DrDestiny

Re: Lucha Hero

thanks was that "autographed picture of el espectro his work too?

No, that wasn't one of mine I'm afraid

Re: Lucha Hero

Get reading it... In a week or so, I'll launch a competition here (if there's any interest) for the best Luchador - full character pic for the winning entry in the LLH style.

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Thanks for the kind words everyone - it's really appreciated.

I'm stopping this experiment for a while, as I've been contacted to produce the art for an upcoming mini-series. Quite exciting, and a bit secret. Thanks again to everyone who has looked at my stuff.

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

So which menhir is it supposed to be? Men Scryfa?

It's based on my sketches of Lanyon Quoit, which is actually quite near my home really, but I've transplanted it to a more windswept - and made up - location.

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Trying something a little different I guess. Opinions and criticism very welcome, but these are early days.

I'm not happy with how my stuff's been looking so I'm just going to let this strip evolve and see where it goes.

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

That' date=' I believe, is my Captain Marvel (a lightning-slinger).[/quote']

 

That's the fella! Hope I came close to how he's supposed to look

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Redlight looks amazing' date=' DocD, well up to ur usual high standard[/quote']

 

Thanks - I'm really pleased with how he came out

 

Next, still getting used to this style, this is one of Bob Greenwade's characters.

 

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

A painting of GhostHack's Redlight, done as a thanks for GH letting me use and abuse Red' in my DocD strip.

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Is he swimming or is he drowning? I can't really tell.

Well, from the player:

What I like most is the coloring is dark and somehat creepy and he almost looks in distress which is actually fitting 'cos he hates being underwater hehe!

 

in our RP where Tyler's mind is actually lost floating amidst the sea of death that is the mind of the Water Demon that was bonded to him. If our RP were a comic, this pic would so be the cover of the current "issue"!

Really, I just colour-in what's in front of me - most of the time, the credit for any good bits should go to the character's creator

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Next up, Frostfire...

Re: Kingdom of Champions 6th Edition?

I'd love to see a new edition too. As a Brit, I've always thought that these Islands were always both under and mis-represented in comic lore

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

...points at a thread, plug plug... http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73548

Re: How to encourage RP?

When I was running Champions, I found "Blue-Booking", as described in Strike Force to be the most effective way of starting players role-playing.

Because they're writing down what their characters are saying, rather than speaking it in a room full of friends, I found they were much more open to playing aspects of their characters that did not initially come out in standard play.

They started by just having sessions with me, then branched out into conversations via the books with each other, and soon all inhibitions about role-playing were lost and the sessions became much more vital.

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

I spent more time on the inks for this fella, including liberal use of the airbrish in Photoshop to sort of cheat in some of the darker tonal areas on the face. The rest of it's all done in ArtRage, with a couple of custom stencils used as I've just noticed them...

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Next up is Tyler, for UncannyMadman. I think my problem with this style is time based. I'm unwilling to spend more than a few hours on a pic, as I'm fundamentaly lazy. Whereas my usual wobbly-line / flat colour style is OK with that time frame, I don't think this is. I think I need to spend a day at least on a pic to see if this style's worth pursuing.

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Next up is Shock. Again, in the new painty style, which I hope I'm getting better at.

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Next up, Inflamable Jack.

This is the third attempt with this new style. Not at all thrilled with how this turned out, so I may well re-visit it.

Re: SuperPatriots around the World

There are a few UK flag-faces I can think of of the top of my head:

Captain Britain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Britain

Union Jack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack_(comics))

Jack Staff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Staff

There are probably more...

There's also the Freedom Force version of Minute Man: http://www.ugo.com/images/galleries/freedomforce2characters_games/1.jpg

Also from Marvel, Nuke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke_(Marvel_Comics)

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Okay I don't normally critique, because people sometimes take it the wrong way (they take it personally like you are insulting them or something), but I think you are on the right track with this style, so I am going to give you some constructive criticism. So take it for what it is worth. I wouldn't waste my time offering criticism if I didn't think you were on the right track.

