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The Final Name! And Question!!
15 years ago
The final name for the white dragon character is officially Magnus! With 8 votes, it trumped the other two lol. If you're curious about what the white dragon looks like, he's with "Rayne" in the gallery somewhere...here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4332194/
AND!! AND!! AND!!
I need, well, ask your help again!
Lets say, you wanted to ask me something about...anything really. I wanted to answer questions for people who were curious about art or how I do things or what not.
SO I'm posing for the watchers, if you wanted to ask me one question, put it in your comments and I'll take a look see!
Examples:
How old is Ira?
How do you draw this?
Is there a person you admire?
What's your favorite color?
What's your worst fear??
What's the one movie monster you ARE afraid of?
HA!
THINK please, lets put on our thinking caps.
Now, will I take all the questions, I dunno, depends on what you guys ask! Ha ha!
The FIRST Question! Posed by darkfox203949,
"how long does it take to complete a drawing? Mean average time..."
Good Question!
Answer: Average time is a couple of hours, if its a comic page with four strips and at least two panels per strip, about 4 give or take. If its a large pin-up or no bg picture, about an hour and a half, if its a picture with a complex bg, usually at least 3-4 hours. If its a new pose or a new character then 4 hours is the minimum, 5-6 hours maximum. There are some averages for you! lol
The Second Question(s)! Posed by Faolan,
"Question 1: would Ira like a training session with Faolan?
Question 2: Does Ira resemble a specific part of yourself?"
Answer 1: Well, maybe lol. I'd love to have an art trade maybe of them sparring?
Answer 2: Ira is the motherly/more strong side of myself. Most of this side comes out when I teach. In the comic she's from she is the leader of an entire clan of other tygars, so she's a natural leader and knows how to keep others calm and just wants to make sure everyone is alright.
The Third Question! Posed by hariman,
"Would you ever name a pet or child of yours after someone else or after a fictional character? If so, why?
Similar, but not so namey is:
Can you name a fictional character that has left a lasting impression on you and become a permanent favorite character of yours?"
Answers: Merlin, or Emyrus has stuck with me a lot. It used to be my screen name for everything but I've never named a pet after him. When I name pets its more their personality that comes out, and with kids names I'm SUPER specific like when I name characters. Other fictional characters I keep in mind when I write or draw or do any story boarding is...The Phantom from the Phantom of the Opera (book and musical) Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gwenvyll and Dogmar (horrible name lol but she's a hoot) from a dragon book series I read (Azzy got me into lol), Merriman from the BOOKS the dark is rising, B'Elanna Torres and Tom Paris from star trek voyager, Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly/Serenity, Dean Winchester from Supernatural (all these bad boy characters are popping up...)
Lots...lots of characters keep popping up lol. Those are the ones that really have stuck with me.
Question Four! Posed by GarththeWereWolf,
"how long does it usually take to complete a page and what steps do you take in creating them? Also, I just now noticed this in your "What you don't see" comic, but Jimmy looks kinda like a ferret version of Az. Is he based at all on him or is it just a coincidence?"
It takes me about 3-4 hours. I start with the layout of the page, so the bars and panels are first. I do this all in Adobe Photoshop, and use layers generally. First layer is just the black bars and white panel space. I do another new layer, and sketch with a grey color the subjects and what they're doing in each panel. Then I get another layer and re-draw them in black with more easy, crisp lines. I delete the sketching layer, and flatten the whole thing and save it to make sure I have the line art at least lol. Then I give the subjects flat color and delete the spaces around them to put the backgrounds in.
I try to make the bg's beforehand, on a separate picture and copy and paste them as separate layers to go behind each panel. This saves me time and it makes the bg's consistent.
Then I flatten again and save.
After that its shading time, so I add a new layer, make it only 15% strong (its opacity) and use black to shade the flat shadows.
Then its flattening, saving, and putting my signature in the corner.
And I shrink it down and save it on the "Save For Web" setting for the comic sites.
And Jimmy, he's actually a character made LONG before I met Az. He was actually developed from my brother's ferret Jimmy and he was mostly made to give Angel an excuse to leave Brady in the roomies hands lol, but then I started putting more personality and a past that a very close friend of mine has and let me use, so he's evolved into a character based on a ferret and a close friend. If he has Azzy tendencies now, its because I'm around Azzy LOL. Jimmy the ferret was a silver-albino cross ferret (he died earlier this year ) so that's why he's white with pick eyes.
Question Five! Posed by Sandboa,
"what makes Angel the happiest? What things do you enjoy and what are yer interests? What would just make you giddy with joy? What things do you wish for this holiday season?"
