The explorations of an artloader.
Digital Art
I’ve been working on a winged panther digital painting. Again I’m skipping the line drawing stage and going straight to painting. Time spent is at around 3 hours so far in Manga Studio.
Here he is, Iyeon the Winged Panther:
After taking 13 hours over my previous picture I thought I’d try out a faster technique. This time I’ve missed out the line drawing stage and gone straight to digital painting. I used a reference photo, Manga Studio and the Wacom Intuos3. This black panther digital painting took 2 hours. Next I will paint one with bat-wings and some armour!
Added in the light tones, tidied up a bit and added a background with a brush tool set to watercolour.
This picture has taken 14 hours in total due to me struggling with getting his legs right, changing my mind on him being topless to wearing a jacket and spending too long on the linework instead of getting straight down to the painting.
Anyway I’ve added this to the eComic Concept Art page of Project ADC-1.
After the blocking in of colour I’ve started adding in the shadows for my full body ecomic concept art picture of Benevolen.
This picture has taken me 11 hours so far and has made me realise that my process is very inefficient. I spent a lot of time adding details to the line drawing which is getting painted over anyway.
I think what I should do in future is just do a very quick line drawing and not add the difficult detail till I’m painting in the colours.
For this concept I’ve changed my technique slightly. In Manga Studio, instead of having the line layer on top and the paint layer beneath, I’ve switched it so that the paint layer is on top. This means that instead of having the line layer always visible it will now disappear as I paint over the top of it. I feel that this approach will allow me closer control on areas of detail as I paint whereas before, the line-work was obscuring the paint-work.
Total time spent on this is now at 10 hours and I have just completed “Blocking In” colour:
Further progress on my eComic Concept Art in Manga Studio. I reckon I’ve finished the line work now, next will come the flat colours.
I’ve been pressing on with my eComic Concept Art using Manga Studio by putting a jacket on Benevolen:
More eComic Concept Art. I’m doing a full length concept of Sylen Benevolen now but I’m having a real battle with his legs. I’ve redrawn them about 4 times, hence the time spent is now at 3 hours for this.
Project ADC-1 Concept Art. Did some fine tuning, added a speech bubble and added a background. I will leave this painting now and move on.
I’ve done some more work on this map:
This is the world that my first digital comic (eComic) will be set in. And yes, the oceans are going to be purple!
