Girls docking inked
Enough said, I love Sai! ^O^ okie think gotta head out soonish, will catch up with comments later :) (thanks guys, I read em ^^/)
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Alice in wonderland progress
Tried some other tools in Sai, very quick fills done, haven’t really figured out the program fully just yet, so background was quickly done in photoshop, may redo it later in Sai of course.
There are different ways and methods I use when I colour my artwork.
Usually the line art — either scanned image, or inked in the computer — is in a separate layer, and similar or same colours or items (example, hair, clothing, skintone etc) in different layers. I noticed that in photoshop the file will become huge as more layers, shading and effects are added.
In Sai, the image refreshes and saves quickly, something I really like since it definitely saves some time. Also multi control-Z is definitely a plus ^^. In this current work in progress, I fill some base colours (in separate layers) first, this method allows me a quick over view of the overall colour schemes and when I finalise colours I will do shading later. This method is neater in a way that we can re-select the filled in parts, keeping most shading within the base colours.
In the previous “That cat girl” I used a slightly more time consuming and messier method, where I shade roughly around and then erase the strokes which bleeded outside of the line art.
That Cat girl
Okie quick colouring of cat girl completed ^^/ Was gonna give her a more fantasy colour hair style but end up using brown ^^; This piece of work is mostly coloured in Sai, quick background and text done in photoshop ^^ As usual, clicking on image below brings you to full view, or you can find it in Gallery page.
okay back to Work work ^^;;;;
Nya?
Sai program getto p(^O^)q
I was pleasantly surprised that they had an english version of a page which I previously only saw a Japanese version of, and realised omg I could get the license to use it since I like it a lot :P The line and brush strokes feels more natural on this little programe than photoshop ^^; I’m not used to the wand tool in Sai just yet so am using a different method to colour, the colours leaking out will be erased near the end — which is why the colours are bleeding on the edge. I’m not done colouring this image yet of course :P
Lady Centaur
Worked on Lady Centaur from the previous post a bit ^^
having a headache so probably will stop here for now ^^; The weather these days has been so weird, I probably got the headache from getting too much wind on my head =_=;
Hot summer day results completed ^^/
Happy Canada Day!
Actually had work most of today, but took a little time off to colour my hot summer day ;P
Currently the creation has been saved into Gallery page, but for now you can click on the image below to access the full image ^^/
And of course not to forget the full sized version of Gordonator‘s mascot, also saved onto the Fan art section of the Gallery page, but accessible via here for now ^^/
Hot summer day results in…
…drawing of some scantily dressed girl eating ice cream during lunch time :P
This weekend it got rather hot, been feeling kinda dehydrated and hot while working from home =_=;;; Drank a lot of water, ate fruits and had ice cream ^^
Thankfully this evening is not too hot, last evening was just cookin!
I had to tweak her right eye a bit when I “inked” this out in Sai ^^ so in the end she doesn’t look exactly like the sketch I drew ^^; And now that I look at it again I think I gotta fix the stick looks a tad long ^^; But hope ya all like her ^^/
Commission work – Mascot of Gordonator
Made a deal with the gordonator to draw his blog’s mascot for one million dollars… (LOL)
Once in a while when I feel inspired (or need some extra cash on the side), I do take commissions for illustration work. Pricing varies with the amount of details, whether or not there’s colouring, background involved, how soon it is needed — meaning the the more work/less time given for me to finish = I charge more etc etc. I do commission work a lot less these days as I am quite busy with my work with cartoondollemporium.
I know some of my artist friends open”slots” every other month open to have people commission them to draw some artwork, but I have not really done anything like that just yet. Other than work based illustrations I would like to have time to draw my own drawings ^^; This is when I wish I have 3 more drawing arms to help me out :P
Okie I won’t babble on ^^; Thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend :)