I’m plugging away at this comic that my buddy Zach is hiring me to draw and I have to say one of my favourite things about this page is the paneling he thought up
idk I just think it’s nifty
I had to draw some fanart for this amazing webcomic! I just had to! <3 If you haven’t read it yet the name is THE PROPERTY OF HATE and it is fantasticaly beautiful! Here it is: http://rgb.thecomicseries.com/comics/first/
Read it. Love it. <3 Here we have the two main characters, the Hero (the child) and the hottest television headed monster you will ever see RGB. Hope you all like it and if you see this Modmad know you are one of my favorite artists online! http://modmad.tumblr.com/
/makes obnoxious high pitched sounds
my crappy sketch process press J to skip
pretty much always but I’m bad at tutorials and I’m tired so here have a bunch of WIP screencaps or something
so yeah first get that diggity darn basic sketch down, here I pushed Fred’s pose to look more like the cartoony double-bounce step walk I reckon he would have but his proportions are pretty humany so he’s not too different structure wise
needed reference for how the cuff would crease so I took a shot of my own sleeve (egads whodathunk you can use yourself as reference)
I tend to draw things a few frames after the reference if it’s moving; it’s a habit from animation, but basically to get away from that stilted rotoscope look that some heavily referenced pictures get I try to ‘animate’ the picture and draw it as if it’s the next key frame in a sequence, so here the coat has been pushed forwards by Fred’s hand and the folds are following that through
slapped on the rest of them clothes because ain’t nobody wants a naked android strutting about, also he’s not going to be on a catwalk in the picture so I threw in some blustery wind to help that hair and action line out. You’ll probably have noticed that I also leveled out the floor so his feet are both more duck-toed and at a different perspective
throw in a loose map for the lighting and there’s your goddamn scribbley-ass sketch. After this I red line it and fix all the mistakes I’ve made before going to inking and yes there are a metric shit tonne in this one but I’m hella tired so this is as far as I got :|
hope that helped somehow but yeah, reference; it’s great, use it, but don’t copy it, copying leads to dead awkward poses that your character wouldn’t do and really you don’t learn as much from copy pasting even if it’s by hand
Collecting these because no one understands their genius. They make me want to go to school.
my favorite one: That is Mahogany!
One of the finer difficulties of drawing expressions; how to make your child with over sized eyeballs look sleepy and not stoned
