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Published: 2011-05-30 03:09:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1530; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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Something a bit different.By way of a gift for me old muckah Temple.
This started life as a portrait study. I was trying to get a better feel for drawing hair, which is something I generally suck at. Working up from a blue lead pencil, I gradually blocked in the shapes with a regular HB lead.
As I'd done the sketch on some drawing paper with a good bit of tooth on it, I decided I'd break out my beloved brush pen and try to put a bit of texture into the inking.
After that, colours were done in Photoshop, with judicious use fo the airbrush setting and my favourite brushes.
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Great work my man!
By the way, I was greatly impressed by your colour work on the latest Multiverse outing...
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Thanks for the kind words, fella!
I think, as time wears on, I'm slowly learning how to do this colouring thing. Now, if I could just get it up to some sort of speed...
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oooh, nice! Not a McBoobnasty, definitely!
What I find astonishing here is that you OBSCURED ALL the parts I struggle immensely with when drawing females, and never ever seem to get it right - transition from the "away" boob toward the "away" shoulder, the area where neck, collar bone and shoulder join on the "near" side, and connection/disappearance of "near" boob into the armpit (which is, btw, the yummiest part of female anatomy 
Dirty tricks!
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Oh, I know a few dodges, alright!
I learned a tonne of stuff doing this. Like I say, it was really all about finding a way to render hair. I wanted to get just the right balance between realism and stylised comic book art. It's not terribly detailed, but then it doesn't need to be.
Drawing the hair was a nightmare to work out, but colouring it was quite easy and fun.
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Yup, me likey what you pulled off here, the colouring helps out a great deal in not making it look totally "flat", very nice!
..and me loves this falling-in-spaghetti-string-bundles method of hair stylization a lot!
Quite sexy in real life, too
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See, this is why I needed to practice drawing hair.
I've got a way of doing this stuff, but it really isn't suitable for the more realistic style of art I'm hoping to adopt for my book. From what I gather, hair is as important an attribute to characterisation and storytelling as hands and facial expressions.
So, I realised I needed to work out how to draw specific hair styles. The way these shapes came out wasn't by accident. And I'm VERY proud of that fact!
Working it out really hurt my head, though, I gotta say.
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Learning stuff is awesome, innit?
That's what it's all about. What EVERYTHING should be about
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And the best part is, the more of it you do, the more stuff you retain.
I honestly feel that I'm becoming a better artist for doing all this stuff.
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Absolutely.
As long as you have time at your disposal, and willpower to do something, don't stop!!
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Oh, it's getting to be more than that - I'm definitely trying to make it a regular part of my routine now.
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Heh! And today it is YOU, my friend, who shakes his fist!
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