Answer(s):
Well, lots of things can make me happy. I like being active though, I'm a multitasker for sure so when I do things, I do a lot of other things at the same time lol.
Drawing/Artwork in general, Azzy lol, getting surprise presents, singing to the radio when a good song comes on (I know I'm in a good mood when I sing in the car lol if I like the song and don't sing to it, I'm tired or I'm not happy), writing, watching movies, reading books, playing Spyro and other games, watching Mystery Science Theater 3000, knitting, baking, cooking, love shopping for certain things, like shoes, art supplies, socks, messing around on the internet lol, talking to people who generally and honestly seem like good people!
What makes me giddy with joy...when the radio plays a song I love lol, getting a commission, trying something new/making myself be brave and accomplishing something important. Getting inspiration, no matter where it is, to do a piece of art or writing. When a new idea for a comic blazes into my brain, I get super excited and really just want to sit down and attempt to do it to get it out of my brain, usually however I'm at work or in the car when that happens lol hard to draw or write then.
I miss being in college, at school with my roommates a lot now. When I was there, my friends and I would just sit in the living room, watch a movie and do creative things even if they weren't together. I got a lot of the good vibes and creative juices from them. They like to write, so when we'd sit together and they would write I would write and draw as well. I didn't get my graphics tablet until after they graduated and I still had student teaching to do.
Holiday Season....hhmmm...the one thing I was hoping did actually come true already. We had a dog at work who had been there since October and needed a home very badly, but last week she actually was taken in by a foster family until they can place her permanently. Her name is Sadie, and she's a good girl. Mostly now I hope that at some point if people are able, they donate to something they believe in, whether its money or time or things. There will always be needy families and pets.
And I hope to get some commissions lol, that would be nice.
That's all I got so far!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4332194/
AND!! AND!! AND!!
I need, well, ask your help again!
Lets say, you wanted to ask me something about...anything really. I wanted to answer questions for people who were curious about art or how I do things or what not.
SO I'm posing for the watchers, if you wanted to ask me one question, put it in your comments and I'll take a look see!
Examples:
How old is Ira?
How do you draw this?
Is there a person you admire?
What's your favorite color?
What's your worst fear??
What's the one movie monster you ARE afraid of?
HA!
THINK please, lets put on our thinking caps.
Now, will I take all the questions, I dunno, depends on what you guys ask! Ha ha!
The FIRST Question! Posed by darkfox203949,
"how long does it take to complete a drawing? Mean average time..."
Good Question!
Answer: Average time is a couple of hours, if its a comic page with four strips and at least two panels per strip, about 4 give or take. If its a large pin-up or no bg picture, about an hour and a half, if its a picture with a complex bg, usually at least 3-4 hours. If its a new pose or a new character then 4 hours is the minimum, 5-6 hours maximum. There are some averages for you! lol
The Second Question(s)! Posed by Faolan,
"Question 1: would Ira like a training session with Faolan?
Question 2: Does Ira resemble a specific part of yourself?"
Answer 1: Well, maybe lol. I'd love to have an art trade maybe of them sparring?
Answer 2: Ira is the motherly/more strong side of myself. Most of this side comes out when I teach. In the comic she's from she is the leader of an entire clan of other tygars, so she's a natural leader and knows how to keep others calm and just wants to make sure everyone is alright.
The Third Question! Posed by hariman,
"Would you ever name a pet or child of yours after someone else or after a fictional character? If so, why?
Similar, but not so namey is:
Can you name a fictional character that has left a lasting impression on you and become a permanent favorite character of yours?"
Answers: Merlin, or Emyrus has stuck with me a lot. It used to be my screen name for everything but I've never named a pet after him. When I name pets its more their personality that comes out, and with kids names I'm SUPER specific like when I name characters. Other fictional characters I keep in mind when I write or draw or do any story boarding is...The Phantom from the Phantom of the Opera (book and musical) Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gwenvyll and Dogmar (horrible name lol but she's a hoot) from a dragon book series I read (Azzy got me into lol), Merriman from the BOOKS the dark is rising, B'Elanna Torres and Tom Paris from star trek voyager, Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly/Serenity, Dean Winchester from Supernatural (all these bad boy characters are popping up...)
Lots...lots of characters keep popping up lol. Those are the ones that really have stuck with me.
Question Four! Posed by GarththeWereWolf,
"how long does it usually take to complete a page and what steps do you take in creating them? Also, I just now noticed this in your "What you don't see" comic, but Jimmy looks kinda like a ferret version of Az. Is he based at all on him or is it just a coincidence?"
