LadyJudgement

You can check out my Play City "Entertainment for Heroes" mock covers, waaaaay at the bottom on the side of my main DA gallery. not saying I am the sexiest, just throwing myself in with the big boys!

Though I'd have to say any piece with Invincibelle is a given.

Not bad, but whatcha gonna do for the other slots? Too much of the same color starts to look like you only have 1 idea.

MA/SS toon

Looks very Batman-ish in the base colors... so I suppose bright yellow, gold or light grey could make good accents.

Is the event up on Test?

Tanks 4Dmemories... is Dark Ether's tank! Of course...

This is my 3rd piece for him, from my current special offer, which is still available.

Thanks D for the commission work!

LJ

hmmm true dat.

You know Z, if you happen to know CSS...

I think you could broaden your sales appeal by doing buttons, and banners for people's DA journals. Just a thought...

There ya go Bill, but why stop there... Find the largest longest wall in your house, and put up all your toons... then you can give tours on Sunday, and have a small gift shop in your kitchen.

I wish they did 12 inch versions that could go on the side of my tower, that would be more functional...

It's 3 deals, 4ft, 5ft, and 6ft... starting at $70 (including shipping) and going up $10 more for each size after... definitely putting this on my birthday list.

LJ

Oh and yes slap yer husband for all of us, he just made me poor again!

I got him on watch... congrats MD!

Sokay, I was just interested in following him on DA if he had an account... no biggie.

Silverbelle ... is his Dark Ether's dark/dark Defender.

LJ

Turning out great Aero, is she gonna have more spikes erupting?

lol thanks for 2 comments dd

Yeah I was tempted to make it darker... maybe I'll toy with one just for fun.

Kichi's is a pretty cool toon... who is the artist "Jeff"? love that one.

Gees I want all those toys! Okay gotta grow up...

We have those "mannikins" Juggertha, they were about $20 each and are pretty could if you light them a certain way, you can get decent shadows... They're better than the old wooden kind. I'm thinking you want one of those beefed up collector toys... you may wanna check Toys R US if they have the equivalent in Korea.

Just bought her this:

Cartoon Cool: How to Draw New Retro-Style Characters

Amazon has it for under $11

As I am trying to get back into drawing, I was wondering:


1) What kind of paper do you use? What is that blue-ish paper for drawing I see?

For sketching you want something that when you erase on it, the paper can take the punishment of doing so over and over. Cheap paper will get stains from smudged pencil that can't be erased itself without tearing a hole clear through.

And speaking of erasers, you'll need at least 2-3 kinds. A good white rubber one, not those pink things, throw that crap away. And a must is a kneaded eraser, which is self cleaning when you pull it apart, and knead it back together.


2) Pencil?

I've seen people use a pencil lead in a holder, those are fun to use. But you'll need special sharpners for it, and or a small sand paper pad. Mechanical pencils are great, but I snap them like crazy... I recently saw that Lastscionz on DA sketches super lightly with a 4H, then "inks" over an HB lead. I'm looking forward to trying that myself...


3) Any stencils or rulers?

Both of these will add precision to your backgrounds, you might want to get them for the future.


4) What should I practice on? Movement, body, etc?

Doug is right everything, including still lifes, nature, animals, perspective, and of course people. I'd say for comic art in general, anatomy, perspective and lighting (color & tone) are your 3 big musts.


5) I am focusing on Smurfs, and "Fusion or Simplistic style"

Cartooning or fusion is hot right now, but you'll find that a lot of those people already know how to simplify what they draw normally. It's like anything, if you want to draw better anime, you should study real life, in order to add that element of detail to your "comics". Fusion is a lot about movement simplified into shapes, I just bought my wife a book on this by Chris Hart. She doesn't normally draw people, but I have hope that if she doodles enough, she'll be comfortable enough to do draw more often.


Any other tips not listed above would be greatly appreciated.


I can't recommend enough getting more books, if classes are not available, and even if they are... good luck!

Carnie Luv

This is the first of 3 commissions for Dark Ether, this one of his DB Scrapper... I took license with the hair, cause I wanted it to be more sexy... Sorry for posting it before you DE, I couldn't wait! Hope you like her, I sent you the huge originals...

LJ

Will do...

I've yet to apply this, but it does intrigue me, hopefully yours will make that one easier to follow.

Very professional looking... are you submitting it somewhere? it reminds me of this technique: ImagineFX Magazine tute.

LJ

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First (2) questions as I move through this:

I did steps 1-4-------

1. Now lets say I used a scanned in image of something I have drawn. It sees that as background layer---not layer 0. Is that okay?

2. The layer that I name Base---Now you are using the paint bucket fill tool on that? I used grey.....as an example and the whole screen went gray.

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Whatever you scan in, you should click on that layer and rename it "line work" and using the drop down menu, I circled in above that layer, set it to multiply.

If you don't set it to multiply when you paint bucket the bottom layer, yes everything will go opaque to whatever color you drop in. I think you probably placed that linework layer under the base or what should be your background layer.

Remember the line up is:

1) Linework set to multiply
2) Render layer under that, set to normal, or leave it, it should be normal as a default.
3) Base or Background layer, under everything, again on normal. The reason I call this bottom layer base, is because whatever color you drop in with the paint bucket sets the overall "mood" for the piece.

If you drop in bright red, it takes on a whole different feel then say a muted purple or brown. I also call it base, because when you think background, you should be thinking the background "drawn area" of your sketch or drawing... not the color background which is what this is.

Go back and find that pull down menu, and make sure you have it set to multiply. Also you can not color on the Render layer, unless you hide the Flat layer which will eventually be above your Linework (scanned sketch or drawing) layer.

Hope that helps...

LJ

Well yes, then people could rotate their choices each piece... okay that sounded dirty... ahem... how YOU doing?