just playing around with photoshop

this is a try at using Photoshop alone as a character design medium- the process on doing this face was to rough sketch it on one layer- clean up on second layer- erase the initial sketch layer and flat shade colors underneath the cleaned up line sketch- i then merge layers together and start erasing the lines by painting joining flat colors over it ( 100% opacity/100%flow)- I know that lines are really made up of changes in clors or hue or gaps where shadow sinks in- so forming them with color looks natural-- soft transitions are made wiith the healing brush aperpendicular to color lines and smudge parlallel to them- well here it is anyway- forget what i just said....

boy hip-style

trying to explore a vector style for a new comic I want to do- Ill just post this hip dude to help inspire me to continue in this vein- still trying to determine if Illustrator(tm) or Flash(tm) will be the program of choice- this is a Flash(tm) made character with a Photoshop(tm) background- I am getting really inspired by Arthur De Pins of France ( animator and cartoonist) for this "no-line" look- i will keep exploring- you can see more of Arthur's work at www.arthurdepins.com

last cookie cutter girl post- colored image

here is my attempt at doing a colored image of cookie cutter girl character- still looks stiff to me but its a start- I colored this in illustrator and I like the feel- one day i will do a comic with this kind of feel- well hope the judges for the cookie cutter girl contest like it if only a little bit- cheers

cookie cutter girl again

here is another sketch page to hopefuly find a facial look and style to fit the "americal manga " criteria feel- i still have cartooning in mind but need to think manga- buts its still cool

cookie cutter girl

Patrick Hatfield keyed me onto a manga contest for a comic for a singing artist name cookie cutter girl- so here a brif look at my character sketches to prepare a quick colored pinup- I particularly like the face labeled 1 the best but the body gesture for image 3 best- so I will start the design with 3 in mind...

faces-faces-faces

Arvell Jones- a Marvel and DC legend told me to draw faces all the time for practice- I just can't seem to shake doing it- aw well

just some environmentals

I know I keep focusing on storyboards, comics and characters but just some environmental sketches here- since scenery is also a character- all were done either in photo shop or painter 9