A Silent Sketch on Page 15 (Updated 03/13/2012)

[IMForeman]

Changing this thread to a consolidated thread. Used to be "Bad Wolf." The Bad Wolf picture without words still attached.

[IMForeman]

Forgot to mention this last night, since the connection was so bad.

I worked really differently on the coloring and linework on this piece. Instead of doing an "ink layer" and several color layers, I really only worked the figure on a single layer. Instead of hard edged shading, I did some really soft, low opacity shading, building up the gradations from dark to light, and adding "ink" lines only where I thought they should go once they were built up enough. The only layers were the background, gold tint on the figure, energy effects and text.

In the background, I tried using discord colors. I saw an article that em pointed to, and decided to try it.

I'd really like some feedback on this one. What worked, what didn't. Thanks!

[Bubbashelby]

I really like the coloring you've done here. The lighting effects are great. I think the text detracts from the piece though. It tends to dominate the image.

[IMForeman]

I really like the coloring you've done here. The lighting effects are great. I think the text detracts from the piece though. It tends to dominate the image.

I have a version without the text. Does this improve it? Thanks for the comments about the colors, though. I appreciate it.

[Bubbashelby]

yes it does IMO - now Rose and her power are the focal point.

[IMForeman]

Sweet. Thanks. I really appreciate it.

[TheRonin]

Yep, I prefer the "no-text version" as well.
Great illo, IMF, really like the linework and the color treatment on this

Cheers,
Francesco

[Darren M A Calvert]

Another vote for the text-free version. Nice piece.

Should be an interesting season with 3 different companions in the mix.

[em...]

My favourite post of yours. Ever.

The colours are (to use an appropriate phrase) fantastic!

[IMForeman]

My word, I've gotten some good remarks about this one. This single layer render may be something worth pursuing further. Maybe I'll work some stuff up over the weekend.

[Jarhead1]

Nicely done. You keep getting better and better.

[IMForeman]

I'm going to use this thread for all my art instead of creating new ones. Just to keep things consolidated. So, here's a new picture of my character Enigmanaut, this time with his helmet.

Going for a cell shaded, animation frame look with my Enigmanaut work. I adapted a technique from the Bad Wolf picture above to the cell shading. I drew the image, inked it and did the majority of the color work at a low resolution. Then, I increased it to a much larger resolution and redid the inking with finer, sharper lines, and touched up the color.
How do you think it looks?

Larger version:

[Bubbashelby]

That looks great - i like how the light casts a little blue on his legs/side.

[IMForeman]

That looks great - i like how the light casts a little blue on his legs/side.

Thanks. I've been working on lighting recently. Looking at Josh Middleton's work, it's hard not to want to learn more about light. I wanted to use it to sell the solidity and depth of the figure a bit.

[drugmassacre]

i love this new colouring style for your work! This last image is really neat. I am not a huge fan of all of the glowing bits though, it's a bit much