turbo commission
Oct. 23rd, 2003 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashSo I was slouching around on Furrymuck yesterday, putting off Important Stuff, when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tugrik asked me for a favor - he'd just realized it was revar's birthday THAT DAY, not next week. He asked me to draw her in my own slinky cartoon-noir way, maybe a little monstery. I owe Tug some favors, so I did.
bandwidth: VCL
Design-wise, I tried to stay away from the illustrations Zjonni had done for the original Watts Martin stories the character came from; for a while, it seemed like that was the only way anyone in the world-o-furry knew to draw bats. Not working texturally helped to push it into my direction, of course. As did shamelessly stealing a few of Mike Mignola's tricks.
It will hopefully get colored sometime soon, because it kinda needs it. I might re-ink it, in fact; I had to use a thicker pen than I wanted, because the one I was going to use needs cleaning. *sigh*
.7mm marker pen, floodfill.
[ a little later: I just went to test the pen I originally wanted to use, and it's working now. Yay! I guess I just needed to give it time for the ink from the new cartridge to propagate down to the tip and start flowing, or something. Time to re-ink. Should go faster this time since I'm not fighting the pen. Good thing the pencils involved pasting over a post-it, which forced me to ink onto a separate piece of paper with the lightbox. ]
tugrik asked me for a favor - he'd just realized it was revar's birthday THAT DAY, not next week. He asked me to draw her in my own slinky cartoon-noir way, maybe a little monstery. I owe Tug some favors, so I did.bandwidth: VCL
Design-wise, I tried to stay away from the illustrations Zjonni had done for the original Watts Martin stories the character came from; for a while, it seemed like that was the only way anyone in the world-o-furry knew to draw bats. Not working texturally helped to push it into my direction, of course. As did shamelessly stealing a few of Mike Mignola's tricks.
It will hopefully get colored sometime soon, because it kinda needs it. I might re-ink it, in fact; I had to use a thicker pen than I wanted, because the one I was going to use needs cleaning. *sigh*
.7mm marker pen, floodfill.
[ a little later: I just went to test the pen I originally wanted to use, and it's working now. Yay! I guess I just needed to give it time for the ink from the new cartridge to propagate down to the tip and start flowing, or something. Time to re-ink. Should go faster this time since I'm not fighting the pen. Good thing the pencils involved pasting over a post-it, which forced me to ink onto a separate piece of paper with the lightbox. ]
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Date: 2003-10-23 01:35 pm (UTC)i love this composition, nice and strong. more plz
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Date: 2003-10-23 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-23 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-23 03:20 pm (UTC)I love the foot on the head bit. :)
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Date: 2003-10-23 03:43 pm (UTC)Lovely image.
Date: 2003-10-23 07:53 pm (UTC)But now I'm going to have an image of Revar posing like M. Monroe on a subway grate, trapped in my hindbrain for the rest of the month.
Not that that's an entirely bad thing...
Re: Lovely image.
Date: 2003-10-24 09:24 am (UTC)Well, I wasn't thinking of it consciously, at least.
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Date: 2003-10-23 11:01 pm (UTC)I just love it when it comes to bats! Draw some more! One for me please? You never drew me... if you dont believe me that I love bats ask this bat! (http://www.livejournal.com/users/ultravioletbat/)
The Bat
Date: 2003-10-24 09:28 pm (UTC)