

I'll be your partner Doug, I'll whip you in shape once in the morning, then twice in the afternoon, and finally half a whipping before bedtime... oh heck a full whipping! You can pay me in artwork... oops computer mix up, seems your entire backlog got accidentally deleted, till we fix the hard drive, you can start on mine...

I could do a Graver piece, it would just take as long as ordering a real one, so why kill myself?

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I usually don't comment on artwork, unless its from an artist that I've been following. In terms of this section that's about 3 artists who post here: Gill Bates, Graver and DarkJedi...

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Wait yer not following ME?!!!

Oh speaking of which Kai, I read some Green Lantern graphic novel and got an instant idea for your group, I think it's gonna be perfect... so email when to meet you guys this week, I have to take my own screens for this to work. You're gonna feel like being at a photo shoot, "make love to the camera, no put your pants back on! I was talking figuratively ya crazy *****rd!"

LJ

Turbo-ski had guns and delusions of Trinity...

LJ

That's actually pretty close for me. I am finding that a detailed piece which use to take me 2 days of no interruptions save sleep and food, would be sufficient to keep me on schedule. But with the differences in toons, and NOT wanting to cookie cutter each piece I have been spreading myself a little thin.

Not to mention loosing enthusiasum because how often does one person want to draw the same things day in and day out. So I sporadically dot my lows with gift art, sketches for myself, and well let's not even mention projects that you hope will gain you some rent money in the long run.

I think 8-10 days is a healthy wait once the artist begins, that amount of time will allow details to be done, oddites to occur, and yes the intrusion of real life.

I'd love to bang out 2 day pieces again, but I know my back, my eyes, my personal life would suffer for it.

As for sketches, this all depends on what the client will settle for... same goes with coloring, what might make the client happy could be vastly different from the artist. On very rare occasions do I get examples thrown at me like can you simulate this piece in my own. That for myself only, helps a great deal, it takes out the guess work, which is very time consuming.

I am currently on a piece for a client in my queue, which took several sketches to get done to an agreed upon theme. In the end, my original idea was what I knew he wanted, it just took "me" several days to realize that. Now after returning to it, comes the detail work, and it's the kind of thing that well if I draw another guy with a sword, somebody shoot me! But this is what we do, this is the business I'm in... so it's also a question of reinvigorating yourself, your inspiration, AND as always making your client happy with the final.

I still strive for speed, but I'm learning to take healthy breaks, for both heart and soul.

... because I may not color this for a while...

Just kidding, was doodling with that Oil Detail 5 brush again in Painter 9, and after putting the features together I had no idea who to turn her into... so you got picked!

Happy to say no reference on this one, though kind of looks like my cousin Vicky, anyway happy to know I can still draw. Usually when I draw in a computer program, I get really shaky lines... I really like this brush, feels like a china marker. But this is as close to how my original pencils would look if I did it on paper

Hope you like it **...

LJ

Nice one Kilo! Congrats, looks old school printish... nice style!

Who's the weird Dr. Doom wannabee in the second row on the left?

The talking heads was only because of the situation... they were just sitting around. It could have been on cell phones with you describing the people around them, and their environment and the dialog would take on new meaning.

Your dialog elsewhere serves a more instantaneous effect, it moves the plot a long, it focuses our attention. Two people talking about their relationship is painful, unless there's some point to it, or action, and there was neither in my opinion until they were shopping.

It wasn't bad dialog, just purpose less (k not a word, but you get what I mean)... I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, what were you going for with those lines before the store, maybe I missed your point? You tell me...

I liked this a lot Tundy once the action started going, it was very well paced. I only have a problem with 2 things, the opening is long and unexciting, and I think it would be better to describe two examples as short action vignettes, which we know you can do, then separate them with * * *

So that the reader has time to digest the point of view. Each of your opening examples of how much crime is in the city would work tighter as fleshed out paragraphs say 2-3 in length. Then breaks added with * * *, then straight to the main characters.

Otherwise your set up becomes a huge information dump about the same thing: crime is rampant. If this were a comic, we'd have to edit down to 3 examples to show over 1 or 2 pages, you shouldn't spend that long on getting to the main character, ya know what I mean?

And well the second part is the talking heads with the main characters. They don't really bond until they go shopping, so why not start them out there in the store, and throw in the same dialog from back in the apartment.

Otherwise I read pointless dialog meant to show their bond, but without action (and lying around on the couch is not action in my opinion...) without some movement or situation (even eating at a table would have been better, eating implies someone cooked or brought food, while the other waited, is enjoying it or not... all of this puts us closer to the character's movement in the world you create...) the dialog becomes nothing more than: a joke without a punchline. Just filler words till the good stuff...

Your action though is great, I was loving it when she got going. And I'd love to see the follow up... Do you belong to any writing sites? I think there's a Writer's Guild for COH, well an unofficial one. Well I hope that helps, just my opinion mind you... it was very good!

Btw, is Stacey an ice tank? Got a screenshot?

LJ

I used the same technique essentially to do the Envisionary pieces and the Skye piece... but I was inking/drawing in Illustrator first, Teruchan's technique of using the oil brush tool was fun to sketch with, and saved a lot of time. So this was fun to experiment with...

yer welcome, and that's quite enough amazings lol I'll take 1 and be happy. Glad you like it, and sorry Tundara, it's digital, check the link to the tute under the image... Teruchan rocks!

Bah! I have nothing to give... but yer welcomes.

I am immune to your Jedi Mind Tricks!

LJ