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  • 08/21/12 - Poll ended; /cod/ split off as a new board from /pco/.

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36448 No. 36448
So, I'm starting my search for co-op placement and one of the places I'm applying to wants work samples. So, among the usual magazine layouts and whatnot I've also decided to include a collage of some of my sketches (Illustration and sketching ability were among the skills listed in the job description) so that means I've scanned a bunch of stuff...
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>> No. 42324
>>42323

Oh no! How...How can I fix it?
>> No. 42326
>>42324
Lucy looks a little too stocky.
I liked her earlier look like >>38916
There she looked like she could jump and run, and adventure, but this current incarnation doesn't look too athletic for an adventurer.
>> No. 42327
>>42324
Klef and Izzy seem to dangerous now. They were kind of cute before, which I liked, but now Klef is buffer and more imposing, while Izzy is sharper and more alien in appearance, that is to say, here features are less appealing and relatable, as opposed to just more outre.
As for Lucy, I agree that she's looking a bit too stocky. More than that though, her design is leaning more into the "bratty kid" kind of area, which is a fine personality trait in moderation, but isn't really appealing in bulk. Personally, I'd try to keep her at least a little more refined and mature, which means ditching the new hairdo, and rethinking those eyes.
Felix looks fine though. Definitely a step in the right direction.
>> No. 42330
>>42327

Okay, I see where you're coming from. I definitely agree on Izzy and Lucy (I was wary of that haircut I gave her from the moment I did), so it sounds mostly like a few of the experimental tweaks I did didn't work out so well.

I will however argue that a more imposing Klef is not necessarily a bad thing as it makes it all the more hilarious when he does non-imposing, normal things. Imagine Klef in his new design out clothes shopping with Izzy, carrying all of her bags as she tries on sweaters before they both go to the food court to get some funnel cake. That angry grimace on his face the entire time. I would argue that scene is at least 1.5 times funnier than it would be with Klef's old design.

Thanks a ton for the feedback by the way (That goes to Jinman too), I'm gonna nail these designs down one of these days!
>> No. 42333
>>42330
Okay, I see where you're coming from with Klef. Carry on.
>> No. 42356
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I've put a few of the suggested changes into practice, though altering everything requires redrawing and I wanted to do something with the lineart I had before doing that.

Changed the colour scheme up a lot and altered Felix and Lucy's footwear. Also tried to slim Lucy down a little bit (Thank you transform tool) so she was less bulky.

Will work on making Izzy a bit less menacing.
>> No. 42358
I really can't stand Lucy's face. I didn't like the Garfield-type eyes from >>41918 & the other comics either but the new hairstyle really pushed it over the edge. She just looks super obnoxious in a really unappealing way, and I think the sports shoes and bike shorts might make it even worse.

Her eyes looked a lot better when you were drawing her like in
>>39352. She honestly looks a million times better if all you do is cut the lines from the bottom of her eyes and make her pupils a bit bigger. The visible irises in >>41735 were also okay. As far as her head/face goes I think >>38201 was the best one, but I actually do like that you've made her less... I don't know, sexy over time? And a curvy body type contrasts well with Felix's thin lanky frame and Izzy's top-heaviness. People have complained about it before and you haven't changed her back to the way she was in the OP, so I'm assuming you're going to stand your ground about it no matter what because you like her better this way and I think that's fair. Power to you.

I like Izzy and Klef's new designs better than their old ones too.
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>>42358

Nice, thanks for the feedback. Looking back I have to agree with you on Lucy's face. The main problem I find is that the Half-circle eyes work very well in black and white but are a bit harder to pull off in full colour. I'll have to figure out a way to make them work in colour...

Also, I don't think I ever posted the thing I did for Pulp...
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I made a painting
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I've got a comic in the next issue of [url=http://premierpulp.wordpress.com/]Pulp![/url] Get hyped!
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It's gonna be fucking sweet and I am going to post the first few pages here
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Brilliant planning in action...
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"QUIT BREAKING EVERYTHING!"
"We don't know how!"
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>> No. 42584
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MILLIONS DEAD! NONE INJURED!

The End...
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I need to clear my head and drawing is the only thing that helps.
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Damn. Why has the server been such boners the past week?

