The explorations of an artloader.
I’ve given Iyeon the Winged Panther some more definition on his hind legs and also given him some armour. The membrane of his wings now also has a redish tinge to it which I thought would look more natural – not sure when I last saw a winged panther in the wild though …
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.
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Project ADC-1 update. I’m still making an eComic. The last 2 weeks have been spent mainly on concept art and have shown me that this project is not going to plan. My digital art process is taking too long so I’m looking for ways to speed it up without losing too much quality.
Work Completed During The Last 2 Weeks:
Work Planned For The Next 2 Weeks:
If you are reading this post then the site migration has completed successfully!
The performance on my old (free) webhost was becoming so painfully slow and troublesome that I finally decided to put my hand in my pocket and go for a paid webhosting service from Vidahost.
The WordPress migration actually worked quite well once I’d got my dumb fool mistakes out of the way!
Hopefully now I can upload new content without having to submit it 3 or 4 times.
My initial feel for the new host performance? Smooooooooooth! It just goes to show: You get what you pay for!
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:
