LadyJudgement

Took the pose idea from an Iron Man cover by Pat Lee...

War Patriot 100

LJ

Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain...

LJ

Now in Color!

LJ

No, Omarosa went back to the Underdark!

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I call my submission Dev Panic.

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DAMN! That's funny...

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There are artists doing digital sculpture with ZBrush and Mudbox that is both quickly produced and insanely detailed.

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Links please!!!

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Multiple births scare me...I have a cake order to do on Tuesday for the mother and father of 10 year old QUADRUPLETS!!!!! *Shudders* Two boys and two girls. The parents said they cannot wait for the teenage years.

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My graduating from college teen just went back after being home a week! It was utter chaos here, clothes an crap everywhere, more locker room talk than on a team of feisty roller derby queens, and ugh their music...

and now back to our regularly schedule Alex... cause his kid's gonna be great! BUY HIS ART NOW!!!!

Whoops forgot to add you can also use the magic wand, AND better yet CS3 has a selection wand that let's you just pass it over like "toned" areas...

When in doubt, turn to you tube and type in "Photoshop CS3 Selection Tool"

LJ

Select the Lasso Tool with L key, make sure it is the lasso tool and not the polygonal or magnetic tool. On the top bar you will see 4 squares, if the first square is clicked, each time you make a selection... that is to say left click your mouse in one spot, while holding down the left click and coming back to the same spot (kind of like drawing a circle) and letting go... each time you do that, the previous selection you make will disappear when you draw a new one.

What you want to check is the 2nd box, the one that "adds a selection", so that you can make mutliple passes or selections on the intricate outline of your character.

So that is one way. Another trick is to draw a steady short line with the lasso, then hold down the Alt key, and the lasso turns into the polygonal tool for as long as you hold the Alt key. Why not just start out with the polygonal tool? Well it's a bit tricky, and if you let for a second, the computer closes the shape for you automatically, and not always in the best way.

If you hold the Alt key before you start, then you'll see a little minus sign next to the lasso, and any shape you close will be taken away from the previous selection if any. So careful, do a little dash and then hold the alt key. Though with add a selection checked, you don't have to hold the alt key at all, each "closed" shape you draw will be added to the previous one.

In this way, you can draw smaller shapes inside your character, or hug the edges from top to bottom or which ever part you start with... I sometimes draw the first closed shaped around the largest part, and then add smaller selections to the rest till I have everything.

However, you can go backwards, select as close to the whole shape as you can, then using the "minus" box, the 3rd of the 4 boxes, take away parts of the whole selection that are not your character.

I hope my explanation wasn't too confusing.

Here is a visual guide by someone less chatty...

LJ

... or the doodle that took a life of it's own.

LJ

The DC Guide to coloring comics... great info! btw nice glows on this one. I think the difficulty with 2 color toons, is bringing in outside colors that don't clash. I always try to pick a complimentary color for the background and desaturate it... then I either darken or lighten it.

Also don't cut off the top of the wings and the bottom of the feet, makes him look squished. I like the overall mood on this though...

Damn! I hate when children are happy...

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Thought I would go for a more comic book feel with mine take a look here.

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This is killer, nice effect.

Colors by me... and shame on you for pimping your kid's art!

original pencils

LJ

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Working on a piece for eventual cropping... plus he was fun to draw. Gonna color him tomorrow, I'm dead...

Blue Steel

LJ

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I like that a lot. I think it's too big for a forum avatar, but it's a nice job. They should use that image for a City Scoop article about Blue Steel -- The Dev Behind the Mask!

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thanks, it's not done yet, those are just the "flats"... and I do plan to submit it to the Scoop!

LJ

Yo Alex, you could always have twins and double your queue!

I think this is the best of the last 3, great movement and I love the hands!

Shy for this costume, if she was more lethal looking maybe the first one...

Nice PM work... congrats! That really would have helped drawing her...

Working on a piece for eventual cropping... plus he was fun to draw. Gonna color him tomorrow, I'm dead...

Blue Steel

LJ

it's epic animated goodness... or should be! rest them mitts now bruddah!

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Would it be possible to get a screenshot of you, other than the KR version? *he said hoping to see the shield in action*

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Probably easy to do with a demo edit.

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Don't know how to use that, not to mention if it's a bit of a bother... more than likely I won't be using it... but anyone caring to do so, and post up some cool screens, I'd be happy to do a free sketch for...

Would it be possible to get a screenshot of you, other than the KR version? *he said hoping to see the shield in action*

I wish we could play toons that big in COH...

Toxic Wing...

reference

I sort of drew over the screen you sent me, which was umm a bit small, so when I blew it up to accommodate my digital inking, the pixels were pretty blurry! So while it looks close, it's actually "a draw over" trace...

Hope you like it.

LJ

edit: send me your email, and I'll send you the large version, this is like half the actual size...