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Oh - one more random note...
I spent the first few hours of today's art endeavors generating potential poses. I did this by going through an approximate metric buttload of Mello fanart that I got from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
keelieinblack and every time I found one whose pose I kinda liked, I'd flip to Photoshop and sketch it. Now, obviously, I don't want to copy anyone's pose exactly - not to mention somethng that's perfect for Mello would not necessarily look good for someone else. But I happen to know that as I work and rework a sketch, it moves around and things pop up. So once I got the basic proportions down, I'd stop looking at the fanart and as I refined, my pose would end up looking nothing like the original. This worked so much better than my usual method of sitting around and staring at the screen when trying to come up with poses that I think I'll incorporate it into my artistic vocabulary from here on out.
I'm going to attempt to do a bunch more between now and the con. They were an awesome warmup, and are a good reason why today's pics turned out so well, plus I cna print them out and bring them to the con to use as pose reference.
Oh - if you're interested, I sketched by doing something thatursulav mentioned she did when sketching - no erasing. You start with sribbling in the basic shapes with a color, getting as messy as you want, and then you hold down the ALT key, which turns your cursor into a paint dropper in Photoshop, pick up white, and work back in. Then you pick up the color and work in, and so on, so your pictures is messy and scribbly and has lots of little stray colored pixels lying around when you're done. :) Much better than erasing non-perfect lines: it frees you up to not worry about perfection and jsut be messy. And a lot of your picture is formed by using the white to work into negative space, so you often have a better 3D feel to it.
Anyway, Photoshop can make a contact sheet out of files in a folder, so I told it to make one of all the poses I did. You'll recognize two of them from the pics I posted earlier. There's some that didn't work and ended up the Hunchback of Notre Dame. You'll also note that while a few started suggesting characters to me, and I went with that, most of them didn't, so they're currently Generic Bald Guy, and this it looks like I have a folder full of Rude from Final Fantasy VII and that bald kid from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
ETA: Feel free to suggest characters for the various poses. :D Won't gurantee I'll use 'em, but any little bit of inspiration helps at this point.
And now I really am going to bed.
keelieinblack and every time I found one whose pose I kinda liked, I'd flip to Photoshop and sketch it. Now, obviously, I don't want to copy anyone's pose exactly - not to mention somethng that's perfect for Mello would not necessarily look good for someone else. But I happen to know that as I work and rework a sketch, it moves around and things pop up. So once I got the basic proportions down, I'd stop looking at the fanart and as I refined, my pose would end up looking nothing like the original. This worked so much better than my usual method of sitting around and staring at the screen when trying to come up with poses that I think I'll incorporate it into my artistic vocabulary from here on out.I'm going to attempt to do a bunch more between now and the con. They were an awesome warmup, and are a good reason why today's pics turned out so well, plus I cna print them out and bring them to the con to use as pose reference.
Oh - if you're interested, I sketched by doing something that
ursulav mentioned she did when sketching - no erasing. You start with sribbling in the basic shapes with a color, getting as messy as you want, and then you hold down the ALT key, which turns your cursor into a paint dropper in Photoshop, pick up white, and work back in. Then you pick up the color and work in, and so on, so your pictures is messy and scribbly and has lots of little stray colored pixels lying around when you're done. :) Much better than erasing non-perfect lines: it frees you up to not worry about perfection and jsut be messy. And a lot of your picture is formed by using the white to work into negative space, so you often have a better 3D feel to it.Anyway, Photoshop can make a contact sheet out of files in a folder, so I told it to make one of all the poses I did. You'll recognize two of them from the pics I posted earlier. There's some that didn't work and ended up the Hunchback of Notre Dame. You'll also note that while a few started suggesting characters to me, and I went with that, most of them didn't, so they're currently Generic Bald Guy, and this it looks like I have a folder full of Rude from Final Fantasy VII and that bald kid from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
ETA: Feel free to suggest characters for the various poses. :D Won't gurantee I'll use 'em, but any little bit of inspiration helps at this point.
And now I really am going to bed.