edit - if you're unfamiliar with the characters - These are characters from SNK's Fatal Fury(they're also in King of Fighters and some other titles) - they're Mai Shiranui, Terry Bogard and Andy Bogard. I was a big fan of all these characters having grown up playing the games as well as the Fatal Fury anime's being some of my first introductions to anime itself.
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Here's a breakdown of my color pencil approach in Photoshop, the first chunk of the video is the basic approach followed by some of the Chun-Li process.
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Here's the next in the, uh, Street Figher series? I don't know, I just started drawing Street Fighter characters and now I'm here, there's way too many characters for me to do them all, but I might do some more - or I might hop around to SNK characters - not sure! But anyway, there will be a video up where I explain a bit about how I'm achieving the color pencil/pastel rendering look - I recorded about an hour of this process, hopefully it's helpful!
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2020-11-08 00:42:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's the latest piece I worked up using that sketchbook style. In this approach I began by using the Kyle T Webster "perfect pencil" brush in Photoshop for the initial sketch & refinement sketch - after this I did the inks in Clip Studio using the attached inking brush - once I had that done I just dropped in some colors in Clip Studio, did a pass with s...
2020-11-06 04:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, today I wanted to touch on how I'm doing those concept sheets for the manga. This style is mostly a sketch in photoshop with slight refinement followed by some colors done in clip studio with final adjustments completed in photoshop. I like this style and approach because of the speed and the final look of it all - it feels...
2020-11-05 01:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I was pretty happy with the concepts so far but I hadn't really hit on exactly how the comic would look in print with the inking style. What I had previously was more of a loose pencil/color pencil/marker style - but here I've been doing my best to channel a classic manga style akin to Inoue Takehiko. I'm going for this approach because I want this to feel very authentic but throw a curve ball with all the subject matter of the comic and how over the top it is, I think the semi-rea...
2020-11-04 21:53:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, here's the next round of concept for Fuck You - I needed to add more players to the team to get a handle on how to write them - it's very hard to write a character you can't see, so I tried to get some down to have a jumping off point for dialogue and character interaction.
So far I'm feeling really good about these - been tossing around a bunch of ideas between me and Dan(we write Steve Lichman together) - and I'm happy with the direction.
Looking forward to sharin...
2020-11-03 00:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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We're finally here, we're back to comics and I couldn't be more excited - I'm working on the script for this one, got a ton down already and am just starting to concept out everyone in the series so I know the style/vibe for the whole thing. It's really important to nail down how this manga will look before I start, I don't want to be deep into this with the style suddenly shifting into something totally different.
So, these are some loose ideas I've come up with so far...
2020-11-02 00:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're all well! Thanks for all the great questions this time around, I appreciate the asides that lead me back to the woods and toward dumb stuff like the exorcism.
If I did not address your question fully please leave a comment below so I can follow up with you!
Thanks as always for your support!
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2020-10-29 16:40:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's done! Took me a bit longer than I thought but I'm happy with how he turned out. I really wanted to try and push myself with the smaller inking detail on this one. I've always enjoyed drawing all the little tiny coins, pages and ornate stuff in scenes like this - so I indulged a little and tried to see where I could take it with this style.
I hope that you like this one, feel free to download and print the attached high res file for yourself! This one just needs con...
2020-10-27 22:53:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, I wanted to touch on something slightly more complex in this video - building forms on top of forms when inking. I usually see comments when I ink something mor...
2020-10-25 03:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Man, this Ganon is taking too long, not sure what I was thinking doing this big of a pen & ink style piece hahah. I thought to myself it'd be relatively easy, the Link piece didn't take me too long. But I got it in my mind that I'd try and push and learn a bit more about how I can render forms using the lines alone, hence all the veins and muscle definition. When this is done I'm hoping it looks cool, I gotta make all this effort worth it!
I'm going to be releasing anothe...
2020-10-25 00:52:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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This was just a test stream btw, I'll do my best to schedule these in the future!
2020-10-21 04:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're doing good! Here's the next in the Zelda pen & ink series, this is the thumb-nailing and sketching portion of the Ganon piece I'm working up. Mo...
