Anonymous asked: do you use a special brush to paint the tree or is it like a weird filter thing?
I wish it was the latter I use the default fuzzy brush with scatter and wet edges applied at a low-ish opacity
and then it’s just lots of layering and varying the amount of spacing/size to make it look more in/out of focus in places, I have come to refer to this as the ‘splutch brush’ in my head :D
I usually do a harder contour sketch first so I know what my key values are going to be, but through trial and error I’ve found that just going pellmell at mixing up the colours like I would with chalk pastels results in the best effect so it all ends up being on the same layer in the end
there are going to be times in the future when someone clever who knows lots about photoshop and painting will come up to me and say ‘hey you know that tree? why did you do it that way wouldn’t it have been easier to just xy + z it’ and I will take their face in my hands and press my nose against theirs and say
also if I ever make you feel sad reading the comic just remember that I feel bad every time I draw Hero smiling because it reminds me of how infrequently I’ve been able to
due to the fact that the final image is going to be shrunk by a million and one percent I feel it is important to indulge you with a WIP of the next page in the form of a short object head jumping for all his 5'5" self is worth
but a rational prism-headed dude would totally dig living in a place made of fractal transparent material! my right brain counters, swiftly ejecting the competitor safely out of the nearest window available to be dashed mercilessly on the concrete below
