drawing and painting again

Today I have painted on the computer for the first time in weeks. It is so much fun, I just wish my shoulder wouldn't hurt like hell... This was done all on one layer... I love lilac. She (he?) doesn't seem to like it...

before I have drawn my part of the oh comic on the computer. Mainly because I didn't have the guts to do it in real inks. Secondly because the test results were ugly. I just can find the perfect combination of paper, ink and nib... but it turned out quite ok digitally.

a test inking on paper with nibs:

this is a page from the comic, drawn in pencils, inked digitally.

The script for the comic was written by screenwriter Christoph Mathieu, who usually writes for movies. It was his first comic script. I liked the cineastic descriptions and tried to make use of them in my pages.

You can find information on the comic book here (German only, sorry.) If you are interested, feel free to order one.

DRSP drawings part 1

given topics are always very good for me to explore stuff I otherwise don't dare to take on...

I am/was part of this blog and contributed some stuff. In no chronologic order.


topic: noisy protagonist; 80-90mins, Photoshop


topic: spell bomb; Sai and PS, 30 mins



topic: forest goliath; Photoshop



topic: plasma cliffs; Sai and PS

life drawing

on Tuesday was Spring Equinox. My potflowers like that.

shades of black and blue

a cunning plan

sketches

something from head to practice facial features.... fail fail fail is that an ear??


a sketch of Dany with her dragons on the balerion. got to plan more careful next time I do interior... or else I get annyoed like I did with this one...


something awfully naive and lazy...


I might work more on this one... but I did the pose from head and I have no idea whatsoever how to paint fat-covered muscles on the back, arms or calfs. Hands, too. Don't look at them T_T

The Brave

I like to call the early bloomers the Brave. Despite the cold they grow and bloom and promise spring.


Crocus


Hamamelis


Galanthus


Eranthis


Leucojum


Acer saccharinum - I'm always looking forward to the first tree blossoms. Couldn't find a low branch to make a macro shot. :-/


Scilla

And these are only buds, but they will flower soon enough.


Taxus


Chaenomeles


I took these photos yesterday and today. There are even more, like Erica carnea, Corylus or Viburnum × bodnantense. The next days are going to be cold, nights freezing, so spring won't come rapidly, but soon all the colours will be back, covering the greys and browns. And maybe I find more time to photograph this year.

First of March

can hardly wait for the trees to grow green again


Years 2005 - 2010:








And 2011:


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Sit and beg

Arco is capable of sitting on his hind legs.
I argue it is because he is overweight and thus has a convenient balance point. Like a roly-poly tumbler.

Here is a photo of him: [link]

We are warm inside

A little watercolour painting for trenchmaker with her cat characters.

Speed-Collab with Stryke

ping-pong collab with Stryke. It was our first collab and I'm quite pleased with the playful outcome...

Pop pop pop music!

Only because I listen to popular music doesn't mean I listen to it because it's popular, or does it?



hope I find some minutes to colour this tomorrow. Bed now.

EDIT: here is the colour version

K-Blooooosh!!

A 1,5h quickie piece I did today. It was fun to use the selection lasso in a free way, but thus the lighting is rather incoherent. This was more about colours anyway...

aaaah, pink is such a beautiful colour.

I also like this version without colour distinction in the flats.

ssssssexy suspenders

a pair of suspenders makes every man more sexy. and almost every woman...


it's for illustrationfriday's topic suspense. Since suspenders will most probably never be a topic, suspenders be it.

fast forward

when it comes to gouache, my brushstrokes are that of a 5-year-old...

Drizzt Do'Urden

I was a little afraid of this painting, but once I started I somehow got into the flow.

First I made some perspective drawings - I always thought, perspective was scary, but there are only a few rules you need to follow and everything will be fine. I the studies I only used one-point perspective, but for the image it looked better with three-point. Working digitally is again really wonderful in this regard.


When I had my grids and rough castle design, the next tricky thing was the character's pose, I really struggled with it like "how did he get up there?" "is it even possible to stand on such a sloping roof?"... etc. I had to correct this and that in the later phase when I rendered Drizzt. Had to resize him drastically to make it look less ridiculous.

I screwed up the composition, but didn't want to begin anew. In the end I tried to fix it by mirroring the picture (thank gods, he has a symmetrical design!) and choosing a more narrow crop.

I'm particularly happy with the character and his cloak and swords, though I never read the books or played Dungeons&Dragons. I could only draw him with the help of the still-SOPA-free Internet.


I used no textures and almost no special brushes in this, mostly I switched between two standard brushes.

more drawings from observation

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and I tried to make an analysis afterwards





and also this, I noticed in the thumb that the shadow areas are too bright:

Twrrrrrrrl Grl

for illustrationfriday's topic twirl