Some quick Wick

Drawn by hand with Pencil, and coloured in Photoshop.
I tried giving it a water colour look behind him using the filters, and I'd say it worked quite well. It's the first time I've drawn him with the harsh shading I so enjoy, and I think the final product came out pretty well.
Originally, I drew him without flesh and exposed muscles. I then erased some of the detail- although some of it was so dark I could barely do that. I would've rather have gone easy on the vertical lines above his furrowed brow.

I just enjoy lining up the colouring process like that. Clicking on them and scrolling back and forth you can watch it fill in bit by bit.

Stop Motion Animaton

I'm aware it's hard to see exactly what's going on due to the white on white. But here's what you're looking at:

I found out the hard way that if I wanted anything I drew to be seen, I had to make it really dark. The character is just as shaded in the video as the picture, but it's just not enough. In the future, I'll definitely be using more contrasts.

This first video is around 18 seconds long, though the original cut was 26. Lost 8 seconds after speeding it up in parts, and cutting out a couple frames.  for just those 28 seconds, I was taking pictures for about 4-5 hours. part of what made it take so long, was having a character made of separate moving parts, none of which are secure. When I tried to move one piece, they would all want to shift dramatically, leading to plenty of hair pulling. I tried gluing things down, but the glue dried up and became useless pretty fast.
And then of course, there's the construction of the character himself.

Those are just the pieces I found left in my drawer. There's another head, some thighs, more feet, more hands, etc. I drew, cut out, and shaded each one, and that took a couple days, just doing it while on break from other things.
The amount of time it took to make the 20 second piece is stupid.

More Wick

More recent drawing of Wick.  I gave him a baggy coat cause I thought it was a nice contrast to his tall lean figure. Gives him a sort've candy apple look.

I was going to shade him in, but I really like the clean look he has, especially on his sleeves.
Coloured him in on Photoshop.

And with some shading and highlights. . .

And here's one more. This ones a bit older. I tried colouring and shading using pencil crayons- it came out a bit rough looking. Still trying to get the hang of Pencil Crayons, but I'm not really loving it.

Amphibious Colour

I've been working on a comic book in the style of old early 90's cartoons. Green skinned heroes fighting mutants and anthropomorphic animals while surrounded by lasers, robots and radio activity. Also everything is messy and brightly coloured. You know; Ninja Turtles, Toxic Crusaders, Swamp Thing, Bucky O'Hare, and all that jazz.
So Here's amphibious Wick.

Old picture, But I just finished colouring it in photoshop, so that's new.

It's the first time I've coloured with photoshop in about 8 years give or take. Good news is I'm finding it way more enjoyable than Pencil crayons, or paint. Both will continue to be the bane of my existence. Also, swapping colours is awesome.
Here's a palette swap as suggested by Tara Epp

FIRST!

Sweet sexy new blog. I'll be hosting a lot of old stuff with some new stuff to fill it out a bit- give it some heft. Otherwise, I don't know if I pump out enough to justify this to myself.
This will be a way to keep a record of my films, props/costumes, music and art.
To start off, I'll post some of the latter.

Chimps are cool.