My Road To Mastery

#401

Your pen sketches always amaze me.
And to think they are drawn from life… respect!

Hope you’ll be better soon!

#402

wow thats a really good sketch book (it took me some time to read mose of it @@) i really like yout stuff and you really made a progress since you started which really shows that with commitment and dedication comes the reward ,keep it coming and gj ^^

#403

yo! static! it’s been so long you may not remember me but i remember you :slight_smile: i come back now and then to check up on you. you’ve really been making some good progress since i left. you’re still as much of an inspiration as ever. keep up the good work!

( i so envy your life drawing skills)

#404

Johan - Thanks man! I do feel better now…

acb12 - Thanks very much! :slight_smile:

lestikitty - Long time no see! Thanks for stopping by again. :smiley:

Sorry I’ve been away for so long! Moving, job searching, catching up, buying and cooking your own food all the time, going camping, and other things of that nature really do take up a lot of time. But I’m in a bit of a routine now, and I haven’t been completely lazy since I’ve been gone. A friend and I recently started a portfolio project. One, to get them up, and two, to create new images to put into it.
I’ve created my portfolio at http://jasonslavin.daportfolio.com
I’ve also been in contact with Rio Grande Games, and we’re talking about me painting some of their playing cards. I didn’t have any recent medieval work to show them, so I painted these over the last couple days to show them.

I had this a little different in my head, but I was once again a victim of my own tendency to overwork an image. It’s a lot cleaner and flatter than I’d like. Getting depth was a real problem for me, and the colors make it look a bit too Western Cartoon for my taste. But oh well, right? If Rio Grande Games likes it, I like it.

This one I’m a lot happier with, which is funny, because I’m much more familiar with figures than landscapes, and more familiar with lineart than straight painting… and yet the latter is the much stronger image, haha. :d

Again, sorry I’ve been away for so long!

#405

Awesome! Hope you’ll get an agreement with that game company soon!

Can’t check your DA portfolio here at the office but will do so tonight :slight_smile:
(I’m on IE6 here on an old P4 and it doesn’t like DA. Other sites like c.onceptar.t are even blocked)
Seems like some parts of that castle is out of perspective in the 2nd one, no?

#406

alot of wow in this thread…cant stop flipping back thru the pages. It inspires me

#407

I really envy your figure drawing skills :wink:
As for those enviros. Pay more attention to perspective, especially at the beggining of painting. That snowy environment looks like sit in several perspectives. Look at the trees in the foreground, they strictly suggest where horizont should be. So that the castle can’t be seen from above. Here are few perspective landmarks placed on your original image(I am sorry if that’s not appropriate) :
http://www.microcomp.sk/~zelenak/hints.jpg

I suggest you try Mathias Verhasselt’s grid brushes, so that you could establish your perspective guides really without pain. In evniros, perspective is very important thing, so that someone could have vertigo if the sight from high high above is done correctly.
Keep up, I am looking forward to more :slight_smile:

#408

Johan & siiilon - Hey! You guys are right about the perspective. It got a little wonky in there. I never remember to make perspective lines because making diagonal lines in PS CS is such a chore. So HUGE thanks to siiilon for pointing me toward those grid brushes! Those are going to be a big help.

Nazirull - Thanks so much!

I got some advice on how to present myself as eligible for sequential art, such as storyboards, so I went with it. I’m going to be expanding a couple older ideas with more images of the same scene. I’m also planning on making some color storyboards of a short story sometime soon. On top of those, I’m working on a 2-page comic book spread with a friend. It’s not a full book yet. We’re starting small, to see how the workflow goes. Right now we’re discussing aesthetics and character design. We’re trying to do this right, so hopefully I’ll have some character sheets to put into the portfolio soon as well.

Here’s the wide shot for Daydreamer, a scene I drew up a long time ago:

#409

You can make straight lines in PS CS by clicking(mouse)/tapping(stylus) the starting point of your line, then shift+clicking/tapping at the destination point.
The angle you choose is not limited like in Painter.
Works very well actually.

#410

Thanks for responding, Johan. Yeah, I know about that method. I don’t care for it too much, though, cause most of my brushes are on pressure sensitivity. When you do that with PS on your line fades out. So I have to adjust brush settings every time I want to make a line. If you’ve ever used an oekaki applet, that’s my favorite line tool. You click and hold, drag your line out to any length and direction, then let go of the click. Aaaah… :’)

#411

Great work, Static :thumbsup:

Concerning the use of a solid brush to create straight lines, consider placing your fav brushes on a “Tool Preset” palette (if you haven’t already). I’ve been working that way for awhile and it speeds up the workflow quite a bit. I have a set of special configured brushes that’s just a click away, including a solid non-sensitive brush to make straight lines and solid shapes. You can configure the settings, opacity, flow, layer mode, etc any way you like, save it as a tool preset and the brush info is locked and ready for use anytime. It’s so much more efficient than sifting through the typical pull-down brush menu and typing in settings each time.

#412

Daniel - Yeah, I’ve made some presets. I always think of tools when it comes to creating those straight lines, not brushes, so saving brushes specifically for making lines never crossed my mind. :stuck_out_tongue: Thanks dude.

Been working on the characters sketches for the comic. I ended up trying another way of coloring and working with lines/selections as well. Always trying new things…

This is not a character for the comic. It’s just improvised to try out a few things.

#413

Wow dude!
This is really really nice!
Other than that the area of her right breast reads a bit weird, probably due to the fold in the dress, I really have nothing to crit. Maybe it would read better if the form of the breast was more defined.

I’m really looking forward to see more of your comic now!

#414

Lovely piece, great rythm it has. But unless she’s leaning against something to her south/west, she would probably been loosing her balance I think. But that easily correctable emphasizing ground (which wouldn’t be horizontal line I think).
But I love the rythm and shading, it’s so natural. Keep up buddy

#415

man Static, whats going on? No updates lately!? Well I’m sure your busy doing something completly amazing. Or your just relaxing… anyway both would be ok with me. Looking forward to your comeback.

#416

dude, those linearts on the previous page are fantastic! i really love the second of post #391, that edginess kicks ass! :stuck_out_tongue:
seriously, great stuff.
i also like the little daydreamer from post #408. very nice style on that one!
looking forward for more! :>

#417

Hey You!
Where are ya? :smiley:
You not posting can only mean a lot is going on in your life right now I guess.
Would love to hear/see what you’ve been up to lately!

#418

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