Rowrsie

Thanks Foo Yes I'm still learning where and when to add thicker line weights. I have a general sense of how to do it, but it's the tiny little subtleties that might be escaping me. I imagine it is something that comes with practice. What I'd really like to do is take a pencils piece and ink it and then compare it to a "professional's" inking, and see what I do different and what they do different etc. Inking hair is really hard! :P

But I'm gonna work on some more pieces today, I've still got several in my queue

So, Jim? Pep? Jomaro? Your thoughts? I'm really eager for some good in depth feedback.

I'm just loving how after inking it, it REALLY makes the image 'pop' on the page compared to the pencils. I know these days that a lot of folks just take their good clean pencils into photoshop, and play with the levels to have it "inked" that way. But I'm really liking manually doing it. I can't ink very well or very fast in photoshop quite yet, I don't have a tablet so I have to use the mouse, setting up paths and fills etc, it takes me 10x as long to do a line that I can do in one or two strokes of my hand.

But it's fun

Maybe I can apprentice myself to an established artist or something :P hehe

Okay got my scanner fixed YAAAAY!!!

Here we go! Please don't look at the big versions as you will see lots of tiny little mistakes :P *jedi hand wave*

(Btw tomorrow I will edit it so the original pencil versions are up side by side)

First up, Leopard Queen - Jim Tessier ( Original Pencils ) ( Big version )

Then we have Slate - Pep Rally ( Original Pencils ) ( Big versoin )

Finally, the one you've all been waiting for, Rowr - Jomaro Kindred ( Original Pencils ) ( Big version )

So... please honest and direct feedback is highly appreciated!! I know I have a -lot- of room for improvement here.

Some things I learned about inking:
You can do straight lines if you move your hand fast, but you lose precision.
You can do precise lines if you move slow, but you get some jitter.
Fast quick strokes while drawing the outline is generally not a good idea as you get little 'bumps' where you lift your pen and again where you pick up the line.
It's better to pick up your line somewhere where you already drew not where you stopped.
Never ever 'pause' with the pen on the paper. Big bubbles! Always lift up at the end of each stroke.
Don't go overboard with ink shading! It'll make it look bad.

Anyway... Please critique!!!!

*sits and waits for the thrown tomatoes*

Just finished pep rally's pic It looks pretty nice but I think I might do more ink shading lines... but I'll have these 3 scanned and posted tonight.

LA: Make sure you contact him and get him to send you a high res scan :P I mean I could do that since I talk to him often but that's your job hehe


Current Inking queue:
(Note: NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

Leopard Queen - Jim Tessier [DONE!]
Rowr - Jomaro Kindred [DONE!]
AngelWhite - Jim Tessier
Slate - Pep Rally [65% complete]
<unknown> - Londerwost
WildFire - MaverickX (waiting big version)
Comic Page - Solid State
Bayani - Ronin Tyger
Cross - Greymist
Roxstar - Roxstar
<TBD> - Celsia (Send me something chica!)
TA - Starchasm (waiting big version)
<Clobbertime's villain> - Jim Tessier (waiting big version)
TA - CoH_NPG (waiting big version)
Lord Apollon - Jim Tessier (waiting big version)

I'm pretty sure he'd be fine with it, I've got several of his already in queue and already talked to him about it

Okay here's my queue, I will post links once I break...err i mean FIX my scanner... yeah. Kicking it across the room counts as fixing it right?

(Note: NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

Leopard Queen - Jim Tessier [DONE!]
Rowr - Jomaro Kindred [DONE!]
AngelWhite - Jim Tessier
Bayani - David Nakayama
Slate - Pep Rally
<unknown> - Londerwost
WildFire - MaverickX (waiting big version)
Comic Page - Solid State
Bayani - Ronin Tyger
Cross - Greymist
Roxstar - Roxstar
<TBD> - Celsia (Send me something chica!)
TA - Starchasm (waiting big version)
<Clobbertime's villain> - Jim Tessier (waiting big version)
TA - CoH_NPG (waiting big version)

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Well, if you still need some practice, this is the drawing of my main villain Jim Tessier did for me. I hope the res is enough for you to work with, would like to see how it looks inked.

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Think I need to get Jim to send me a higher res/bigger version... that might be a bit too small to get really detailed with.

Yeah, I'm having issues trying to figure out how I'm gonna do that dark sky below the moon.... I think I might just leave it as is hehe, because that is really something that oughta be colored.

Do you have a bigger/clearer version? I don't think I'm at the point yet where I can safely ink from a rough without losing the original artist's intent... right now i'm just going for clean lines, straight lines, etc. But I'll be happy to give it a try!

Just need a bigger version!

Update. I finished inking one of Jim Tessier's peices, the Leopard Queen , and I'm nearly done inking Jomaro's "sketch" of Rowr he did earlier... it looks REEALLY good.

BUT... unfortunately... my scanner is having an issue and I have to apparently buy a new color ink cartridge just so the stupid thing can get past an error message just so I can scan. Stupid piece of junk. I need a dedicated scanner. Anyway... so I'll have these pieces posted tomorrow!

And I have to say it is a LOT of fun inking!!! I didn't think it would be but I've thrown myself into it more than I have anything else in recent times... the solid black REALLY makes things 'pop'... it's sooo neat.

And just to allay some suspicion, this thread is NOT a clever ploy to get some free art done!!!

But now I kinda think it should be.....LOL



Such a challenging piece too!! Look at all the detail! yum!!

WOOOOHOOOO! I have a Jomaro piece!!! *dances*

Wow Thank you !!

I'll get right to work on it!

*dances some more!*


....*mumbles* Quick sketch.... sheeesh!*

Uhhh if you contact him and let me know if he'll allow it hehe

Any that you would like! Hopefully something where you've left some indications where you want 'absolute black' to go and like shade lines and stuff... I still can't draw very well but I like to think I have a fairly good grasp of shadow and light... not expert level but decent at least... maybe. perhaps. Dunno!

That's why I need practice!

If you have a bigger scan just PM me and I"ll send you my email addy, no size limits there

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heres a nice high res pencle drawing for ya V Drop hope i could help

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That already looks like it's been inked?


DJ: That would be fanTABulous !!!

Nothing like open license to encourage budding arteests :P hehe

Yes, High res would be awesome

And thanks Gill!!! <3

Okay so I would like to practice my inking, I practiced on something yesterday and it came out really well, and I'm very pleased. But I would like more practice!

So if anyone has a good, clean pencil drawing they'd like me to try inking, let me know! I'd like a high quality or high resolution scan of it if at all possible. Just need to practice.

So um... yeah!

And if it's not one of YOUR drawings, make SURE you get the artist's permission for me to attempt to ink and/or post on these forums. I don't want to get in trouble

I'd say your excused!!!

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i'm no artist, at all, but i tried the one thing i could do, nothing fancy, but an attempt!
Pep Rally 1
Pep Rally 2
Pep Rally 3

dunno if this even count as art, but i just had to try creating a CoH char

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What program is that? It actually looks pretty cool. #2 with the peekaboo over-the-shoulder vamp look is very slick =D

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That thar is Second Life

Hehe I looked at the gallery and saw a few that I had missed! THAT'S WHY YOU NEED GALLERIES PEOPLE!

*LMAO* Woot... you're awesome!!! hahaha those are great!

And you coulda use Dragonberry she's a spiney one !

Now do one about a catgirl army

More Nakie Rowr?

This is true...

LMAO Lovely!

That's why I wear shorts and not a skirt :P