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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Your shadowing is something I was thinking about doing as well if I had more room to experiment.
Oh, I'm the dude doing the comic on the SF mag right now. Saw your comment over on the SFM Blogspot and wanted to check you out, haha. Gotta ask, how long does it take you to do a page? And I'm guessing your working professionally, right?
Yeah, I draw on 11"x17" cardstock art boards. I'm lucky that I have a scanner that can scan it in, only 3 pieces and I put it back together on Photoshop after I'm done. It's really quick.
For a while I stopped dropping shadows, so I couldn't hide things in shadow like I used to. So I was forced to draw things open and had to draw them and couldn't cheat it anymore. Once I got to where I felt like I wasn't cheating it anymore, I started to put shadows back into my work again.
Depending on how complicated the page is, it could take me a day to two-three days to finish a page, if there's a lot going on. Kind of working professionally, but it never hurts to try to get more exposure and plus I love Street Fighter.
Thanks for checking out my stuff.
11x17 is probably the best because it gives you a ton of room to play with all the small details in a drawing. But all that extra size comes in with some extra work to actually finish. I can see how it would take two to three days dude. The way I'm thinking, if I ever were to do this as a pro, I'd have to churn out at least a page a day in order to meet deadline before the end of the month. If I was doing a maxi-series that is. If I was only doing 12 comics or something, I'd probably have a comic or two stored away and then start putting them out once a month while still working on the rest of the comics.
I can see what you mean. That gives me an amazing idea. I love the way sometimes the shadow on a figure takes away all the detail on the inside. I should really try that! Maybe for issue 3 if I find an inker. I'll start laying down shadows to play with. But I get what you're saying. Sometimes you get so used to hiding something in the shadows and when you get to the point that you can't, you're stuck! Trying to redraw the same thing over and over because you didn't practice it before really stinks. Kudo's dude for figuring that out before it was too late!