It’s been quite some time, but I finally finished drawing the other character that goes in the WoW-inspired scenario you can see posted below. Now to color them both and insert them in it.
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I’m really caught behind with my work on commissions, but I’ll be trying to get through it all from here until next week. So expect a lot of stuff to get posted here during these next few days.
This image is the uncolored version of one of the two characters that is supposed to be walking through the scenario you saw in an ealier post (two posts down, I believe).
I got a quick commission from some friends that needed a cover image for some book about arthritis. You know, the kind of commission that you’re talking about with the client and he says “the only problem is that we’d need it pretty soon, is that OK?” So you answer “sure, when is it for?” and the go “well… Saturday”.
And it’s Friday evening. Sometimes even Saturday.
Nevertheless, they’re good friends and really good clients, the kind that you know are gonna come back with more business - unless, that is, you mess things up. Then you know they’re just gonna take their stuff elsewhere. So, I looked up some images concerning arthritis and all I get is some really freaky imagery of crooked hands and stuff. But I just can’t do that, I mean, that’d just be gross.
So I took a picture of my own hands in some weird position and drew that… and here it is:
And so the client calls me and says “yeah, really great image - but did you know 90% of people with arthritis are women?” And I really didn’t know that… and anyway, the more I looked at the image the more it looked like it was a photo of a couple of guy’s holding hands in bed, while having sex.
So I redid it:
But now that I the sexual interpretation to it was in my head, I just couldn’t get it out of there. Still, that’s clearly a female hand, and I guess an image of a couple (be it gay or straight) going at it in bed is a lot more heartwarming than some crooked hand on the cover of your book anyday.
And the client liked it, too.
After the coloring (which can sometimes be a real pain in the ass) and the fog effects and all that, here’s the finished version of the scenery I’ve been working on:
So… I’m happy about it. Yeah. But I still have to make the characters which are… like… you know… you main part of the whole commission. So I’m sitting here with a huge grin on my face because I just finished this thing and the client’s probably just looking at it and saying “yeah… but where are the characters?”
Nevertheless, I’m satisfied. Now… back to work!
Yup, like I said before, I love drawing images from World of Warcraft. The commissioned image was originally for a couple of characters with background, so I suppose I’d have to admit that I’ve gone a bit overboard with this piece of scenery - but heck, I just love drawing these things!
After it’s done, I’ll produce both the characters walking down the path and insert them into the image. For now, here’s the finished pencil.
After that, we start coloring, and the first step is to color in with flat colors so we can separate the basic parts of the image, in this case: vegetation, wood, rock, ground and sky.
I’ll show more as more gets done.
I’m working on a commission of some WoW characters, and this is the scenery they’re walking through.
I do so love working on WoW-based images….
There was something in the bard’s position in relation to the chair that just wasn’t convincing me entirely, so I gave it another go.
This is actually the final image, so I just took a picture of the drawing table, cropped it and then editted it a bit in Photoshop so the lines would be a lot more defined. The paper itself looks a lot dirtier than it actually is.
A while back, I had finished this image and thought I had sent it - but it turns out I had totally forgotten to! After the embarassment and all that, I decided to show you all the tweaked version of the image.
The changes are minor, basically I just fixed the cereal boxes and then I changed the window, adding a bit of light to come it through it. Just click the image for a larger version.
This image was incredibly fun to make.
So I’m working on several things at the same time here, and this particular thing is a half-elf psionic bard playing a lute, sitting in a chair. He’s evil, but he also seems to be the kind of evil that’s… well… enchanting. So I tried to make him look as relaxed and cool as was possible - which is also why I decided to have him sit in the chair sideways.
We’ll see what the client has to say.
So, I’ve decided to open a Lulu account, so I can sell comic prints and posters and such - and I thought it’d be really cool to start it all off with a CNZ poster.
I’ve got several ideas running around in my head, so I did some rough sketches to see which one works better. I might still have another couple before I make my mind, but I’m willing to listen to people’s opinions (you’ll be the ones buying them, after all).
So, whaddya think? Which one works better (if they work at all)?