Severus the artificer... and Rhys, the artificed. In a picture that,
er, makes very little sense out of context. And I'm the only person in
the world who knows what that context is!... what?
Anyway.
I actually drew and inked this close to eight months ago, and it's been
sitting on my hard drive ever since waiting to be colored.
And I finally got around to it in an attempt to shake myself out of
my production slump; I don't know if it worked, but at least
I can move the damn thing out of my temp folder, finally.
The sketch is okay... the facial expressions came across pretty well,
I like the way Rhys' hair came out (why did I give him
wavy hair? It's hard to draw!... oh, right, because it looks so damn
cool), and the hands are pretty good, although I spot a couple of definite
mistakes. Of course, Rhys doesn't have much of a brainpan under all
that hair... woops. Probably should have rounded his head a bit more.
I fucked up pretty bad on the inking. This surprises no one. I fixed it in Photoshop. This also surprises no one. Moving on.
... well! Excuse me whilst I whimper at the paint job. In some things
I succeeded really well (dramatic lighting, skin tone) and in
some things I did not. Their hair, for example. I have the damndest
time trying to paint decent hair, and I really did not do a good job
of it here. The heart (yes, it's a heart, made of stone, shut up) looks
kind of neat, but it really doesn't give that much of a sense of
giving off light. Oh well.
You know, up until this evening I always used to bitch about how I
couldn't paint dark skin to save my ass.
I'll never say it again.
But seriously, dark skin is an entirely different challenge from pale
skin. Yeesh. Hilighting dark skin is a pain in the ass. Kind of
like shading pale skin is a pain in the ass, but at least I have more
practice with that.
What pisses me off about the paint job is how uneven it is. Some of
it is really good, some of it is painfully mediocre, and
it really needs a background, or at least more shadows. But phucket.