Friday, June 5, 2009

Grecian Elf Process

I love watching progression of pieces, so you'll find lots of such from me. Here's one I'm currently working on, from cleaned up sketch, to ink, to digital color. Sketch done on regular computer paper, inked with inking nibs, and painted in PaintTool SAI.






I'm gonna fix her sleeve more. I get ansty about fixing lineart because frankly it's not my strong suit, and frankly I can get lazy about things. There's tons of tiny mistakes with this, but hopefully it'll get better as I tweak it along.

Sketch dump

So what have I been doing out of college? NOTHING. I've been taking my break from art I felt I had always needed, and it is helping tremendously.

Of course that means the drawings suffer a little too, but it just feels nice to be freer. I've decided to work on my traditional skills a little more, particularly with inking and lineart. I'm not great at either, so I figured I'd benefit from the practice.


Inked with inking nibs, save for the rather light one - that's ballpoint. MASSIVE "woops" on the pant leg there. I cried a little. FROM THE HEART, YO.



Digital ink. Oh, irony.


Sketches during jury duty. Some spiritual stuff + dancing stuff.


Andora, aka "Black Pearl". She's a courtesan. Created while listening to El Tango de Roxanne (Moulin Rouge version). It's a fantastic song. I hope to play with her costume a bit.