Week 17 Completion

Looking at this now, I've decided it was well worth it to dedicate a week to the background alone. It looks great! Probably my favorite of my digital backgrounds so far. Maybe landscapes aren't as terrifying and boring as I thought they were.

Week 17 Coming Together

There's something satisfying about seeing the drawing at this stage with the character actually in the setting. ...that's about all I've got. Oops. It's not done yet.

Week 17 Makes Like a Tree

...oh come on, I'm doing a landscape. I had to make at least one dumb joke about it. More are completely possible.

This step actually took a while because I did a layer of shadows and highlights and then realized that it looked completely terrible and lazy. Then I re-did it and highlighted/shaded everything separately with specific matching pallets. It looks a lot better.

Week 17: Scenic Route

Backgrounds are not my strong point, especially not landscape-y backgrounds. But I really want some pretty "happy little trees" for last week's drawing. So I'm taking the plunge and dedicating a week to making something that will hopefully be nice and at least moderately believable. Painting class don't fail me now...

Week 16 Retraces Its Steps

Yesterday I had another look at the digitally inked version of this drawing and I totally hated it. So today I inked it on paper and then went ahead and colored it.

However, it's the last day of Week 16 and the background didn't happen. So instead I'll spend Week 17 trying to make a decent forest-y digital painting to put behind him. Works for me.

Week 16 Line-Up

I think if I can avoid it, I will not ink any hand-drawn sketches digitally again. It took me hours to do this, but by hand it might take 20-30 minutes. My hands shake too much for me to do well with my tablet pen apparently.

Week 16 Shows Some Skin

The turtle-neck type shirt looked awful so forget that thing. Last time I drew him with a bow he was shirtless so we might as well keep that up.

I'll check for anatomy errors tomorrow but for now I'm just excited to have the base sketch done before I add color and stick him in a tree.