Chumps: I think your stuff and process is awesome. Thanks for having those slideshows up to show us the process! I really enjoy readings comments about how you think this or that works, or you hate and and scrape it off or paint over it. Makes me want to paint again.. but paints are so messy and expensive.. D:
blackadde: I love your stuff too! It's so.. delicious! :d I really like the shapes and flatness of everything. Papery effects are so pleasing!
Cool to see more people slowly joining in!
As for me, I did this recently, and was so self-proud since he's a pretty important character yet I hadn't made a coloured image of him in pretty much 10 years..! By the way, I ACTUALLY used a reference to get some facial structure down this time. It made things easier, much to my surprise, so maybe I'll use references again the next time!
The smaller image of GLS doesn't have the beard because I thought it looked weird resized at the time, but now that I'm looking at it, his face is kind of "bald" without it..
I know you don't need to see this, but I think it's cool:
I didn't really start many drawing human males until 1998 (it was all furries back then, as you can see in the bottom left, since that was easy for me!). So for about a year, I was more prolific with colouring in pencil crayons. Then suddenly there's this 10 year gap where I didn't make any coloured images of GLS, probably because I began making so many other characters.. It wqas also because I knew I had to update his uniform sometime, and I didn't know what to do so I put it off for years until now! YAY!
Also, my cousin and I decided to play around using Livestream!
Have any of you guys tried it? I know some other artists have tried it out, and thought it was a very cool way to learn people's processes. You can use it to broadcast whatever clips (even from youtube), but we used it to broadcast our desktops live while we used art programs. Apparently, you can also chat or have a mic on while doing it to talk to people.
So for this character, he's never had a formally coloured image but is pretty much on the level of "importance" as the guy above, we decided to actually complete his design. I did the lineart, passed it to my cousin to colour a bit, then had her pass it back to me to add a few highlights.
My account is here in case any of you wanna see what it looks like:
http://www.livestream.com/meibatsu
If you click on "on-demand", you can view the clips of my trying making the lineart and adding the last bits of shading.
So yah, maybe you guys should join up and I can spy on you while you draw!
