Iiiiiiit’s Ryder! I should have just gone with a pencil sketch. I really should have. Anyway, this was traced from the Stage 2 win photo of Garmin. My brother likes this picture. Because it involves realism of a sort.
…I really should have gone with a pencil sketch.
Finished The Two Towers. On to RotK!
Here we go again! I wasn’t happy with Firestorm at all, yesterday, so I tried again using some different methods. I based this one more directly off the sketch I made during Keyboard Lit class (March 14). Casual dress this time! And, casual Northern dress, because Griffonlanders almost always wear white robes, not shirts with buttons. : P He must be visiting. Anyway, no fur this time, but the rest of him is much better. The feathers in the background are supposed to be as if from Sunspot’s wings. But the purple is just there for contrast… no purple on Sunspot!
The Wacom tablet is the greatest creation for the computer EVER.
Heeheehee, I just played Guild Wars with Zeb and Tai. It’s like meeting celebrities! XD Anyway, we played through lots of missions, starting with the one my brother and I were stuck on. We saw a dragon! It’s very cool to play with people who are not in the same room. : ) So we are a little closer to the end of the game.
Commander Firestorm, the General of the Griffonland and first of Queen Yoia’s Griffon Knights. Not pictured: his buddy Sunspot. Firestorm is simultaneously wild-hearted and cool and collected, making him an ideal choice to keep the Griffon Knights in hand and ready to be unleashed. He (obviously) likes putting things in his hair, but doesn’t worry too much about his appearance otherwise, as long as he is sharp and ready for anything. He fusses more over Sunspot, making sure his griffon buddy is well groomed and fed, and making him wear crazy headdresses in festivals, which Sunspot entirely enjoys.
Well… I’m not really happy with this picture. About all I am happy with is the feathers and the fur. For the fur… this great tutorial helped me out a lot. It’s kind of like drawing flowers! Except then you make them hairy! …That sounded really weird. Anyway. His hair started out promisingly but then it kind of turned into that. His braid should be looser. Maybe I shouldn’t have started with anime-style hair. Yeah. That would do it. Also I fussed over his eyes way more than eyes should be fussed over in a 400×400 quickpaint, and they still look weird. But they’re better than when I started… I started with them too small. : P
At last, it is done. Mostly. I didn’t do anything special with the lighting or adding textures, but I may rethink that. Now that I’ve been zoomed in on her face for so long it doesn’t look right; there are proportions off. I did tweak the placement of her left eye, and that’s about all I can do for now without entirely redrawing it. Which I could do too. But… I wanted to try to make the existing lineart work if I could.
Or you could say I’m lazy. 😛
Mmkay! I’m going to take a nap. I stayed up too late last night watching a friend show me LotROnline, and it looks awesome. I can live with all the made-up stuff, because Glorfindel is actually blonde, and the hobbits are adorable, and the world is really huge and really really beautifully done. As my friend said, they knew they were creating the game for LotR nerds, so it had to be good or else. : )
Felt like drawing a pretty pretty man without lines. Drew Lucci from Dreigiau/Darkstar. Started him in profile, got some good hair, realized that the profile view was not cutting it at all. For some reason I look at my profiles and see cyclopses now. It’s weird. Anyway, so I redid his face after I did the hair and it seemed to work. Threw in some wings, after I remembered that he has some.
How to draw without lines: draw your lineart like normal. Then throw a few layers on top at about 80% opacity. You’ll still see the lines but that should only last you long enough to put down the shading to create the shapes using… well, the good people use more paint. I just use dodge/burn, and it shows… but I use the blend tool also pretty liberally, so it turns out not too bad in the end, I think. (Then turn up your transparent layers back to 100% opacity. You may need to adjust the colour/saturation at that point.)
I think he could actually use more face on his right (our left) side. Also his shirt needs fixing. But whatever, it’s done now, I’m not touching it anymore tonight because I need to go to bed because I play for two churches tomorrow! And then I go to someone’s concert! And then I have to watch a race! So no spoilers! : )
Mwahahaha, behold my powers of fangirling. : P
The guy in front is supposed to be Ryder Hesjedal; following him is one of the Schleck brothers (pick your favourite 😉 ) and last but definitely not least is Cadel Evans. …And then there’s me.
My first time drawing a bicycle. : P Yus, I copy/pasted. Whatever. IT’S ALL FOR THE KAWAII.
Wow. Just wow. So many crashes today, and bad ones, too. I am shocked. I feel so bad for Hoogerland… I bet he pulls out. And poor Vino! He made such a great effort yesterday, and I was still looking forward to seeing him ride on. Phil and Paul say that with a broken pelvis, his cycling career is pretty much over; he was planning on making this his last Tour anyway, but it’s really sad to crash out (even dramatically). And then everyone else who went down… sending them hopes that they heal quickly!
BUT. Thomas Voeckler is the most adorasquee cyclist in the business. Andy’s cute, but Voeckler… wow. Did you see how happy he was?!?
Adorable griffon alert, if you haven’t already seen it.
I was going to draw someone else, a new character, but it turned out looking like Menad, so I kept drawing him as Menad. Somewhat better than last time, neh? And look, I tried doing a little bit of fanciness on his shirt. I lit him from below because it looks cool. Let me remind you, he isn’t bad. Just moody and emo and somewhat mixed up.
I’m feeling lyrical, so I think I’ll update his profile.
Another page! …First panel is the best. I did it last.
Sure, you’re not scared, Psyche. : P
Remember, she can’t see him at all. She has no idea who is in the room with her. He’s completely invisible to her.
Going to go watch the Tour and then play with my dolls. I should make some cyclist dolls. 🙂
Happy Canada Day! Because Yllamse was interested in the other picture of Yoia, here is the same lady from the front. …I should have added more detail to her belts.
I cannot shade white cloth using the method I’ve been using. This could be a problem for when I do other Griffonlanders, so I had better change it.
I’ve started following a webcomic called One Question! It’s pretty cool! (Oooh, pretty wings, and at a believable size, too! I think Flairé’s envious! XD )
TOUR DE FRANCE TOMORROW WHEEEEEEEEE
GETTING UP AT 5:00 AM TO WATCH IT
Oh em gee, what is this? A comic page? Mindblowing. So anyway, this is a different scene than the last one; that’s why Eros is creeping in like a creeper. (smacks) Bad boy! Anyway, it’s been a little while since the last scene, several days, at least. …In the comic, sillies. Not just real life.
Gonna try really hard to get to the end of this chapter on some kind of schedule.
P.S. Guys, Eros has not been a very good role-model so far. Please don’t imitate him.