Re-do

So I had to basically re-do both illustration from scratch. I honestly have to start getting these textures digitized and work on everything digitally or scan the line art and get a good printer to print it again on watercolour paper. It's too much work. Oh well, there's still things I want to fix on these two, but considering I've been working on them endlessly since who knows how long I'm going to stop for now. These are what I'm going to present for the "mega-crit" .... I love new art and design words; they're always so special.

Train God - colour

I'm starting to work on the colour for the Train God. It's going to be a lot of work.

Buddha

So I'm finally finished Buddha begging on the subway. Less inking involved, but still bigger than normal for me. 11" x 17" live area with 1/2" bleed all around. I'm really liking the textures I'm getting. And oh yeah, I've got my own "seal"/digital signature. My name bastardized into pseudo Chinese letters. I can almost hear all the Illuminati artist rolling in their graves 'cause of me. I should almost feel proud *laughs*

Train God - Final Ink

It took about 5 days of work, but I'm finally done. There's mistakes here and there, but I find I always make those with illustrations and sometimes it's nice that way though it could be a justification. But oh well. This is too huge for me to want to do another ink version of it ... at least not without shortcuts. I've included close-up photos though two are sorta blurry. I've got to learn to take good photos one day. For anyone wondering why the edges are kinda sloppy, that's cause I got tired and didn't want to ink all the way to the edge. I've got an inch bleed all around and that's more than enough since it's normally 1/4 to 1/2 inch bleed instead. And yes, the white ring is intentionall, it's meant as a secondary "glow"/"halo" effect for the god. I've still got to colour this and that will hopefully be quickly which I'm sure it is with watercolours 'cause nothing can take longer than all those hatching.

for now ...

I'm almost done the inking ... the last part is taking almost forever. There's just so much white space compared to the other places so I've started to section things off which has given me some odd abstract things or maybe I'm starting to see things? I might try to do this on a sheet for paper for fun and do some small doodles/spot illustrations in the abstract spaces created.

.... to be continued ...

Another day

... and some more progress. More pictures tomorrow as I hopefully get most of it done ... at least the hatching anyways, which feels like it's going to take forever to get done and it might. I've got that huge section left which I think is like almost the size of the rest of the hatched ray-shadow area combined. I think I might have to darken and thicken some of the really thin lines, but I'm not too sure about that. Oh yeah, the last too photos area bit blurry but I'm too tired to re-take them. More pictures tomorrow as I hopefully get more done.

Girl Smoking

Another sketch over the weekend (I think...). I screwed up on the hands so I might re-draw this eventually, but I like the rest of it. The textures and things are pretty cool.