School has started again (my last semester, provided I don't screw up) and so everything is overwhelming and scary.
To relax, I've smashed myself head first into a huge project, because that will totally help.
Really, I'm just still working on an ongoing thing...
Oh Hell, Donna!
I thought I'd take a moment to show you the general steps of how this works.
1.) I write a script. This means I loosely say what I want to happen, then break that up into scenes, then break THAT up into dialogue and panels.
2.) Crappy, sketchy thumbnails that only make any sense to me, like this:
Pages upon pages of that crap.
3.) I take a break to drink some tea.
4.) Pencils! I usually get way ahead of myself and start doing the inking of the text in this phase, just to be sure there is room.
...Don't do it this way. I make terrible choices in my art.
5.) I draw all the borders, finish up the pencils...
6.) Then I ink the pencils, erase EVERYTHING (meaning, Rob erases it) and scan it all in.
7.) Occasionally, I'll do a drawing separately to then use as a panel.
8.) Likewise, the backgrounds (usually watercolor) are done separately, and then placed in where they need to be.
9.) We have flat color (usually digital)... Though I have no examples to show you right now...
10.) We have shades and highlights and backgrounds, oh my!
The end.
I also have a font/typeface of my handwriting, but I've only ever used it on one part of the comic, or places where I've screwed up while inking. Hmm.
For a little while, and perhaps again soon, I was altering Magic cards.
I don't even play the game, but I love the art and some of them were fun to play with.
So, here are a few examples because this is my blog and I can show what stupid things I do with my time.
First up, bunnies and that... thing. With scared people.
Here, I had a request to make this dude into a lady. The colors are actually a lot nicer in person, but oh well.
Sometimes it's just fun to extend the artwork...
And lastly, NEKKID. I think this was the first one I did, so I wasn't really... sure what the Hell I was doing.
A painting/sculpture... found object? Thing?
I made a thing.
Fabric paint is my friend.
For sweatshirts to sport my favorite things:
To fixing shirts that previously fit me but had stains:
To making ridiculous things just so they glow in the dark:
Weeeee!
Question:
What is gouache?
Answer:
The technical definition is apparently "A method of painting with opaque watercolors mixed with a preparation of gum." I find this definition unhelpful and lacking, so lets add to that.
Gouache is a word which has too many vowels.
Gouache is like working with watercolors but being able to go back in and work with a piece hours later, like oils. The colors are vibrant, which reminds me of acrylics.
The paint is expensive, but a little tube can last a very long time if one is using them more like watercolors.
So, it isn't automatically transparent and can be used without thinning it out. An artist can choose the opaqueness of the paint pretty easily. Sometimes the colors lighten when they dry and then can be layered or not in stages. This can be a much thicker paint than other types of paint.
Gouache is what artist Alex Ross often used for his famous superhero portraits.
I'm not as good with gouache as Alex Ross.
My dancing girls are done in gouache:
To compare, here are a couple things done in watercolor:
Watercolor pencils:
I have no idea if I answered your question adequately.
As you've seen before, my Knight and I view ourselves and each other in ways that probably don't make much sense outside of our very skewed context.
For example, he is my love potato:
And I am his little pizza roll:
And, as you've seen by now on this blog, I just don't see the world in a completely sane way in general.
...
I need to do more artwork to let this... whatever it is out. I've been in school for too long and I'm getting restless. The last semi-decent art things I've done were a painting for my housemate:
And a thing for my mom's nursery school class:
...And some assorted commissions here and there. Portraits for a friend's podcast were fun to do:
That podcast is the Shuadcast, by the way. It'll be up at youtube.com/Shuadcast
For now, check it out here: Shuadcast!
So, I've been doing stuff.
But I need more! *makes greedy hands* So I've got some painting ideas in the works, and once all this school related insanity is done, I'll be working on comics.
www.deddrie.com is getting an overhaul, for example.
Donna might actually go somewhere.
The pages right now mostly look like this:
But should look like this:
To give a better idea, this is what the page looks like with the background kinda in, but the foreground not yet colored:
Lastly, I'll be working on one fourth of a comic for someone else. Here is a preview of the kind of stuff that'll entail:
Woo!
