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Sketch Challenge
🕑 Added 2023-04-06 05:07:42 +0000 UTCI've started to realize that, since going pretty much fully digital on the comic, my sketching skills have deteriorated rather badly. I find myself slapping down some crappy linework, and then spending way too long "fixing" it digitally.
I should just have to tweak a few lines here and there, but instead I find myself practically rebuilding the entire drawing line by line.
A few extra minutes taking care on the original [digital] inking stage, could save an hour or more in the cleanup stage.
Plus I've been trying to convince a few other artists to do more 'extracurricular' work- art for art's sake, rather than never doing anything but what goes up in a strip. :)
So my first challenge was this- just headshots, any character, any pose, any expression. It's awfully rough, I no longer have the desk space to set up my clipboard, so I just had to use my lap- a drawing position I'm not used to.
I want to do this semi-regularly, and I'm thinking of going back to doing the original linework pen-on-paper, at least for the occasional comic, so feel free to suggest poses or characters.
Oh, and the Swampy & Jinx storyline will be going live on the main page in a few weeks, so no more updates here. It's all colored and there's even more strips, I think you'll all like it!
Doc.
Comments
scotswolf59
Sandy and Pirta dodging an incoming TP'd pizza?
This came up in my daily reads: https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/6421b06c50fae7000826e300 Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. - Kurt Vonnegut
Jenifur Charne
Ideas for sketches, fine. Coming right up, Doc. :) Jake glaring at paperwork Kasi chasing after something Red filling his whiskey flask Bruno unrolling some duct tape Gino holding a blackjack, tapping it in the open palm of the other hand
Catsnightmare
Good to hear about the Swampy/Jinx storyline! I was enjoying that, power armor junkie that I am.
RivCA
Let's see. Sandy looking out for what's next, Pirta at a dinner party, Doc blowing something up and forgot his earplugs, Jinx being a typical kid, Roger wanting to level some schmuck and wishing Gino was there instead, and Tawny showing the goods, knowing the camera frame is "off" position. Not bad, Doc.
