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This one's getting colored- I wanted am 'easy' pic to play around with that on. I even started coloring it! I retraced it to clean pencil linework for coloring which I've ditched because I like all my wayward sketchlines, started in on it, kinda liking where it's going...

Except I've realized just how much I need to alter my typical coloring style. Especially for hair. Since I'm drawing it radically different (Especially Sly's with the super short, blocky way I draw it now).

Though really, while I do/did like my usual coloring style... it's time to change that up too. Srsly. If anything, just so I can learn new ways of coloring things in rather than using the same techinques over and over and over again.

*wills next episode of Dexter to download faster* >C

Edit: OH MY GOD, I finally found a fricking brush in painter X that does (mostly) what the brushes I used to use constantly were SUPPOSED to do! (And which painter X ruined for me.) I'm saved! :DDD

Been a while.. again. Figured i'd take it a little easier tonight to better recover from this cold, so I plopped in front of the TV and drew a bit.




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Anyway. I really ought to buckle down and work more on Schism. Though while drawing these I had a bit of a revelation on why Jericho's hair gives me so many issues when trying to draw it, so I'm probably gonna play with his hairstyle even *more* the really beat it into submission. Yeah, I'm being picky as all fuck with him since he is one of the most important characters in the story.

In thinking about the comic again, I've also re-realized how horribly, horribly I undervalued the importance of scripting the story out beforehand. While I have gotten plenty of compliments on the plot in Schism v.1, it really does show that I was basically playing improv connect-the-dots with the story. Had my big plot points, and then just freestyled it from one to the next. I can't do that again, it can get so messy so quick. Schism v.2's plot might end up being a lot more different from the original than I'd planned. But it feels good to have the story evolving like this. Makes it feel like a living thing again rather than a static, cold entity that I was just trying to plow through to get to the end.

Um.. more babble than I intended, sorry! Bedtime!

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Just some quick crap sketches, excuses to practice a little in putting people in actual environments/settings.

Random thoughts concerning art: When I started in college, I was somewhat annoyed because I felt I had to start all over again from the basics. Like the art classes in high school counted for nothing. I'm basically doing the exact same thing over, only this time it's by choice. It feels kinda weird, but also refreshing in a way. It's relaxing and interesting, and there's no real pressure to please or kick ass, except for my desire to improve.


These above were both drawn from photo references, and while I do think it's good I'm using a lot of references, I still kinda get a slight fear that I won't be able to just draw out of my head later on when I need to. But I suppose that's a bit of a silly thought. The more you're used to drawing from life, the more you know about how everything is laid out and formed in actuality, the easier it is to constructed it inside your head without a reference later on.

Man. I've got such a long way to go still. But hay, much like life, art's a journey too. XD

Been working some on scripting the overhaul of Schism too. Though as I started doing it, and as I think more about it, what I really ought to do first is do a rough outline for the entire story and determine what needs to happen/be done/get across with each chapter. Which will definitely help in getting the individual chapters scripted in detail easier. God, it's gonna be forever before I finally get it started again with all that and my determination to get my art skills back on track to make it supremely kickass. I'm definitely not going to rush the process though- Progress might be going slow, but the end result will be worth it I hope. :3