tunnel rat

just trying to loosen up my sketchbook pro skills- I put ti down for a piece to do some comic work on photoshop cs5- but will try to do some concept work in the near future and to be honest sketch book pro has its focus on concept design and digital tools geared to the concept design artist- so i had to really learn how brushes are made again- so off to youtube and vimeo for some tutorials... I created this tunnel rat image with sketchbook pro and a some custom made brushes- I wasn't planning on anything special but the control with the linear brushes after they are created is exceptional- got a lot more work to do on painting and coloring as one can see- but I will let you take a peak at the image- Tunnel rat- peace

anime look- spike

just looking at Cowboy bebop movie and decided to pull off my rendition of Spike- this is a  another cel shade practice piece for me.  The image was done in photoshop cs5- a program that is increasingly becoming my  digital art tool of choice... The initial line work was sketch on background layer and finished on layer 1 using pen tool, ( with both fill in and create stroke) the brush used is  round hard brush at 100%opacity and 100% flow with shape dynamics  minimum diameter set at 65%  to give an even thin line... The base color and shade are done 3 layers between background -- layer 2 for facial tone, layer 3 for clothes, and layer 4 for hair--- I used lasso tool to map out ares of tone then later use lock transparent pixels to stay inside the lines for further rendering... for feathering effect- i used the smudge tool set at 80% strength.  For any further layers I used clipping layers- also to stay within the lines... my last set is the erase the background layer and add a hard brush tone with low flow for the background....