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Home from AC, I've started in on the first book of the Nordguard comic with a dogged single-mindedness, (which I attribute to black coffee and a refreshing vacation.)
This is a photograph of a nearly finished sketch for a double page spread, pages 9 and 10 to be precise.
It'll be stretched tonight and I'll start painting it tomorrow.
I won't be posting very much art from the comic's development here to FA, but you're welcome to watch the Nordguard Livejournal (here) or the Blogspot site when I have the chance to get that running (soon, here), or even the (sparingly used) Nordguard Twitter thingy.
Anyhow, back to the salt-mines I go and a return to radio silence.
This is a photograph of a nearly finished sketch for a double page spread, pages 9 and 10 to be precise.
It'll be stretched tonight and I'll start painting it tomorrow.
I won't be posting very much art from the comic's development here to FA, but you're welcome to watch the Nordguard Livejournal (here) or the Blogspot site when I have the chance to get that running (soon, here), or even the (sparingly used) Nordguard Twitter thingy.
Anyhow, back to the salt-mines I go and a return to radio silence.
Category Photography / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 850 x 583px
File Size 131.5 kB
You've got some quite incredible talent there..! o,o
It's like you have taken a picture of something almost (soon) like a photograph.. You have come really far already on this piece, pretty realistic snow and rock textures. How large is this actually? :)
The comic is looking really nice and promising, the site is looking nice as well.
It's almost surprising how well you made the map, and the rest of the little pictures. :>
Beautiful.
It's like you have taken a picture of something almost (soon) like a photograph.. You have come really far already on this piece, pretty realistic snow and rock textures. How large is this actually? :)
The comic is looking really nice and promising, the site is looking nice as well.
It's almost surprising how well you made the map, and the rest of the little pictures. :>
Beautiful.
honnknight
Oh my! That is very intense for a sketch. The methodical details you put into it really reflects the time and energy you put into your art.
I understand that you can't post everything about the comic here, but I would like to say that I love works in progress. It's so interesting to see the creativity in action rather than admiring the finished product as a whole and missing the fine details and intricacies of the work.
In summary beautiful piece so far, absolutely stunning!
I understand that you can't post everything about the comic here, but I would like to say that I love works in progress. It's so interesting to see the creativity in action rather than admiring the finished product as a whole and missing the fine details and intricacies of the work.
In summary beautiful piece so far, absolutely stunning!
I really wish a print of this photo [with contrast touch ups, of course] would go available on your DA because I would buy a print the instant I had the extra scratch.
I am pretty much a fetishist for work in progress pictures [especially with the artist actually still working] and ADORE this piece.
I am pretty much a fetishist for work in progress pictures [especially with the artist actually still working] and ADORE this piece.
Sort of what I do to lay out a painting, but yours has far more details than mine below..
Going from this --- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2306260/
To initial painting --- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2473057/
To just a bit more work --- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2481472/
There is an advantage, I've found, to sketches.. they open the imagination more so than a photo.
Going from this --- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2306260/
To initial painting --- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2473057/
To just a bit more work --- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2481472/
There is an advantage, I've found, to sketches.. they open the imagination more so than a photo.
oh god you stretch after drawin? you have balls ma dear. have you ever had the stretch go bad after the sketch? I dont sketch first because almost all my stretches go bad cuz this SHITTY watercolor tape. my art teacher had amazing tape :( what tape do you use?
beautiful work on the trees
beautiful work on the trees
I've always sketched before I stretched paper, mostly so I can scan the finished drawing prior to stretching it (plus trying to sketch on paper attached to a large board is a pain). I like to have a scan of the sketch just because when the tape does fail (which was about half the time), the paper usually can't stand a second soaking/stretching, so I'd need to trace/transfer the sketch onto a fresh sheet of paper.
I used to get this amazing tape in the UK but all the brands I've bought in the US are utter crap and never take, buckling every single time. I was having my family mail me gum-strip from the UK for a long time but I recently broke down and started using a staple-gun as an alternative to tape. It actually works quite well and I wish I'd switched earlier. Just soak the paper, stretch it out on a board (with tape if you like, for extra hold while you staple) then staple around the whole thing with about an inch between each one. I've never had such flat and flawless stretches before! ;]
I used to get this amazing tape in the UK but all the brands I've bought in the US are utter crap and never take, buckling every single time. I was having my family mail me gum-strip from the UK for a long time but I recently broke down and started using a staple-gun as an alternative to tape. It actually works quite well and I wish I'd switched earlier. Just soak the paper, stretch it out on a board (with tape if you like, for extra hold while you staple) then staple around the whole thing with about an inch between each one. I've never had such flat and flawless stretches before! ;]
really? and what tape are you using right now? mine sucks...i mean SUCKS. i doesnt even stick half the time!!! i have a staple gun. going to go out and buy some marine grade plywood so its thick enough to staple over and over and withstand the water each time. thanks for this tip
You have really good Imagination and perspective on your drawing's. What Is It again... Ah nevermind. ^.=.^ I love how you drew the mountains In the background It's always fun to draw them with the cracks and all that and the lil' towns. I've also been looking at your facial sketches and they are bloody awsome!
That looks extremely great Blotch! That kind of scene makes me want to go to a forest in Colorado, just to gaze through the thicket of trees.
I admire everything about that piece Blotch, i'm not that good at landscapes... at all~.
One question though Blotch, i have noticed things about the characters in your artwork, I was wondering if you could write back to me to: foxes76133[at]sbcglobal.net ? I'll tell you what i mean if you write back.
Thanx,
Foxes76133
I admire everything about that piece Blotch, i'm not that good at landscapes... at all~.
One question though Blotch, i have noticed things about the characters in your artwork, I was wondering if you could write back to me to: foxes76133[at]sbcglobal.net ? I'll tell you what i mean if you write back.
Thanx,
Foxes76133
This piece took around 5 hours to get to this point, I think. I'm not really sure though, I was sort of zoned out in drawing-trees-zen.
Sometimes it's hard to find that sketching "groove" and things take longer to get things on paper, other times every stroke is how I imagined it. :]
Sometimes it's hard to find that sketching "groove" and things take longer to get things on paper, other times every stroke is how I imagined it. :]
Zen drawing is good.
I just started to put pencil/pen to paper about a month an a half ago after a 20year haiatas and zoning out into the paper has been good for me too.
Isn't it wonderful when the image(s) in our head translate to the paper the way we want them. Most of the time it's not quite right but that's our fatal flaw as artists. hehe.
I very much look forward to the graphic novel project you are working on. With your tallents and determination it's going to be an epic feeling when your done your first book.
Speaking from experience, my 1st. novel is about 90 days away from being sent to its first publisher for concideration and I'm high on the rush of possibilities
I just started to put pencil/pen to paper about a month an a half ago after a 20year haiatas and zoning out into the paper has been good for me too.
Isn't it wonderful when the image(s) in our head translate to the paper the way we want them. Most of the time it's not quite right but that's our fatal flaw as artists. hehe.
I very much look forward to the graphic novel project you are working on. With your tallents and determination it's going to be an epic feeling when your done your first book.
Speaking from experience, my 1st. novel is about 90 days away from being sent to its first publisher for concideration and I'm high on the rush of possibilities
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