Today was an awful day so I had to keep my sanity through drawing.
As I have said before, I need to draw a comic for my comic class. It is called Hush Puppy.
The class project won't be long...about 6 pages is the maximum. (Sucks because I want to go deeper into the story.)
Anyway, to get my mind off Bunny, I started to draw the cover of the book.
I came up with this:
This is the original drawing (still incomplete.) What I have learned is that I cannot be trusted with inking the first piece without practice. So what I do is that I make copies of it (making the drawing lighter as well) so that I can practice inking as well as coloring the picture. I don't want to risk ruining it, like I've done countless times before.
My main focus is the girl (my main character), Jetta. I think her right eye is a little too far from the center (another good reason why I make copies. I tend to notice mistakes hours later.) But let's pretend she's perfect. I know her body and clothes could use some work, but I'm taking everything one step at a time. We are going to ignore the other character because I am not really sure what he will look like. I draw girls better than guys so I have a lot of practicing to do for him.
This is a copy that I inked. I gave her a lot of hair by accident. It was fun to draw and I couldn't stop myself. =P You can see her better and you get a better effect from her eyes. I think I did pretty ok. I think I trust myself to ink the original soon.
I then copied the inked copied and I added color. You can see more clearly why I added that weird stuff on the bottom of her skirt. Once again, not perfect, but better than I have done in my opinion. I took black marker to give her hair more intensity and colored in the rest of it w/ a colorless blender and a 20% warm grey marker. Then I took my peach marker and took away her paleness. I'd color her clothes is I had...colors... >.> (Prismacolor is expensive >_<)
And that is what I was working on these last few hours. Any comments?
Post a Comment