 

I like the painting style. At one time I thought about doing something similar, but with my current style of drawing, it just didn't look right. But with yours, it is the perfect style to use.

 

I think if you used a different brush shape the coloring would look better. With the brush you are using here, it looks a little messy. I am not sure what program you are using to color with, but Photoshop allows for custom brushes, and has many built in one to choose from. The style of brush you use can totally change how a painting looks. I know you are going for messy, but this looks like it is out of control messy, which distracts the viewer too much, in my opinion. I think this is mostly due to the brush shape you are using.

 

Also, I would try lowering the opacity a teeny bit on the higher level layers (highlighting). This will allow for some midlevel incidental tonal blending which will create the illusion of more depth/mass in the illustration.

 

Also two little nitpicky things:

1) the background is showing through the character's jacket, it makes his arm look thinner than it should be, and doesn't make him look solid enough (have mass) to me.

 

2) White. I think you should only use pure white on things that shine, or on metals for reflection. I don't think pure white has its place anywhere else in a painting. It works on the sunglasses (reflection), but it doesn't work on the jacket or the pants. I don't think you were intending to have reflections there, and thus it looks out of place.

 

Otherwise, I think you are headed totally in the right direction with this style.

Thanks for the feedback Poison, much appreciated.

I'm using ArtRage (a kind of Painter-clone) rather than Photoshop for the colouring, but Photoshop for the drawing, rather than Illustrator. Photoshop does indeed allow for many many custom brushes, but doesn't handle digital paint the way this program does, and you're right, I'm going for loose.

Since I started illustrating for myself again, I've struggled to break away from the suff I was doing for clients - very tight, very clean and I thought very dull. The wobbly-lined style I adopted with Illustrator and the mouse were a direct challenge to my earlier way of working.

What I'm trying for here - and not necessarily succeeding with - is a more direct painty style. I'm not using multiple layers, I'm keeping the "paint" wet and I'm trying to remember all my old painting classes, including building the tones from dark to light, and building skin-tones from a green (or blue) base.

I understand what you're saying about it being too messy though, and I may switch to a multi-layer approach to tighten it up a little. Or I may go more messy. I think it needs to develop either way

What is certainly the case is that I'm having a lot of fun experimenting with a new style!

I really appreciate the feedback - all crit is good - it forces you to re-look at what you've done through new eyes. I know I'll come back to this afresh tomorrow, and hopefully know where to go next!

Bob - let me know who you want doing! IU need guinea-pigs

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Here's a re-imagining of the Riddler, as requested and described by Mjolnir74.

Obviously, this is done in my new-fangled style, and I'm well aware you may not like it - if that's the case, shout out and I'll re-do him in my old style!

Re: Dr Zero's Art Thread

Fantastic stuff!

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Third bit of progress. This is as far as I'm taking this one - it's been a very interesting process (at least for me) to soo just how the combination of the Tablet and the paint-y program work together, and hopefully, having learnt a lot doing this, the next will be better. What I think is needed is to treat the piece like a 'proper' paint on canvas piece - something I literally haven't done since art school, so that's what I'll do with the next pic.

Thanks for letting me indulge myself here on this

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Thanks for the comments - all criticism is really appreciated!

Moving on a bit, with more work done on the face, and some blocking done in the background and on the arm. Still a long way to go before I'm happy with how it's going I think. Opinions very welcome.

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

Something a little different.

I recently got a Wacom Tablet to play with, rather than my usual method of working - with a mouse, and this is the start of a piece. Still to be added - lots! ( his hair, his staff, the background, more painter-y detail, ect, ect)

Usually I choose to use flat colours for a variety of reasons, but have been feeling a little let-down by the results recently. Opinions and criticism welcome...

Re: in the spirit of christmas!

I have no excuse for the following pic...