woo! leon! i can't wait!

stellar drawing.

Thank you :)

Woah. O.O That's digital?! I bow to you, buddy. XD

Yeah, it's digital. I've been itching to switch back to traditional for awhile, but my desk is covered in about 2 feet of junk, and the path to it is blocked by more junk. I need to do something about that.

You're drawing Leon? From "the Professional?"

Wow... I'm still nervous about drawing real people - they have to be dead-on, or it just doesn't look right.

Yeah, I think there's a bit less leeway when it comes to human anatomy. People can pick up on mistakes much quicker if it's something they see every day, unless it's zombies. With zombies you can pretty much screw up any part of it and it still can look great... I love drawing zombies :P

heh, welcome back to FA, we missed your work. I have to say though what inspires you to do this crazy good work?

Thank you! I don't really feel inspired very often, but I guess my inspiration comes from seeing everybody else's work on sites like this and conceptart.org
I see all the awesome work people do and it makes me jealous, and nothing motivates like jealousy :P

I understand, im trying to get out of my simple line art style and get more into the realistic looks but its very hard :O!

Good work! Love the textures and colors. :]

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Yeah, dual monitor setups usually have this problem - you can't hardware-calibrate them independently, so one is always inferior/secondary. Basicly the one that can show the widest range of values (try this: http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php) without evident banding is the better one. Though it requires some toying with contrast and brightness controls (sometimes even video card's color correction settings, if it can't be avoided (it often results in banding)) to try and achieve the best results. The one that you're having a hard time calibrating by hand would be better off as a secondary.

Thanks! I worked with the links you gave me and I think I've got it down. I got my CRT calibrated pretty well now. This LCD screen is a lot sharper, but the values change across the screen depending on what angle I'm looking at it, so at any given time the lower portion is about 2 steps higher in value than the top. What type of monitor do you use?

Yeah, LCDs have this problem, especially the cheaper TN types. A decent LCD still costs a small fortune.

Don't get me started about this utterly narrow-minded "let's shut down all the CRT factories and go for horribly inferior LCDs, since people can't find 20cm of space on their tables, and image quality is the last thing they care for" consumeristic disaster... really, i could whine for hours...

Both of mine ar CRTs, but the secondary is dieing - i'll try finding a used one since my budget is limited. Some of them don't go dark with age as bad as the one i have, so they're still a viable alternative. In my experience, used LCDs are sometimes too close to mass-pixel-suicides, rendering them almost useless in a year.

Reminds me of Frank...