…the first page is up?
THE FIRST PAGE IS UP!
Special thanks to Doc for being a coding superhero. All my gratitude to everyone who has been so supportive through the set-up and planning stages. I hope you will read and enjoy! c:
Exciting! :> Good luck, Amy! Your work is gorgeous as ever.
casperkiddo: How do you draw the pictures like the one you made recent of Korra?
Man, that’s a big question. But I’ll give it a shot! This is probably just going to be confusing and rambling, though.
I did the lineart in Manga Studio, and you can see that in an earlier post I made. I then took it into Photoshop, and did all the greyscale shading and painted in the background. Then I used a bunch of gradient maps to get a colour scheme going that I liked, and also did the flats on Korra set to 50% opacity and multiply, just to give a hint of basic colour (her top is blue, her hair is brown…) without overpowering the gradient maps or the shading I’ve already done. Then I painted in the fire and water bending effects and added some glow to them, did some colour balancing, added a texture, and done! I could do a proper tutorial if anyone’s interested, I suspect this wasn’t very helpful, haha.
Drew a Korra! This was a blast, it’s cool to work on things that aren’t comic pages for once.
Drawing Korra, gonna colour this soon! I’m enjoying the hell out of this show.
Can I just turn your attention to this awesome, wonderful, beautiful FREE comic?
From the site: Red Moon Rising is a full-colour steampunk fantasy webcomic set in the midst of a magic-fuelled industrial society, following one person’s small mistake and the knock-on effect it has on the people and the world around them.
I would honestly barely even classify it as steampunk, because it isn’t so in your face like most of the genre. But seriously, check it out, even if only for the art, which is GORGEOUS and just keeps getting better somehow.
More people should read RMR. I don’t do a whole lot of plugging, but trust me, this is one that REALLY deserves it! Rose does great work.
Aw man, thanks you guys! This is so nice. If I were less terrible at tumblr I could probably figure out how to respond to this without reblogging it, but I’m not, so here we are! \o/
Started on this without any good idea of what I was doing, except that I wanted to do one of them dramatic poses with big hands coming out of the page all perspective-y like. Like in real comics! Not sure if I’ll finish it since the pose is kind of boring, but I have all these half-finished things that I never do anything with, so… bam! Danil!
I think I completely mis-answered that question. don’t know what I’m doing, back to work
afterthenonsequitur: What genres do you enjoy, as far as movies and TV shows go?
I didn’t know tumblr did questions, cool.
I enjoy a lot of genre stuff. Game of Thrones aside, I really enjoyed Farscape, Firefly, Dead Like Me, and Stargate SG-1. Atlantis less so, and Universe not at all really. I liked Star Trek DS9 a lot growing up, though I think maybe in retrospect I wouldn’t like it as much now apart from the last couple of seasons. Avatar: the Last Airbender was pretty amazing, as was Seirei no Moribito.
I watched a lot of Legend of the Seeker despite it clearly being terrible, so I guess my tolerance for rubbishness is high as long as swords are involved. I also watched way too much Relic Hunter, but only because I have a shameless lady-crush on Tia Carrere. Otherwise, what a terrible series. I have no taste when you get right down to it. :(
I tend to watch fewer movies these days because I feel like I should pay attention to them more, whereas with TV shows I feel like I can watch them as I work. Recently I enjoyed The Brothers Bloom, Night Watch, and District 9, though.
Er, and the Lion King. But doesn’t everyone like the Lion King?
This question has made me very self-conscious about my viewing habits all of a sudden. Like everyone will stop reading my comic if I disclose just how many Pokémon movies I’ve seen in the last year. *holds head* more than one I’m afraid
My wacom tablet preferences erased themselves this morning, so I spent about half an hour sketching this after carefully redoing them to make sure all was well. Does this happen to anyone else? It’s super annoying. :|
Having started this warmup sketch shenanigans, I came to the sad realisation that there’s not really anything I’m into enough right now that I want to make fanart for it. I feel like on Tumblr I’m in a minority here (a minority that may consist solely of myself) but I have no crazy fandoms. I think the last thing I really enjoyed was Game of Thrones, but that was like six months ago. Though that hasn’t stopped people from frantically posting screenshots non-stop since, so maybe I’m missing something here.
I’m pretty good at talking myself out of watching TV shows and films because they seem to be terribly time consuming, but I also get the sense that I’m majorly missing out here. Does anyone have any good suggestions?
Also, the part of my brain the played the shit out of Morrowind and Oblivion (the pre-webcomic part of my brain, that is) really, really, badly wants Skyrim. But I can’t afford it, don’t have the time to play it, and would probably need a new graphics card to even consider it. #firstworldproblems Hopefully I’ll remember about it sometime in the next couple of years when I have more money and a buffer of comic pages. one can dream~
Balsa from Seirei no Moribito, which is a cracking wee anime that I thoroughly recommend. I’m not much of an anime person (perhaps evidenced by the phrase “cracking wee anime”), but I think that might be why it appealed to me so much - it seems to have more of a novel’s storytelling aesthetic, which makes sense since the series was based on a book. Plus the animation and art design are superb.
I’m hoping to get into the habit of doing warm-up sketches because I feel like I don’t really draw enough outside of comic pages. Plus it’s been years since I did any proper fanart. And I really like Seirei no Moribito.
Also, apparently I should be putting my URL on anything I release into the tumblr-verse? I guess we’ll see if I remember. D:
That is what I draw. And occasional cityscapes.