Here’s Sylen Benevolen V3 after a couple of hours of digital painting.
His skin tone is bit more grey than purple this time – I like it better.
Also I’ve tried to give his trousers a more Victorian military quality.

The explorations of an artloader.
I’ve started working on version 3 of Captain Sylen Benevolen from my digital comic project.
This is the line drawing. Next I’ll start blocking in the main colours.
This is version 4 of my Project ADC-1 comic book script. I’ve added a bit more dialogue at the beginning in an attempt to reveal more of the storyline early on.
I’ve also tinkered about with the moths. They are no longer flame proof, but they can release a thick smoke-like dust.
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I’m still on the mission to improve my art but have been trying to focus on subjects that are related to the project (dark temples, steampunk pistols and the like).
Tasks completed over the last 4 weeks:
Tasks to be completed over the next 4 weeks:
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My digital comic project has slowed down over the last 4 weeks since I realised I needed more sleep than I was getting. It’s about finding a good balance. I guess sometimes if you want to get to the finish line, you have to slow down a bit.
Tasks completed over the last 4 weeks:
Tasks to be completed over the next 4 weeks:

This is a steampunk soldier digital painting in Gimp of Atonis Trogade, a Captain of the Suborean Guard and one of the characters from my digital comic project. I’m not sure how steampunky this is though, I’d love to know what you think.
Here was my process.
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My digital comic project has been bubbling along over the last 4 weeks while I’ve been trying to improve my art skills.
Tasks completed over the last 4 weeks:
Tasks to be completed over the next 4 weeks:

This is another character concept from my digital comic project.
Her name is Umia Yulon and she is a steampunk girl from the forest nation of Suborea.
She took me around 6 hours to paint in Gimp plus 1 hour of surfing around for reference images.
Here’s a dark acolyte digital painting using Gimp.
I’ve been using some of the techniques I’ve learned from ctrlpaint.com.
These techniques were: