Dark vs. Light

One of the things that I'm liking the most about The Kubert School, is the fact that they teach all of the traditional weapons that a comic book artist has at his disposal, even the oldschool ones. So, since the beginning we are doing everything by pencil and inks... that is, traditional pencil and inks, not digital. 

This is the first assignment I had since I got into the school, and the second one in which I used inks. So bear with m, it has been a while since I last inked anything. 

Here it goes:

First of all, as usual I start with a small thumbnail sketch of how I imagine the composition to be. I wanted to show the teacher that I have some knowledge of the male and the female anatomy, as well as a hint of the use of perspective. Besides Spawn is always fun to draw, and I have never drawn Power Girl before. Plus, she is hot. 

Once I had the poses right, I blew up the image in photoshop and procede to use a light box to trace the figure with blue non repro pencil. Once I had that ready, I rendered the details using mechanical pencil and several B pencils, and one and another H pencil. 

That was like a week ago. Last friday I started the inking stage (which is due tuesday) and finished on saturday. It took a while, but I enjoyed every minute of it. Here some pics and details of the process.

Final image is at the top of the page.

Inked with a combination of speedball India Ink and Pelican Ink, plus a number 2 brush and microns.

Art Jam 9: Morrigan Aensland

eldropper's version

2 weeks ago, the Art Jam subject changed suddenly from dudes to babes so, we obviously picked Morrigan as our subject of study. I did my piece and EdsFox did his, and as usual , we colored each other's drawing. But he requested as a personal favor that my coloring this time was more of a painted style, instead of comic book-ish. This was indeed a challenge for me, but I wasn't gonna back out of it. At the end he liked my work. 

But, I did wanted to color mine too, because I just thought that a Cell Shaded look it would end up being perfect for the drawing. Here is how it ended up.

Artline (by me)

Edsfox Version (full view pls!)

And here is Edsfox lines colored by me in a painted style. 

At the end, it doesn't matter which is your style, or what techniques you use, what matters is that you feel right doing it and that you like the result of your work. I't doesn't have to be perfect, it is just another step closer to achieving your goal of becoming a better artist.

I'll update this post with a video of the sketching of the art line later on.