My artwork I feel is very hit or miss (more often than not, miss :P). I have about 100 deviations on my DA account, but only about 10 of them I like enough to "feature" them as something that I'm "proud" of. This is one of those pictures that just came out perfectly from conception to final product, and I had so much fun drawing it and trying a WHOLE BUNCHA brand new stuff.
Dude on the Projects Forum was having a Super Smash Bros. DRAWL (lol) art jam. I picked to draw Captain Falcon. I LOVE Captain Falcon's brash-ass, sometimes gaudy, but totally bad-ass character. I knew from the moment I saw CF as needing someone to draw him that I wanted to do a kind of "super Japanese"-looking kawaii pastel cool girl-looking picture with tons of textures and just photobooth-esque elements. And I knew I wanted to try my hand at foreshortening (which I NEVER do because me and perspective are like battered spouses).
So. Things new that I tried with this picture:
- High angle perspective
- Foreshortening
- NEW COOL ASS LINEART BRUSH
- NEW COOL ASS WATERCOLOR BRUSH AND JUST EXPERIMENT WITH THE OPACITY LOCK TOOL IN SAI
- Coloring techniques
- Super kawaii texture barf everywhere
- Trying out Adobe CS2 for the first time (prior to this, all pictures were post-processed in 7.0, lol)
I'm not usually very good at coloring, but I think it came out okay here. It took a lot of post-processing to get the colors to stop being muddy, but I think it worked out here. I think linearting and post-processing are becoming my favorite steps in drawing. I mean, I used to HATE linearting and found it to be SO tedious, but clearly this part is where I have the most fun, because it's the only part that's really drawing for me (sketching I tend to get caught up on minor details like OCD, and coloring, well, I suck at it). And I always have just loved post-processing, playing with colors, gradient maps, textures, filters, and whatnot. You know, I think if I could have a job, it would be linearting and post-processing. O_O I could see myself being like, an inker or something.
Uh, anyway, CAPTAIN FALCON! :D I'll upload a step-by-step process thing here later for my friend, but you're welcome to see it as well. I hope it's acceptable for Drawl!
