The Rules of Good Men

"Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many."

When I came up with the idea for this, I had a tangential idea for Whovian Chess. Any piece can be removed from the board and placed in the TARDIS, and game carries on. At a chosen turn the TARDIS piece can re-materialise on the same spot and carry on. Can only be used one at a time, but could be a life saver if used well :D 

Anyways, Game of Thrones and Doctor Who, celebrating clever folk being clever. AND THEY'RE BOTH COMING BACK.

Painting in progress

I'm in the middle of another painting, but don't have the usual amount of time to try and get all done in one sitting, so I'm sticking it up here as it ticks along, a sort of WIP/Tutorial type thing. Just to go through, I start of with an incredibly rough sketch (not seen, but the linework tends to have SO MUCH MORE LIFE than the clean line it's not even funny) always drawn on a midgray background, at about 30% opacity, 60& flow hard round brush in photoshop.

I then do the clean(ish) lines you see above. WHY OH WHY? Because then I can a) lock in the design of things and forces me to think things through a lot more but B) because I can flat em in super fast. Much like in comics stuff, when I got through the flatting process it gives me a time to exclusively think about the tone and colours I want. For this I want it to have the overall air in the place of what-wet-fur-smells-like, with the dragons dropped in over it like a breath of fresh air...or an unwelcome draft, depending on your perspective :D

I then press Ctrl Alt Shift E and that makes a flattened clone of the lot, and then Ctrl Alt Shift B (I THINK) to greyscale it. I then paint up a quick value study, so I'm not getting ahead of myself with colour alone.


NOW is the point where those two techniques clash horribly, but I'm in the porvess of figuring out how to marry the two. Either way, from here on I combine the two and make with the pretty. I have 90 mins painting time left, so FINGERS CROSSED I should have something for ye later on.

Wish me luck.

Normal Service will resume shortly.


EDIT:

OK, my eyes have pretty much called it quits for the day. Here's where I'm at so far :D

The only thing that is required for Medieval to succeed is for Sci Fi people to do Nothing

Still trying to get the hang of some of those techniques in the Gnomon vids, as well as thinking more about lenses, focus and exposure in my paintings. I've only noticed this evening my compositions are getting a little stale- will need to work on that a little too.

But yeah, this was interesting to do.

So today I've been experimenting with my inkling. It's had mixed results so far, but rule of thumb being don't move the sensor. If you do, start a new layer. The lines of these were done with the inkling's pen, but scanned using a scanner (the inkling scan didn't turn out great on any of them.)

But yeah, I'll be at the MCM expo in London this weekend, where each of these (among others) will be up for grabs. Come along and say hi :D

Might as well upload the comparison for the Imp-

I'll get the hang of it. Early days yet.