Ghost Town completed

I finally finished Ghost Town, and you can find it here.  It's not quite what I was going for, but it's fairly close and honestly I was losing patience.  I doubt the rest of my buildings and neighbourhoods will have quite that level of detail.

To cleanse my palette, I also did a character design of Boss Lyubochka.

I think I'll try to tackle a bar interior next.

Tracy Butler is an Art Goddess

For she has done a thing! And much like most things she does, it is a beautiful thing!

Very illuminating to see her process, not the least because it really shows you exactly why so much time passes between her webcomic pages.

100 Posts!

This is the hundredth post I've made on my blog.

Um... Yay, me?

Sadly, I still don't have any completed arts... But I can show off the stages I've gone through with my current art project, trying to design a neighbourhood I call Ghost Town:

Here's the initial sketch.

After that, I decide on my palette and get all my flat colours set down.  (This one I've shown before...)

Next, I start adding the big details.  (You may notice I've changed the dimensions of the barber shop and lamp post on the left side of the painting.)

And then I start zooming in on the little details (at this point, mostly the brick-work in the buildings.)

And that's where I am now.  I've still got a long way to go before it's done, though.

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And in other news, the premier is already starting to talk about school-related cutbacks - and has already frozen the Early Adopter School Initiative.  That's the program for getting laptops into classrooms throughout the province.  Ain't that just swell?

Project Rooftop

Project Rooftop is a really fun site frequented by an assortment of artists (professional and amateur) who are all head-and-shoulders better at the craft than I am.  The site is dedicated to remixing/redesigning classic superhero costumes - trying to get something new and fun for an established hero or villain without losing the essential qualities that made the character's original costume unique and recognizable.

Each entry is judged by the site's panel of judges, who discuss their own particular philosophies about what makes a good costume in doing so.  I don't always agree, but it's usually very insightful.

All in all, it's a site I keep going back to in order to, both for learning and inspiration.

That's a redesign of Luke Cage by Ray-Anthony Height.  Luke Cage hasn't really had an actual costume since the eighties (which was this).  Check out the PR page itself for many, many more.

Space Cadet

I don't have anything to show of my own, so here's a couple of videos I find pretty inspirational.  They're by Joshua Middleton, who's one of the best cover artists in the comic business.  He's pretty much a master of the craft.  Part 1 is here:


And part 2 is here:



Pretty cool music, too.

Ghost Town WIP

(WIP = Work in Progress)

I don't have anything finished to show off for this Friday, so I'll show off what I've been working on lately.  Now that almost all of the character designs are finished, I've moved on to doing building and location designs for important areas in the webcomic.

The first I'm doing is Ghost Town, which is a no-man's-land in New Avalon.  It's the site of a supervillain-caused disaster that's nobody lives in anymore - people who go in tend not to leave.

Still got a lot of work to do on this one, not the least of which is because I'm doing it differently than I've ever done these sorts of illustrations (meaning, I'm not going to be using any hard black lines, and I'm using a limited palette.)

  

Got a lot of work left to do, obviously.

Razorback

Here's Razorback, leader of the Silver Park Hunters.

I really enjoy doing those Tron-esque glowy effects. I overuse them, I know, but they're just so much fun. A guilty pleasure, I guess.

The Hunters

Owing to the family tragedy and the exhaustion from driving to Ontario and back, I only have one arts to show... But it includes three characters, and is more elaborate than what I normally do.

Adder, Shrike, and Bulldog - the three top Lieutenants of the Silver Park Hunters. Their leader, Razorback, is not depicted... I'll be doing one of him (and his sweet ride) later.

Razorback, incidentally, is the last character design I have to do before I move on to setting designs.

Blarg

Internet problems are preventing me from accessing things at my leisure. I'm making this post from a friend's connection; hopefully by Monday things will be fixed.

Anyway, two new drawings:

Vitalia Portrait

Sewer Encounter

Friday Art Time

Only two to share from the past week: Guardian and Tremor.

I have... Hmm... Five more character designs to do. Then I've got some location designs, and a cityscape, and I'll be ready.

Incidentally, I've now passed a 1-for-1 ratio of favourites for my DeviantArt account. My rating is 1.18. Which is... a good sign? Though probably not a good sign that I care about my DeviantArt stats... :/