Personal Project 3

To try different ways of colouring I drew myself a very stylised self-portrait to colour, usually I have black lines around my images to hold them all together.  This time I coloured each of the outlines a slightly darker shade of the colour that was going to fill that immediate area.

I've noticed this technique used in a few animations I'm attached to, one being My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, where the outline of the ponies is darker than the fill colour.

I've kept this technique in mind when I've been creating my image, the difference is that I've tried to blend the line into the actual colouring of the area, so say if an area is slightly lighter, the line will also be lighter.

Animatic

To go along with the Comic Book project at the beginning of this academic year, I had also produced a short animatic from the same script.  I chose to work backwards from the end in case I could do a vast amount, but it would still make sense if I could only do the very end of the script.  I chose to steer away from the very beginning, since I'd already put that in a comic book form so it makes a change from doing the same thing over and over.

Music: Bon Jovi - Dead or Alive

Birthday Project

For a friend's birthday I decided to draw a picture, it's always a wonderful excuse to practice different techniques, or to sharpen skills in a certain area.  This time I've been trying out a new way of lining my images so that there isn't always a hideous (occasionally) black line around the image.

So, recently, I've been starting to draw my initials in my sketchbook and then colour them in photoshop later.  It's a good way to keep up both sets of skills instead of relying on just one.

For the background I used an image of her own (her page is >>Facebook<<  and >>Tumblr<<)