Quickie's Stuff.

[Quickman]

Hey, remember that one shading exercise I said I may do something with?



I started to do something with it.

[borockman]

We really need a splash of blood here and there.

[Quickman]

Lemme get a background in there first, then I'll start spraying blood.

[Protoman Blues]

Whatever you're doing to it, keep on doing it! 

[Dr. Wily II]

Glorious pic.
And yes... Blood... Blood of the sinned...

[Jericho]

Quickie, you do all of your colouring in Photoshop right? *tries really hard not to ask buuuut...* When you're finished with this, I'd really like to see how you achieved your results.

[Quickman]

Yeah, I do all my colouring in Photoshop.  That one was mainly an experiment.  I did it like how I usually colour, only instead of just shading via large pools of colour, I dropped the brush size down to 3 pixels and treated it as if I were using my coloured pencils.  No real uniform strokes, just colouring and blending mostly.

Pepan's (the Kubaz with the crowbar) colour palette was the same one I used with a coloured pencil drawing.  In the coloured pencil drawing, I used some things I learned from Photoshop, like using purple to shade.  So, Pepan's shading is Orchid, from a box of Prang coloured pencils.  Using various shades of purple for shading produces some nice results.  It may seem weird to use it, but if you look closely, there are a number of things that, in the right light, will take on a purplish cast.

Posted on: November 16, 2010, 03:28:47 AMI plan to add a wall back there and some debris, but thus far...



You wanted blood?  You got blood. =P

[Protoman Blues]

That's just simply in-[tornado fang]ing-credible.

[Dr. Wily II]

Yes... Blood... Pleasing blood...

And seriously, this is way awesome.

[Blackhook]

Wow, just wow

[borockman]

BLOOOOOODDDDD!!!!

Too awesome for words.

[Quickman]

It has a background!



And my name's signed on the top crate.  Hid it in the graffiti.

[Dr. Wily II]

Wow... The smoke/steam/gas... Very fitting background, very brilliant touch on your name in the graffiti.

[Protoman Blues]

It has a background!



And my name's signed on the top crate.  Hid it in the graffiti.

Absolutely incredible.

[Blackhook]

*Insert random superlative here*

[Quickman]

And, for the hell of it, here's just the background sketch that I used for the above pic.  I scanned it in at 200 dpi, so if anyone needs a quick sewer/underground background and doesn't feel like drawing one, you can use this one.

[Dr. Wily II]

Use it for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
It's just so fitting.

[Quickman]

And how equally fitting that I was listening to the TMNT Arcade Game music while working on it.

[Dr. Wily II]

Just fitting indeed.

[borockman]

Background banzai!

So you never actually retrace the background on PS? It's so clean.

[Quickman]

I just scanned it in, darkened the linework by adjusting the levels, replaced any leftover blue from my non-photo blue pencil that the scanner picked up, further adjusted the levels, then made it black-and-white. 

[borockman]

Ah, make sense. but you did inked the background first right?

[Quickman]

Nope.  That's all pencil.  If the pencils are dark and clean enough, by playing with the levels (Image--> Adjustments--> Levels), you can usually play around with the sliders for Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights until you get the pencils dark enough to look like inks.

Sometimes, playing the the threshold (Image--> Adjustments--> Threshold) will sharpen up the linework, but that can also make it a bit jaggy.

Just some tips plucked from the DC Comics Guide to Digitally Creating Comics.

[borockman]

Whoa, so that's all pencil! I should definitely try that trick sometime. Thanks for sharing the secret. 

[Blackhook]

*Writes down notes*
Seriously I should relly start messing around with that graphic software...