Toxic_Shia

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Awesome picture as always, Shia and may I just say;

*Snrk* They Live...

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I've come here to kick butt and chew gum, and I'm aaaall outa butt!

Well I did the Pulpit one! The screenshot with him in it was kind of small, so it was tough making out the details, so I made up stuff as I went;

http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Ro...lpit-124610931

Coming soon to a game near you, Pulpit - the movie! Part of Pulpit played by Rowdy Roddy Piper!

Why hello there, Virtue! It's me! Yes, yes, that's right, /me/! Everyone say hello to me! I'm not particularly motivated subject wise at the moment, and thought I'd swing by our friendly game boards here and see if there's anyone out there with a screenshot of their character that'd like me to use the character in a practice digital painting!

So if you love having fan art done of your character of choice, please be the first person to respond after this post with a screenshot of previously mentioned character and I'll do some arting of them for my own practice and your all general enjoyment!

And to summarize;
-Doing 1 free fanart
-Person who posts a screenshot following this post gets it - as long as their characters cool looking and not looking like they hit randomize at the char gen screen >.>

Oh hi, I didn't see you sitting there! ho ho ho. Why not come sit in my lap and look at some lovely pictures!
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Wo...arts-124403874

This is some fanart of the green and black zeebra haired eldrich power house, Warwitch!

Nice one Imagesbyalex! Very cool intigration of artist and nymph

Here's my submission;
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Ma...-CoH-123621216

Original also in the details, but I tried to use DeVinci's Last Supper, because the chance to do something vaguely sacreligious isnt something I'd ever pass up.

This is my gift to you;
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/A-...tory-121316674

Many happy returns and may you get older and your boobs not sag horribly.

Hmm, if I did American Gladiators fan art for this it'd count, right?

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Shia

what you expected something else ?

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Ooh, someone's getting a nice B-day present <3

Here's my WIP for the contest (hopefully I'll finish it tomorrow, basicly have the lines and color flats down);
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Ap...INDS-120289845

For my versus thing I have chosen a more subtle form of combat between two masters of their respective fields, the great master of plotting and traps himself, and the lesser known mistress of unlocked doors and foiled fates! Who will out plot who?!

Well, there are advantages of doing the line work by hand, on real paper.. You can't control-z now matter how many times you do it mentally, but you never have to save!

This is sort of round 2 http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Sh...ment-117494128

So I found an awesome tutorial today on DA and tried it out;
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Dr...tice-116977082
I think it took me an hour or two

And here's the tutorial I tried;
http://jdillon82.deviantart.com/art/...orial-58099272

I used to use image ready from the adobe suite, now photoshop has a little animation window that lets you save images as animated gifs. They're really quite fun if you can figure out a short, simple, looping animation. Some people also use flash to make them.

This here is mine ; http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Bl...Fart-115716463

Bluesteel's aiming to finish the job beeeeyond the grave!

Did you try invinciboobs.com? Or perhaps exploding_underwear.gov?

Agh I find this picture so terribly offensive, why wont someone moderate it!! ohemgee!

If anything she's wearing MORE than normal, with the tape and all.

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Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?

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Nope. Just me, baby. Just me.

Kay, I submit some stuff for the Scoop;
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Tw...sion-114698634
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/The-[censored]-in-the-Smock-114587484 <-Omited word is male chicken.
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Ra...sion-114584263
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Ha...-all-112822874
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Ghostbaby-112598134
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Ho...eble-109608618
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Gh...gift-104198533
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Me...chnos-98261683
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Lo...mmish-92129688
http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Bl...vatar-80384453

And whatever else from my DA account the Scoop likes.

Rakescar generously commissioned me to draw this funny pic here, running off an old free picture I'd done of his character worshiping the mighty taco; http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/Ra...sion-114584263

Hope you all enjoy it!

(Also I did this cover for a proposed children's book featuring our own Dragonberry; http://drunkfu.deviantart.com/art/The-[censored]-in-the-Smock-114587484 )

I'm voting The_Foo, that's one creeeeeepy baby.

Oh great, who dropped the soap?

Sheesh, the dragons been chugging cold medicine again.

So while considering coming back into playing CoH, I'm eyeing the mac version... everything I have plays better on my cute lil Mac...

I think the 'best' way to ink depends on what you're trying to do with the piece, there's lots of different ways to ink things each with their own advantages and disadvantages, including the many methods of doing so in a digital medium. I think you really just have to experiment and find what works best for you.

-There's ways to digitally remove light pencils in photoshop, so thats one way of cleaning up a hand drawn piece

-Inking with a brush (Sumi-e works nicely) has nice smooth lines, and once you get used to it can go quite quickly (Though I find doing the fine details with a micron pen to ballance it out nicely)

-Another way I've found that was rather satisfying is to get a non-repro-blue pencil and do your sketching in that, then ink on top of it - if you do a grey scale scan of it, or just run it through a copy machine they blue lines wont show up at all and you're left with nice inked lines. (The poor mans version of this is to do it in whatever colored pencil you have, usually people use red, and to kill the red from the image with photoshop thus giving the same effect)

-Another way I've seen is people who just doing it all in pencil, and cleaning it slightly until they had nice smooth pencil lines. It's usually not as sharp as ink black lines, but it usually has a more delicate look to the lines, and looks more 'hand drawn' because of the roughness.

-Another method is to have your pencil work on one piece of paper, then do your inking on another by setting the blank paper you're gunna ink on above the penciled paper, and either put it over a light box to trace or the cheap version, just tracing it on a window. I've seen people ink it at that point, or use pencil to give it a nice clean look that does the job.

-When I ink, I use sakura micronpens - they come in a variety of thicknesses that makes it easier to control, and give nice steady clean looking lines. Sometimes I'll use a regular brush, or a quill pen which I've found will ink faster and look more natural and 'organic' than a regular pen.

-There's also a variety of ways to ink digitally, but most require a tablet (And most of these methods require a certain familiarity with photoshop, open canvas, adobe illustrator, and/or Flash). One method I've found that gives an interesting and smooth look, is to either scan your finished linework (This method works best with a variety of very thick black lines), or just use a screen resolution of your linework you drew out in photoshop, open canvas or whatever, and run it through Adobe Illustrator (A vector based program) and have it turn it into all vectors and lines. I find the cleaner results you get with this method are when you give it a low DPI image. When its an .ai file, you can bring it back into photoshop at whatever DPI you want and clean it up with the brush tool.
Also, flash has a very servicable brush tool that lets you draw rather organicly, and directly into nice clean vectors that I believe transfer rather well between adobe illustrator and photoshop.