Some doodling

I've recently been playing with some new software, and this is part of that process. I'm enjoying using MangaStudio and my Wacom as a sort of fancy digital sketch book, and these hand studies are part of the learning curve I'm on.

Idiot Wind continues

Here's the next page of my Idiot Wind. I realise that it makes little sense at the moment; the current absence of text in a non-linear story is, of course, not helping, but I'll be adding the text when I've done a few more pages.

What I'm attempting to do here is to show both a shift in character focus in the story (the shading moves from colouring both where the characters are together, to just on her as she leaves), and a physical and emotional withdrawl as the female lead leaves.

It's been correctly pointed out, by much, much better writers and artists than me, that I'm not quite hitting it correctly yet, so when I go back in for a final pass on these pages, I'll make some changes, and slightly re-do some elements of the page.

New story

This is really just fiddling about. It's being fit in and around other things and, as usual, I'm hoping rather than expecting to be able to bring it to some sort of conclusion.

At the moment, I'm thinking that the final work won't be much more polished than this, in an attempt to get away from the tightness of my work. I may add a wash to it once the background's working in, but I may also wait until more pages are done so I can see if it's needed.

New software, Booo

I hate new software, it never does what I want it to do, and forces me to learn.

I brought a copy of MangaStudio, mostly for it's inking properties, but have started to play with penciling directly in. It's tricky, and certainly it's The Future, but I suspect I'll stick to unsing dead trees for a good while yet.

Steampunk Commission

I don't often do commissions - mostly as no bugger is daft enough to want one, but this piece started out as one. I got stiffed on the fee, so it ended up as being just for fun.

More Idiot Wind

A couple more pages from Idiot Wind. It's about relationships, sex and mistakes really, and is non-linear, so will make sod-all sense until more pages are up (and the text is dropped in).

Progression

It's been a couple of years since I started drawing again with anything approaching seriousness, and I thought I'd re-visit something I'd played with back then to see how I'd progressed. I think the realism went up, if the soul went down.