2020-10-19 06:01:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Finally! I've finally finished the Evangelion series! I knew it would take me a bit to get it all wrapped up, but it's done and here are the final Asuka files :). I hope that you like how it all came out, I'll link to the previous Shinji & Rei final high res posts here as well so you can grab them all if you're considering printing them as a trio.
Shinji high res files 2020-10-16 19:53:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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I hope you're well and hello to all the new patrons! Here is the first video covering a bit of my process for my Link piece that I posted last night. In this vid...
2020-10-15 16:17:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you've all been well! Here's the latest piece I did for a video on inking for you all. I've attached the high res so that you can download and look through the details or if you'd like to print this for personal use(please make sure to change file to CMYK before printing).
The video will cover the entire process from some initial concepts up to the final piece. I'll be posting that up soon, hopefully tonight or tomorrow morning!
Thanks as always for your supp...
2020-10-14 23:24:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! I wanted to do a follow up to the previous Basics video on composition because I felt that I didn't really cover enough ground on d...
2020-10-10 23:31:56 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
Firstly, hello to all of the new patrons on here, I really appreciate you joining and supporting everything I'm trying to do on this patreon! I just wanted to leave this post up to gather your questions for the Q&A I'll be doing toward the end of this month. Feel free to ask whatever you like - art questions, personal questions, career questions, really anything and everything including asking about my exorcism when I was a child or the number of times I've been knocked unconsc...
2020-10-10 19:05:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Here is the next installment in The Basics series - in this video I cover three different approaches to tackling a Spawn comic cover composition. ...
2020-10-09 16:49:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're doing well and hello to all of the new patrons that just recently subscribed on here, I'm waving to you in real time. I'll be putting up another basics video tomorrow morning - but in the meantime, I wanted to share the current progress of the Asuka Langley piece I've been working on. Asuka is mostly complete, I still have some work to do on little details and softening some areas, but in general this will be the look unless something stands out to me when I revisit it ...
2020-10-08 23:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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Update - Almost forgot! Here are the brushes I'm using(clip brushes are attached to this post)
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Well, we're almost there with this one, it's ready to paint finally! I did a pretty thorough underpainting on this piece, I wanted to see if establishing so much of what was there in the original sketch(color wise) would help in the final painting - or just how much that may speed up my general process.
When I approached the Rei piece I went right into the colors without doing a very intensive sketch or even an underpainting like this. Most of what I did on that one was...
2020-10-05 21:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the YouTube link to the Q&A - YouTube - the MP3 is attached to this post!
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I hope you had a good weekend, here's the latest Q&A(the Evangelion video plays throughout the questions) - I got a new camera so that there's a bit more going on in these videos going forward. I'll be sharing books I really enjoy as well as my workspace and other things...
2020-10-05 16:50:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I wanted to share with you the current progress on the Asuka Langley - Evangelion piece I've been working up. For this one I really tried to get across the true look of the final piece in the lines rather than doing a lot of that work in the final painting(discovering the face style for instance - like I did in the Rei & Shinji pieces). So far I'm feeling pretty confident that this will have a pretty clear and strong execution when I move into the painting phase. I'm not entire...
2020-09-30 05:21:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's the latest in the Drawing series, this one is of the Wolverine bust I posted up yesterday. In this video we touch on a similar approach to the Drawing Beast video but with an emphasis on renderin...
2020-09-29 05:41:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've got a lot coming up in the next few days for the patreon, I just finished recording this process for Wolverine, full commentary walkthrough should be up tomorrow as well as more PSD's and hopefully the Asuka lines the day after. In the meantime, you can download the PSD to check out and then follow along with the video if you like!
Looking forward to sharing everything I've been working on, hope you've been well!
Thanks as always for your support!
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Well, here's the final Mega Man Legends piece! I'm happy with it, learned a lot working through it all. This one was purely to fulfill my childhood dream of just putting together a big Mega Man piece, I was always big into the style and grew up loving all the games. Mega Man Legends in specific always stood out to me as such a solid universe and the designs throughout the series are so consistent.
Please feel free to print these for personal use only, I...
2020-09-24 20:46:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Here's the latest part of the video series walking you through the final steps of the painting process - there will be one more part that will contain ...
2020-09-23 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post