Anyway, I made some smut
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And it looks like we're (Finally) fixed. More smut to celebrate!
>> No. 42697
>>42696
>>42691
Yay!
>> No. 42763
>>42696
Oh my♥
>> No. 42833
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I got commissioned to draw nakeds
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I'm just doing this one for fu (Only half finished)
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Oh hey, the site's back! Celebratory fan art!
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Oh, I also finished this one

(Until the rest of you chuckleheads come back it looks like I have this board all to myself!)
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Working on my next Pulp submission. Gonna use it as a learning experience in spotting blacks...
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Hey look, it's the comic I did for Premier Pulp...
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>> No. 43132
>>43131
That's actually really clever.
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If any of you mofos are gonna be at TCAF tomorrow keep an eye out. I'm gonna be handing out mini-comics.

Also space art is surprisingly easy to make...
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>>43132

Thanks! I've sort of playing with the idea of giving Felix a certain degree of medium awareness...Not enough to actually accomplish anything mind you
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spacin' and artin'
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"Awful chilly out here, isn't it?"
"This looks like a job for...JACKETS!!!"
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>>43270

Now with 100% more colour!
>> No. 43295
>>43281
Hey, you know percentages don't work like that, yeah?
Saying that there's 100% more of something actually just means there's twice as much, and twice nothing is still nothing.
Also, what the Sam Hill is "colour" suppoused tou mean?
>> No. 43296
>>43281
Yo Poet, what's your technique for shading? It looks a bit streaky/murky. Something that's easily fixed but it depends on what's causing that appearance to start with.

>>43295
Don't write posts just to correct someone's grammar because you always look like a tit and you're inevitably wrong anyway.

Colour is the way everyone but the Americans spell color, you dumbass.
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>>43296

I believe the streakiness was probably the result of a foolhardy attempt to add texture to the drawing. Here's a rough outline of the process I followed to colour that drawing. You can see things start to fall apart around step 6 or 7...
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>>43297
Ok
General things:
- You're using too small of a brush to shade. It's a million times easier to blend colours with a large brush. This will eliminate most of the streaky stuff on its own. Use big confident brushstrokes!! Not tiny fussing ones!!
- Don't manually turn down opacity unless you're mixing colours in a palette. Keep that at 100% and leave it to pressure sensitivity. Fixing opacity at a lower level tends to make the colours fade out and look like rubbish, too. You'll have greater control over the colours you put down if you leave it alone.
- You have a really cartoony, blocky style. Keep in mind that more detail is not always better; colouring should fit with the style of the linework. Keep it simple!

Colours:
- Your shadows aren't very dark, and the value differences between light and dark vary a lot depending on the section. For example, her pants have a fairly obvious value change, but her skin hardly has any. You can see this easier if you temporarily merge the layers and desaturate the image.
- I made some palettes from >>43281, and I found that the most saturated colours are the midtones. When the midtones are the brightest, it makes your image look really washed out. Generally, you want the highlights to be the brightest, and shadows to be darker and less saturated than the midtone.
- You don't need a lot of highlights. It's ok to hardly have them at all.
- One of the simplest things you can do to make simple shadows look interesting is reflected light. Shadows are always darkest at their perimeter and gradually fade (unless it is a harsh cast shadow or something of that nature). Objects take on the colours of their environment too. So you can take the base colour, or a mix of the base colour and background, and apply it on a layer over the shadows to create a nice soft effect. Try doing a dark multiply layer for shadows and then lightening them this way.
- Maybe try experimenting with other types of layers. Multiply is kind of the go-to guy but you can get nice effects with others too if you know how to use them. For instance Multiply tends to make the colours beneath it less vibrant, but Colour Burn keeps them nice and bright; if it looks shitty to start change how it filters things with the Fill% in the layer window and it responds differently than when you simply lower the Opacity% (there are a few layer types that do this). I think the result of Colour Burn, after the right Fill% adjustments, looks a little like marker.
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>>43307

This is amazingly good advice. I gave the original drawing a quick once over using some of the techniques you outlined and I think there's a huge increase in quality.
>> No. 43658
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And I'm back, I have been working on a secret project that will hopefully be seeing the light of day sometime nest year!

In the meantime have arts!
>> No. 43659
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This here is Mimi Sparks: An adversary of Felix and Lucy's who has cool electric abilities and too high an opinion of herself!
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And this is Tilda. She's a friend of Felix and Lucy's who also works as a treasure hunter for the same company. While she seems really eloquent and composed upon first meeting she's actually highly neurotic and prone to paranoia about her job. She also turns into a stammering wreck whenever things start going wrong.
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Lucy and Felix's unnerving nemesis: Marlboro Slim
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Klef and Izzy, showing off their winter digs.
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