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Manga Art Gallery / Re: Hati's Inventory

« Last post by Hati on Today at 12:46:12 AM »

There are 26 gangsters in the "Fire Gang" including Toothless.
Here is the 2nd one:

This is Force, Toothless's oldest friend and another founder of the gang. He is 47, Toothless is 45. His hair is all white because he didn't age well (and neither did Toothless). Force used to be normal but now he has Kanye West syndrome. Force got very wounded one day, and got all his blood replaced with artificial liquid, a liquid which he can control with his mind, shape it, and use it as a weapon (which is what the right panel is). Force is not very tall (only 4 feet) with purple eyes. The downside of having this artificial liquid (known as Ichor) is that he will live forever. So, when he gets an injury that he's supposed to die from, his body will heal immediately, but very slowly. So, he will suffer from the pain for about 24-48 hours before his wound is fixed. The Ichor coursing through his veins keeps him awake, he cannot sleep. Because of that, Force has a very unstable personality and hallucinates often. He cusses too much, and is very rude to others. This starts to break the relationship between himself and Toothless.

Why is he Toothless's friend? Because he was the only person Toothless could relate to. Force wasn't always this way. Like Toothless, he has a hunger for power. His desire is to help Toothless rise to power, but with his mental illness, he can't really relate to his friend.

Manga Art Gallery / Re: Suuper's manga (+digital and 3D)

« Last post by Lord Kesashi on September 20, 2019, 11:25:29 PM »

Your workflow is very efficient. That's great for tutorials because that's usually what people want to see. This is the level of efficiency I'm striving to get to so I can produce more work more often too.

Collaboration (Art Exchange) / Re: Lego draws your requests

« Last post by Coryn on September 20, 2019, 11:12:39 PM »

PLANT WARRIOR!!!! *ELECTRIC GUITAR RIFFS*

Loving the cowboy Kamen rider aesthetic he's going to going on. Good job!

Develop Your Story / Re: A group project

« Last post by Coryn on September 20, 2019, 11:09:58 PM »

Hmm... I definitely like the idea of someone being required to help maintain a sort of cosmic balance. Having an afterlife "job" or purpose is pretty solid as premises go. You see it here and there, but never often enough that it becomes cliche. Plus it allows you to explore themes about our nature. That thing that drives us to have purpose. It doesn't necessarily sound like you're taking that path, so I'll digress.

The coma/all a dream thing I definitely a cop out, but I won't say not to use it for that reason. Cliches are cliches because they contain merit to begin with. However if you're taking the approach that the whole thing is still influenced by higher beings, it seems more interesting if the coma is replaced with something more in line with that. Maybe he has to find a way to escape his new lot in life, and that involves bending his new powers in such a way that he can resurrect himself.

Just some thoughts. Good luck!

Manga Art Gallery / Re: BobbyJoex's Gallery(unorginized)

« Last post by Coryn on September 20, 2019, 11:00:49 PM »

Great facial work! You really get a visceral sense for the emotions he's going through! Might have to do with a certain cartooniness your style has (in no way an insult), but the eyes capture a lot here!

Manga Art Gallery / Re: Suuper's manga (+digital and 3D)

« Last post by suuper-san on September 20, 2019, 01:06:26 PM »

Glad it helped :)
Well, this way is a very quick and dirty method and to be honest, if I was being more serious I would more likely separate objects into different layers, especially skin as it shades a lot differently to other colours for some reason.
The single shade/highlight layer is great for quickly laying down shade when borders of objects aren't so important, and yes having less layers to work with is a bonus as well.
With the overlay highlight layer, you can paint different colours for different colour light sources, not just white, which can look nice.
With the shade and highlights on single layers, you can also quickly change the hue to give different lighting effects/tones

Manga Art Gallery / Re: Suuper's manga (+digital and 3D)

« Last post by KeanFox on September 20, 2019, 11:58:56 AM »

The tutorial gave me an aha moment. So multiply is for shadow and overlay for highlight...I see.
I color everything separately on its own layer, this method tends to pile up layers fast and takes time. But you used multiply to shade over everything...hmm

Manga Art Gallery / Re: Suuper's manga (+digital and 3D)

« Last post by suuper-san on September 20, 2019, 04:22:04 AM »

Glad you liked it!
I really want to do more timelapse art and tutorials but half the problem is I just don't have the time, and the other half is I don't know what I'm doing :P

I think the logic behind my eye rendering is that I want to get the entire eye shape down first, then I lock the pixels so I don't accidentally paint outside the eye. So I might as well start with the colour that's nearest the edge, which is the darkest. Funny though I've never really thought of the dark colours in the eye as shade, I've just thought of them as different colours, which also probably affects the order I draw them. Traditionally, obviously I start with the lighter colours and get darker, since I can't draw white with a normal ballpoint XD

Smudging is absolutely fantastic, and it's so much faster than trying to paint a gradient by picking colours and overpainting with a transparent brush.

It's funny about backgrounds, they probably take the longest to draw compared to the actual character in the ilustration. but they probably get the least amount of attention when they are looked at by others I think haha

Well I went to another funeral yesterday, and I have another one in 2 weeks to go to. Friends of the family. Funny how that happens sometimes. So I'm still in a bit of a funny mood.