It takes me about 3-4 hours. I start with the layout of the page, so the bars and panels are first. I do this all in Adobe Photoshop, and use layers generally. First layer is just the black bars and white panel space. I do another new layer, and sketch with a grey color the subjects and what they're doing in each panel. Then I get another layer and re-draw them in black with more easy, crisp lines. I delete the sketching layer, and flatten the whole thing and save it to make sure I have the line art at least lol. Then I give the subjects flat color and delete the spaces around them to put the backgrounds in.
I try to make the bg's beforehand, on a separate picture and copy and paste them as separate layers to go behind each panel. This saves me time and it makes the bg's consistent.
Then I flatten again and save.
After that its shading time, so I add a new layer, make it only 15% strong (its opacity) and use black to shade the flat shadows.
Then its flattening, saving, and putting my signature in the corner.
And I shrink it down and save it on the "Save For Web" setting for the comic sites.
And Jimmy, he's actually a character made LONG before I met Az. He was actually developed from my brother's ferret Jimmy and he was mostly made to give Angel an excuse to leave Brady in the roomies hands lol, but then I started putting more personality and a past that a very close friend of mine has and let me use, so he's evolved into a character based on a ferret and a close friend. If he has Azzy tendencies now, its because I'm around Azzy LOL. Jimmy the ferret was a silver-albino cross ferret (he died earlier this year ) so that's why he's white with pick eyes.
Question Five! Posed by Sandboa,
"what makes Angel the happiest? What things do you enjoy and what are yer interests? What would just make you giddy with joy? What things do you wish for this holiday season?"
Answer(s):
Well, lots of things can make me happy. I like being active though, I'm a multitasker for sure so when I do things, I do a lot of other things at the same time lol.
Drawing/Artwork in general, Azzy lol, getting surprise presents, singing to the radio when a good song comes on (I know I'm in a good mood when I sing in the car lol if I like the song and don't sing to it, I'm tired or I'm not happy), writing, watching movies, reading books, playing Spyro and other games, watching Mystery Science Theater 3000, knitting, baking, cooking, love shopping for certain things, like shoes, art supplies, socks, messing around on the internet lol, talking to people who generally and honestly seem like good people!
What makes me giddy with joy...when the radio plays a song I love lol, getting a commission, trying something new/making myself be brave and accomplishing something important. Getting inspiration, no matter where it is, to do a piece of art or writing. When a new idea for a comic blazes into my brain, I get super excited and really just want to sit down and attempt to do it to get it out of my brain, usually however I'm at work or in the car when that happens lol hard to draw or write then.
I miss being in college, at school with my roommates a lot now. When I was there, my friends and I would just sit in the living room, watch a movie and do creative things even if they weren't together. I got a lot of the good vibes and creative juices from them. They like to write, so when we'd sit together and they would write I would write and draw as well. I didn't get my graphics tablet until after they graduated and I still had student teaching to do.
Holiday Season....hhmmm...the one thing I was hoping did actually come true already. We had a dog at work who had been there since October and needed a home very badly, but last week she actually was taken in by a foster family until they can place her permanently. Her name is Sadie, and she's a good girl. Mostly now I hope that at some point if people are able, they donate to something they believe in, whether its money or time or things. There will always be needy families and pets.
And I hope to get some commissions lol, that would be nice.
That's all I got so far!
~Angel~
~Angel~
Question 2: Does Ira resemble a specific part of yourself?
~Angel~
2. You're a teacher? What subject?
I'm a student teacher English myself.
2. Art Teacher
~Angel~
2. Cool ^-^
~Angel~
Do you have something like msn or hyves? If so, could you send me your details through note? It's easier to discuss things like this through an IM.
~Angel~
Anyway you seem pretty consistent at updating your DD comics so I'm sure you have your own groove down for making em~ but I'm curious, how long does it usually take to complete a page and what steps do you take in creating them? Also, I just now noticed this in your "What you don't see" comic, but Jimmy looks kinda like a ferret version of Az. Is he based at all on him or is it just a coincidence?
~Angel~
Hum questions it is you wish? So what makes Angel the happiest? What things do you enjoy and what are yer interests? What would just make you giddy with joy? What things do you wish for this hollday season. I know these are rather random, but I like to get to know my friends better.
Nice to have yer name for yer new dragon. Cool stuff. Thanks for letting us help you with that. You b safe and stay warm my lovely friend! You and Az have a most excellent day!
~Da Boa~ cares!
~Angel~
~Da Boa~
~Angel~
~Da Boa~
~Angel~
~Da Boa~