Continued

My new glasses have arrived - man, I'm so broke, it's not funny anymore - but at least I can see again. Actually I had planned to write about something totally different than simply posting a progress-shot of my hunter-fanart, but I'm too tired to write that up. Rahrah-rambling about todays comics, the image of women in comics, women as customers etc. Instead, I'll just link to this blog-entry here. She wrote it better on more wittier than I could anyway. So, go read it: http://mssnarky.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/a-response-from-a-female-comic-book-fan/

And here is my hunter. Changed the background from somewhere in the shadow-highlands to a random place with crystals. Would have loved to draw the highlands, but the lightning and the composition drew the attention too much to the left side and it felt rather odd. Since this is really not an excuse but fact *g*, I changed everything. But his face still seems flat, I don't know what I did wrong.

Still no new glasses

Fielmann broke my new glasses - not kidding. I have to wait another week or so until I get my new glasses.

Painted a bit again - just messing around really. My hunter looks waaay too girly Ö_ö hrm.

Updates

Didn't do much painting or drawing this week because I managed to break my glasses and need a new pair of glasses. Am still waiting to hear from the optometrist because I have to order special glasses, meh. In the meantime I found an old pair of glasses and don't have to rely on my sunglasses anymore. That's what i get for stepping on my glasses. And I really liked those, too :(

The one drawing I started working is the first illustration for the comic I'm working on. It's on A3 sized paper, scanning will be interesting on my old A4 scanner, hahah. The paper is amazing for blueline-drawings, I love it. Still... I'm a bit nervous about inking as I have my sweet problems deciding on the look of the project. When inking I usualy go for a full inked style, but I want to color the comic, so I can't work on fully rendered inks. And what style of colors should I use, what style of painting? Gah, so many options! *explodes*

Almost there

Re-watched "The Princess and the Frog" and liked it better than the first time I saw it. Guess, that just means you shouldn't let expectations ruin a nice movie.

Fanart unrelated, that's just a sketch of my hunter.

New bed is awesome

Yeah, my sleep is improving. Progress on the comic is slow... slooooow. At least I kind of drew a color sketch for the main character. Abd I tried to ink some test sketches... oh, the horror. I like inking, but scanning is a nightmare. Fine lines turn chunkyuglyomgwhatdididooooo and using those inks to paint is simply impossible. It's not a question of personal preferences, it just won't do. Perhaps I just don't know how to prepare lineart for coloring,I've been struggling with that problem for years and it's one of the reasons I turned to digital art.


Anyway, here is the first color-thingy. Used a Ryan reynolds photo as reference - he is the face model for the character anyway, so yeah. Maybe I can find a solution for my ink-scanning-problem later.

Mission accomplished

All sketchcards are done, everything is on the way to Schnee and I bought the new couch. As of tomorrow evening I should be happily sleeping in a normal bed again. My back will surely welcome that.

Guess, I'll be back to drawing the comic on Tuesday or something. Yay :D

Stressful Weekend ahead

This weekend is going to be hell. Screw that, the rest of the week is going to be hell. I have to finish a couple of Sketchcards for a convention, send them to Schnee, so that she can sell them, I have to do a lot office-stuff, sent that out too. I have to clean up my room because IKEA offers my new couch for HALF the original price and I don't want to miss out on that offer and I'm sure I have forgotton half of what I wanted to do by now. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to draw those sketchcards - they take more time to paint than I thought.

I sound like a horribly unorganized person. Guess, I am. At least I'm no longer the person to curl up  in a ball and hope things will simply blow over, the last months have been very, very helpful. So, I'll do the best I can do and see what I can finish by sunday.

Oh yeah, My comic-project is taking shape. As soon as I'm done with the sektchcards it's back to working on the layout-sketches. somehow I think I'll lack sleep this week *sniffles*.