The Journey Begins Challenge (2D) Entry: Andrew Doris

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Well, I'm entering another contest. Hopefully I'll be able to carry this one through to completion, I'm not quite as busy as last time round.

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Here's the line art. It'll get tightened up some more, so probably another line post before going into the computer for painting.

[warpy]

line art is cool, but what is the quest behind all of this. i cant realy get it :) so i guess something should be done about it :)

cheers.

[ramy badie]

In the sketch, I liked how you had started the character. I thought it was going to be a nude or almost nude figure, but now I feel like the soldier looks out of place. Everything else looks very natural (as in, part of nature), and I feel like the soldier throws this off. I think this one has potential but I feel like a more natural approach to the character would make more sense to me. I hope that helps in some way, otherwise you might have a story in mind that will make sense with some description or tweaking of the background.

[ralphmanning]

The line art is looking promising, nice fluid marks. I'm looking forward to some colour though. Do you plan on doing a colour concept before working on this line? :curious:

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Another stage of line art, this time in cleaned vector lines. Its not done yet, I've still got to draw the remaining 7 or so dragonfly riders, plus continue modifying the line weighting so its a little more pleasing.

Warpy, the quest is a little undefined in terms of objective, I did that to hopefully have the viewer supply one.

Ramy badie, after I started to tighten my drawing, I also tightened up the composition so the primary rider is more in a visual center now.

Xeophex, I probably won't be doing a preliminary colour sketch, but I will be colouring it all flat to start, so I'll be able to change the base colours pretty easily at that stage. Currently I'm thinking of a lot of greens and blues, reds for accents.

Thanks to all three of you for taking the time to check out my work so far and to post your advice.

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Here's the final line art. As you can see, I'm making a more animation/comic style illustration with this one.

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I've applied flat colours to the picture, from here I'm still playing with different base colours before moving on to applying gradients, shading, highlights and the rest.

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