Re: VanderHuge Studios

This is a poster I made. It's a fictional character to the character. This was harder than I give it credit for. One thing I hadn't thought until I pretty much sat down to draw it, was that I couldn't draw a cartoon in the comic the same way I drew the "real" characters. I wanted bigger, (even more) clumsier lines. I drew this and inked it the same way I do everything else. Then I took a brush and tracing paper and made a worse drawing of it. It's still a little more realistic than I'd draw if I drew it again, but I think it'll work.  This poster's going to be on the wall a lot, so I'm just going to print it on the page, then just trace it when I ink the page. It's pretty common for people that have to draw a 2d drawing in 3d space to just leave the space blank and warp the image there later with photoshop. I think it's just an eye sore on the page, so I'm tracing it on all the pages. Also, hopefully, that will ma...

I drew the original of this a long time ago. Probably 7 or 8 months ago? The other day I was shuffling through things when I found the original pencil drawing. When I drew it, I printed the pencils and inked those, so what I found was just the drawing. When I found it, I noticed it was very off model. So, I redrew it and finished it again. It's not perfect, but it's way more on model this time. I've got one more official pre-production drawing to do before I really start on this. It's not even really pre-production, it's going to be directly used in the comic. I'll use it on maybe 10 to 20 pages. But, after that, I really start on this for real. I've got half or more than half of the pages laid out, so, I think I'll intermittently switch between thumbnailing and drawing pages. I might update more often now, but still, probably not very regularly. We'll see.

These were tiny doodles- just a couple inches. Not meant to be awe-inspiring, just something to try a few things on. One problem that I knew I was going to have, was that hair was going to be over the character's face pretty much the whole time. Covering your main character's face isn't generally a good thing, but I like long hair because it's fun to draw. Like, usually, I can use it as a cape, with wind, or weight, or whatnot. Plus, there's no one here giving me orders or telling me I can't. I try to do as much as I can in real life because I still hate doing this stuff on computer. I started using sharpies and tracing paper instead for the tones so that I could just copy and paste shapes, but I think it'll take a little getting used to. I'm getting to the point where, if this process were a movie, Eye of the Tiger would've just started to fade in. The other day I bought the font I'm going to use. Before then, I was just going...