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Some old sketchbook inks that I scanned in today. I probably uploaded them earlier from last year or so, but that was before I found my scanner again so they were kind of crappy phone pics. So, figured to just scan them in where they will (hopefully) look pretty and not blurry or weird.
Then again, these were my first sort of baby steps with using the pens I had gotten, so there’s probably some stumbles while I was working out how to use them.
II A great king once thought to capture the beast for their own. Each year they lashed a gilded chain to the creature’s neck, fearful it would flee.
As the years went on, the weighty chains dug into its hide and drove it to misery. The beast grew tired of the king’s jealousy and took wing.
“You cannot leave!” The king laughed, “You are bound to me no matter where you turn!”
“Fool!” The beast boomed as it circled overhead, “You may have stifled every route I make seek to take away from you, but ensured the swiftest route to my freedom is through you instead!”
Dread dawned on the armored tyrant, but they were too tangled in the shimmering restraints to flee. The devil’s wings pitched and lowered its pike, driving the fatal point straight through the king’s heart.
Finally finished this monster of a project. This had to be one of my more intricate cellshade projects, and it didn’t come out half bad. During the process the chains sort of made me a bit nervous in figuring out where to put them and how.
I will be putting up a breakdown gif of this soon and a link to it on my INPRNT gallery. For now there’s a few detail shots of some parts that I wanted to show off a little.
A breakdown of the piece from this post.
I’m still putting work in on this! i just keep getting sidetracked by school and other things. I managed to get the base colors for Emperoar down, though I may have to fix the chest later if it gets in the way of how the lighting layers function. Already I’m liking how this is coming out compared to my first larger cellshade with them.the colors don’t look as noticeably scribbly I think.
For context this is the ref I’ve been using for Emperoar’s colors/markings:
sometime I’ll do some ref stuff with them, until then they’re just a mid-shapeshift concept sketch with one biiiiig wing.
Another update on that one pic I’m still whittling away on. Outside the time I stream I’m putting down the color overlay layers on this. So far I had to cut a chain into two parts since there was an overlap issue I picked up mid lighting.
However, oddly enough PSE is fine with those as extra layers, but absolutely loathed the sketch layers that were taking up space in the background, and on top of that the lighting layers will push the layer count past the amount that was there when I was keeping the sketch layers on the same file to begin with.
This program is a riddle wrapped in enigma.
quick update on this, background has color now and some shading stuff.So far I think this background is an improvement from the previous piece I made. I experimented a bit more with bashing the stock vector shapes in PSE into rock forms.
Currently I’m working on the lighting for Emperoar outside of the character design challenge. It still needs some smoothing out and refinement.
I managed to get all the base colors down for the characters today, and I started work on the background. It’s a bit backwards in method but it seems fine so far. The background is a bit abstract/conceptual looking on purpose to keep the focus on the characters.
I’ll be going over it later on with color before moving on to figuring out the lighting for the characters.
Today’s stream wasn’t all too interesting, but I managed to boost my DJing skills a little in terms of song picking at least. some of the linework and shading had to be edited as I went along the chain coloring and realized there there issues with layering.
So two new parts were made for the cloth on the skeleton, and the chains were edited a bit where they were grasped by the gauntlets, and other portions were edited so they looked like they were behind certain sections of armor instead of in front to reduce clutter.
The chains are supposed to be chaotic and entangled around the skeleton. It’s a symbolism thing.
