Noir 2 dee too

So I tried something with this morning's sketch. I loaded a 'medium round dots' paper texture which I got from a 'Painter X Wow!' book CD, and chalked in the grey dots to get some nice shading effects!

The cool thing is I can change the darkness/colour of the chalk I use to get different shades, whilst keeping the same size dots - makes it look a little different.

Old Me

So inspired by this post, http://heroprotagonist.livejournal.com/350365.html I sketched myself as a possible old person as a 'cool down' sketch of a Friday!

NY Bar

A chalk 'clone' (though hand painted) of a black and white photo taken by my friend and recent best man Gareth Coles, of a bar in Noo Yoik.

Quick sketch this morning using mostly the Bamboo pen tool and digital watercolour.

Plasterface

Quick sketch done this mornin' using the scratchboard tool - I thought I'd try using 'Bristol Board' paper from the 'Painter X Wow!' book CD to see if it makes any difference from using plain ol' basic paper, and I think it does - maybe - still, looks authentically ink on paper-like! (The shading is just a sponge.)

Drag n' Drop

Horror Comic progress

I've been working up the rough for the comic cover - it's definitely getting there now that I've added colour to it, but I think I need to perhaps go back to the rough and clean it up properly, as I've just been 'adding' to it up 'til now. Either that or I might start on new cover idea - we'll see!

I roughed out the pose with 2B pencils, and have been adding colour using acrylics captured bristle in Painter X, though with the halftone effect being a bit too big, you can't really tell - and I liked the look of the brush strokes, so will have to experiment with that!