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WORK STAGES on new HALF-ORC HEALER pages from THE LAST PARTY!
🕑 Added 2024-08-23 14:00:13 +0000 UTCSo, a while back I showed you fine folks some analog-media page roughs for a new test story from fantasy project The Last Party:
So, I worked up a pose rough for the Half-Orc Healer character in Clip Studio Paint on the ol' iPad:
...then I sent it over the ol' PC, where I worked up a CSP page on the ol' Wacom Cintiq:
...and started inking the page for a 20-minute shift* before getting slammed by the mysterious phenomenon I've dubbed "the Cintiq instant hangover." I can't even remotely explain it, but occasionally working on my Cintiq tablet rapidly induces a peculiar, presumably psychosomatic sensation eerily akin to a hangover, an effect that lingers for hours afterward; I don't get the same effect when working on the iPad or drawing manually. Mysterious, I say!
(*Note that I have to get up and walk around every 20-odd minutes when working on my PC; otherwise, the peculiar form of sciatica I've contracted starts acting up. Once again, I don't get this back-pain side-effect when working on my drawing table, whether with analog media or iPad.)
Anyhoo, after racking up the enigmatic "Cintiq hangover," I said "screw this" to CSP on the PC for the time being and switched over to analog media, transferring the rough to a sheet of Bristol board:
On the first two panels, I used a mix of inks (PITT Artist Pen and various Sharpies) and pencil shading, before switching over to inks-only for panel 3. In fact, I might go back and erase the pencil tones from panels 1 and 2, though the 8B pencil lead(!) I used might not be amenable to erasing.
Onward to the next analog-media page. Here's the rough you've (probably) seen:
...and my light pencil underdrawing for panel 1, leveled up in Photoshop to make its faint lines legible:
Onward to the pencil-free inks:
(Note: Just had to take my first 20-minute anti-sciatica break while working on this post!)
With this test page, I was mainly trying to get myself reaccustomed to working "inks-only," as opposed to the mix of pencils and inks I've long used on Empowered. However, this artistic approach is far too slow, time-consuming, and detail-intensive to be viable going forward; my next step with this test story will involve an attempt to "go looser" as I try to wean Artist Me off the tedious perfectionism that has long proven a bane to my productivity.
Next up, with page three of this Last Party short story I'm planning to work up the page in CSP (iOS) and see if I can't produce something akin to the previous page in digital media. Here's the initial analog rough:
I'm currently tightening up the rough on the iPad, and may have just stumbled across an insight that might prove useful for future digital-media artwork.
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, but something should be coming up in the next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?
Comments
Burninator
Now, the question is, will Emp Volume 12 beat the Dirty Pair Kickstarter to release?
Brandon Graham
Huzzah indeed! Most excellent!
Adam Warren
EMP12 has actually gone out to the printer, it seems! Huzzah!
Brandon Graham
This stuff looks fantastic- I'm looking forward to reading this one in print- as well as the next Empowered- which I keep seeing solicited in previews and then pulled away like the Peanuts football.
Adam Warren
Oh, yeah; inks are rarely all that tough tough on my hand, FWIW.
Sabrina Pandora
But progress! Is it at least easier on your drawing hand?
ppasce
She's so cute🩷
Lex of Excel
Fantasy tube top and hotpants FTW!
