Right, so now that term is over, I've got a whole lot of spare time on my hands. And seeing as the weather's pretty shitty, I've been spending a fair amount of it working on topsecret. So I present to you two character concepts! The first is for ArthurSA, the first person to place a request on the brand new Art Department website, which I'll write about another time. Anyway, he wanted a gardener sort, with regular garden equipment but also a vaguely spiritual link with plants. Seeing as they generally encourage submissions to have 3 stages of progression (I refuse to call them armour), I thought, how about she starts off as a regular gardening type, then becomes progressively more in tune with nature, discarding her boots and spade in favour of natural magic and whatnot. I may have gotten a little carried away with the third one, though. In terms of style, I'm getting a little more comfortable with this clean line inking business. After sketching on paper I now use Paint.Net to get a fairly clean outline. Then I scale it up and go over most of the lines again in gimp, using a soft brush, before setting the layer to multiply and going in with color. Usually at some point I mix line and color up on a third layer if something's not quite right, or to add an extra detail here and there. Special effects and glows and whatnot have a final layer to themselves. Anyway, I kinda like the results : )
The racer gentleman guy was left over from another piece which again had 3 levels of progression. However, they weren't particularly interesting (he just gained a smarter suit and larger carnation). Plus, seeing as TopSecret is also going to be a card game and I found a card template on the forums that was pretty groovy (thanks mairsil), I thought I'd play around with presenting the guy via a mock-up of a card. Anjel did something similar, but I prefer mine :)
Anyway, I've been working far too hard on TopSecret and this blog post is much too long, but what the heck, I seem to be turning into a workaholic! : )
All digital.
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