What do you think?

MrEff · Post by **MrEff** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:01 am

For those of you that know my comic/art you also know that I've recently come into ownership of a tablet. I figured out a couple tricks and what not . Just looking to see what people think of my latest creations using the tablet.

First there's this that I made for my girlfriend for V-Day:

And this I cam up with as part of a character design for a friends cartoon:

The next step in my journey is to master shading...

Hopefully this will all build up to me drawing more, and even looking towards doing a comic-book style of webcomic...

-MrEff-

ChainSaw · Post by **ChainSaw** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:18 am

I'm jealous. But I don't think I would use a tablet enough to justify buying one. or maybe I could. but anyway, it looks like your putting it to good use. and that valentine is AWESOME!!

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:59 am

If you've got one of those art programs with layers (gimp, Photoshop, etc) I recommend you start messing with the Multiply mode right away rather than wait 4 years like me:

Put a layer above your artwork, set its mode to multiply, set its opacity to 50% or so, and start drawing over your artwork in black or dark grey. Shading, glorious shading. And you don't have to pick a new shade color for every color in the artwork. Hallelujah.

MrEff · Post by **MrEff** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:36 am

allan_ecker wrote:
Put a layer above your artwork, set its mode to multiply, set its opacity to 50% or so, and start drawing over your artwork in black or dark grey. Shading, glorious shading. And you don't have to pick a new shade color for every color in the artwork. Hallelujah.

I've been using the "Multiply mode" But I'm gonna try out that lil trick tomorrow....

Thanx too Chainsaw!

-MrEff-

MrEff · Post by **MrEff** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:32 pm

Lil update as I've been "drawing" more.... here's one that spilled out of my head I like to call ToastBoy:

As you can see I've started to play around with shading....

Comments? Suggestions?

Praise?

-MrEff-

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:58 pm

The shading's more or less beyond reproach. The Toast looks odd the way it's facing orthogonally towards the picture plane. Try tilting the bread!

The text is veeeeeery nice.

You're making progress; keep it up!

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:10 am

allan_ecker wrote:If you've got one of those art programs with layers (gimp, Photoshop, etc) I recommend you start messing with the Multiply mode right away rather than wait 4 years like me:

Put a layer above your artwork, set its mode to multiply, set its opacity to 50% or so, and start drawing over your artwork in black or dark grey. Shading, glorious shading. And you don't have to pick a new shade color for every color in the artwork. Hallelujah.

i've been doing that with a mouse.

when i got a tablet i switched to changing the brush opacity (like down to 30-40%), then having 1 color layer all together.

so it was like line art, color, blank background.

RobertBlake · Post by **RobertBlake** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:55 am

In addition to what Allan said about the toast, the angle of the the right hand looks a little odd to me. This could be fixed just by turning it more towards the viewer.