June 23, 2011 : Cel-Shading… Old School
So I was able to devote some time to complete a drawing I was working on last week. It’s been a while since I’ve gone past a rough sketch – including inking (digitally), coloring, and dropping in a background. I’m pretty happy with the end result:
The posing is simplistic – the drawing was conceived with the setting in mind (a dark alley). I intend future drawings to possess more action. While I like how everything turned out, much of the character’s detail goes unnoticed. This was required to get the right perspective and framing for the alley.
The size of the original drawing with just the character was actually very large (2500 x 3500 pixels). I ended up having to shrink it down to a tenth of the size. Here is a larger version of the character all shaded and everything – note that this is still less than half of the original drawing’s size.
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June 16, 2011 : Back To The Drawing Board
Over the last month, I’ve been revisiting a storyline that I worked on many years ago (along with Moridin). It was conceived back in 2003, which was also the same time I started getting into animation (the two actually went hand in hand). I was also drawing a lot more back then. I’ve been sketching less and less over the years – however, I’ve made a concerted effort to spend more time drawing recently. Below is an example (relax, it’s nothing special):
The storyline never got fully formed. However, I am hoping to move forward with it because I always liked the premise. To help get things going, I plan on drawing more since that has always inspired ideas. In fact, I hope to create a few finished drawings on the side (and the idea for the first one is in the sketch above). Getting a better handle on the story, will hopefully lead to a few upcoming shorts… at the very least.
posted by Pi Visuals at 10:44 pm
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