The Bell Twins (WIP)

Ok most of you are probably following imagebyalex's Sketch a day? thread. Well for December, Alex was kind enough to sketch a duo I was playing with a friend of mine The Bell Twins (or les Jumeaux BBB).

Here is what Alex came up with.

Well I had just finished coloring Invincibelle and thought the sketch was soooo cool that I just had to give it a try and color it. Invincibelle was already inked .. but not this time ... so well I'm not done yet but 95% of the ink is done and its 3h30 am so I'm going to bed .. but I figured I would share my progress before doing so.

The Bell Twins (WIP)

Comments welcomed and appreciated. This is the first piece I actually ink (took me for ever but this is how I do it for now)

Me likey!

its nice this alex guy did a good job =)

Very nice, I loved what you did for Invincibelle and can't wait to see this piece finished.

Thanks for the comments. My sprint to do this on Saturday burned me out a bit. I should be getting back to it tomorrow (office party tonight).

As for the picture itself, the colors were just for a feel. I didn't confirm them off my characters. For example, I just realized that the flame tatoos on the arms should be blue and I noticed that Belle technically doesn't have flame tatoos on her arms. Well, the thing is that she doesn't have the tatoos because she needed a top. I think the ladies don't have flames with a bare chest (for some reason ). Point beeing that if it were available I would have added them (I think) when I designed her ... but now that I have played her without ...

All that to say I might make 2 versions (I like things complicated as mentionned in other threads)

aye...looking forward to seeing the completed piece

....soooo...do you color on request? ~

Ok well I kinda laid things out like I would like them to go and added some quick highlights and shadow to get a feel for it. Those are nowhere near what I want to do with them but I thought I would give you guys an update anyway.

The Bell Twins (WIP)

Next step is to go back and do nice clean hightlights and shadows.

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....soooo...do you color on request? ~

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You have no idea how much I would love to. There are so many cool pieces around here that I would love to have the honor of coloring some of them. But it still takes me alot of time to do this and I don't think I have that much time to invest in coloring. I love doing a piece or two, two or three times a year, but every piece kinda burns me out for a while.

But I'm not saying I would never do it ...

It's coming along nicely, I can see where my sketch might have been too sketchy for any inker. In those spots feel free to redraw any bits, you might want to draw the rest of her left hand and scoot the pic a little over. But it's looking cool!

Yeah I might actually do that. See, I liked the sketch so much that I was trying to stick to it as much as possible. I did move some likes and adjust others but I tried to stay true to the sketch. I even added some lines in there that I knew you hadn't meant to be part of the final drawing but that I thought added some character.

There are lines like the ones from the mouth to the dimples that I wouldn't normaly have added to my drawing. Those looked really nice on the sketch but when I got to inking them I wondered if they were meant or not. I liked the style but wondered how it would look when colored. I know that if I thined those lines the characters might look like they were sliced open. So I left them and I think it still looks kind of nice.

It's a drawing anyway. Style and character are good things, and if we wanted perfection ... we would use screen shots and pictures or something.

It's cool, I just wanted to let you know that you don't need to worry if you need to redraw and adjust the sketch. I do that all the time when I ink my stuff, I sometimes make huge changes from sketch to final inks. I just didn't want you to think that you weren't "allowed" to correct any mistakes that I made in the sketch. I say only stick to the sketch when it makes sense, otherwise feel free to improve it!

Well took me a while to finish the shading on this the way I wanted it but now I'm done.

I stopped counting the time I spent on this but here is the final product
The Bell Twins - Final

And this is the file at the size I was working
Big Bells (almost 1 Meg)

I want to print this and frame it so I worked on a size that would print well.

I had fun doing this hope you like it.

Comments are welcomed as always.

That turned out -really- nice! Great job.

Awesome job.