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Hooray! My Cintiq has been returned to me, just two weeks after it was shipped out. It’s as good as new! Now to get back to work. I tried messing around with my pencils and markers, but didn’t come up with anything worth posting, although I managed to at least keep up with a little bit of doodling. *happydance*
My beloved Cintiq has been sent to the shop. Over the last few months, it developed an odd shadowing effect that was starting to get really distracting and annoying. After trying to work it out through emails with the tech crew, it was finally decided that whatever was wrong with it was not something we could fix, and so off to WA it goes. So now that leaves me with one less tool, but many others to play with that I’ve neglected lately, mainly real pens and markers. I also still have my Intuos 3. I don’t really intend to do a lot of lineart type stuff with it, but should be fine for coloring. To test that, I pulled out an old pic of Dezzia that I had doodled when I first got my batch of Copic markers. This had been done in all grey tones, so I pulled it into Painter and had some fun. A lot of fun, actually. I may give this treatment to a few other pics. And here’s the original markered pic: http://lenneth.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1puy5w I think Paul Mounts is my favorite digital colorist right now. If I had realized he’d be at C2E2, I would’ve brought along something to have him sign, along with Amanda Connor. Unfortunately, I must’ve missed seeing his name on the list, and only realized he was there when I saw his name tag. Bummer. Anyway, I tried a few ideas I got from staring at his stuff on the second page. And the usual copy/pasted babbling from dA: I changed the title block at the top. Now it’s boring, but I wasn’t too happy with the previous look. I’ll think up something more clever later, or at least for the next comic. Had a good time with the comic book-style coloring, and also with playing around with a few different ideas here Honestly, it felt like I spent the majority of the time on that scarf. I know that’s not true, but it took longer than I had expected! (page two) Rory is in so much trouble, he just doesn’t know it yet. There, we go.. page 2! Some parts of this felt like they went faster than the first page. I’m much happier with the final panel of Amy. I think I got a little carried away with her hair and made it maybe a tad too poofy, but it still works much better than the original pic. I like how the expression turned out considering (once again) the original rough was a lot more cartoony. This was so much fun! Original line art done in Manga Studio (roughs done in Painter), then brought into Painter for coloring. I prefer Eleven’s blue tie and shirt combo to his red one. Just sayin’.  Doctor Who - Trust Amy, you need to start trusting me. It’s never been more important. Just something quick to do .. well, something. I’ve had little ideas for quick sketchie pics for each episode. Whether or not I do them all.. anyway, this one obviously would be for “Flesh and Stone”. Did the rough pencils last week, then did the very sketchy colory-stuff tonight in about an hour. It’s pretty close to the mood I wanted, even if it was rushed.  Sorta-quickie-ish fanart from my new favorite webcomic, Gunnerkrigg Court. This was a paint-up of a doodle I started last night on my iPod Touch. I was going to work it up on there some more, but decided to send it over and finish it in Painter (I’ll probably upload the Touch version into my scraps later). I kept pretty much all of the colors I used for the rough layout from the Touch, so it looks a bit different from my “usual” stuff, which I like. I’m trying to improve my painterly art. I liked the soft moody look, so I tried not to overwork it. Anyway, this is Annie and Reynardine Sorta Speedpainting Blondie by ~lenneth on deviantART No.. not that blondie… Speed paint over a doodle I made using my iPod touch. Original sketch: http://lenneth.deviantart.com/art/ipod-touch-doodle-1-153747913 I imported this into Painter and gave myself 15 minutes to clean it up .. I’m trying to get more into speed painting.. XD Astray – Nigel and Morgan by ~lenneth on deviantART Kind of Valentine’s Day-ish… some Morgan and Nigel fluff. … it means NOTHING! Nothing, I tell you. Speed pencil doodle, done in Painter. I haven’t used the grainy cover pencils much, I really liked using it here. Nigel’s hair got a bit.. poofy. And I think I need to fix the bridge of his nose, but this was mostly done for speed and emotion. Felt good to do something after doing practically nothing the last few weeks. This was also much, much pinker up until the last minute. Fun with inking hair by ~lenneth on deviantART More inking experimentation… this time very much inspired by Adam Hughes’ style of hair inking. Also tried a few different tricks with coloring while I was at it. For a quick and simple pic, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out… I was afraid for a while the hair was going to look horrible Someday my inking will not be rubbish! Astray – Dezzia inking fun by ~lenneth on deviantART I wanted to recreate a nice inking pen I found for Photoshop in Painter, so I started messing around with a custom brush. This started out as a quick inking attempt that I liked, so I tossed some color on, too. Dezzia is demanding that way. I’m still not a very good (comic style) inker, but I’m trying! XD This is probably one of my best attempts. I really like my custom inking pen that I have dubbed “inking smoothie”. Mmm, smoooooth.  full size at dA Just a goofy idea I had.. came from part of an idea from a 4koma, which then splintered off and I ran from it. Yes, this is inspired from Scott McCloud’s own ‘toony self. What started as a rather straight forward copy changed a bit when I got going, however, which I’m happy for. For the worn comic book look, I used most of this tutorial: http://www.bigtimeattic.com/blog/2008/03/tips-and-tricks-coloring-comics-to-look.html . Like my last doodle of myself, I don’t think I captured my complete roundness.. oh well |
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I liked this test, I’ll probably mess around with this idea more in the future.