So I've been feeling crummy and wanted to knock out something to get off my rear and play with ideas like;
* Someone else referred to stuff I do as "cartoony," and if I'm going to do cartoony D&D, I should put some thought into it.
* I wanted to work on inks - I always need the practice - and play with markers, a medium I have really mixed feelings about, but which would be the easiest way to work doing convention sketches.
* Enter watching YouTube videos of Humberto Ramos drawing at conventions, which were really inspiring as far as both cartooniness and marker use.
* I've been realizing that - the same way I really like drawing dwarves because the shorter legs (plus typically beard or costume) emphasizes their faces - part of my fondness for D&D as a source of character types is that instantly you have at least some design guidelines.
One useful thing I figured out from doing this; "Prune" copic markers are awesome for shading, giving a touch of violet tint while desaturating color, a lot better than just the neutral gray markers (have not tried cool grays).
* Someone else referred to stuff I do as "cartoony," and if I'm going to do cartoony D&D, I should put some thought into it.
* I wanted to work on inks - I always need the practice - and play with markers, a medium I have really mixed feelings about, but which would be the easiest way to work doing convention sketches.
* Enter watching YouTube videos of Humberto Ramos drawing at conventions, which were really inspiring as far as both cartooniness and marker use.
* I've been realizing that - the same way I really like drawing dwarves because the shorter legs (plus typically beard or costume) emphasizes their faces - part of my fondness for D&D as a source of character types is that instantly you have at least some design guidelines.
One useful thing I figured out from doing this; "Prune" copic markers are awesome for shading, giving a touch of violet tint while desaturating color, a lot better than just the neutral gray markers (have not tried cool grays).
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I don't, but I think I've spent too much time indecisive. I love cartoons, but I also love illustrative stuff, and all too often I don't really choose consciously to push one or the other. So I wanted to actually commit, you know? I figure there's more I could do to shake things up in terms of really really going for cartoon, or really really going for illustrative. The bard & barbarian characters at the far end, are I think about the extremes of where I could go from this style before getting into really cartoony or really illustrative, if that makes sense.
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