Added 1 new A* page:I accidentally discovered a kinda cool effect working on this page. The last thing I did was add eyeballs (I was going to have the eyes be blank white but then that seemed like a little much), and the wash on the right one (her left) was a bit darker than I'd wanted, and I knew it had some pencil under it, so I thought I'd just give it a little rub with the eraser to see if that lightened it a bit; well, I hadn't waited long enough for the wash to dry, so it brought away part of the paper under the wash in this nifty iris-like pattern! Neato, thanks paper.
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If you haven't checked out A*'s deviantART page, well gosh! Not only is there lots and lots of stuff there--the pick of the litter from my artwork on multiple things, including A*--oh and here's that nice shiny button link to go there, so much more enticing than a boring old text link right?
So yeah not only is there loads of my better stuff there, I've lately been posting the uncropped versions of some of the more successful of the ink wash A* pages--so you can see the bits around the edges that don't fit into the online comic page; in some cases it's an extra, not inconsiderable amount of the image! For instance here's the uncropped version of episode 13, page 143, which I'm just hotlinking from deviantART heehee
Kind of fleshes it out a bit, right? So yeah go over to the A* deviantART page for more of those.
With the new paper I've been using this week, I can only leave tiny margins if I want to get as many A* pages out of each rather expensive paper sheet as I can, so the margins on the newer stuff won't be as big as on some of the old ones--BUT since I have to hand-cut them anyway, I'm cutting them so that it's close to even all around, and instead of having to draw a little framing rectangle on in pencil so I know where the actual visible web image will be, I just paint right to the edges of the paper. Eh okay that sounds like a load of gibberish; here's a photo of the latest page to show what I mean:
The cut paper size is about 17"x7.5", and the actual area that ends up fitting into the final online version of the A* page is 16"x6.75".
Also, I *finally* got a little hand mirror to keep by my drawing table, so I can check my own face for drawing reference instead of having to get up and run off to the bathroom mirror to remind myself, say, how lips look. :P Been using that since a couple pages ago, and it's already been pretty useful! I'd heard for ages how like Disney and other animators would all have little mirrors handy, to help capture expressions and stuff in their drawing, and I'd said to myself say that sounds like it couldn't hurt, I should get a little mirror one of these days, but I only just now finally did it, sheesh. It was 'cause I was reading this article on drawing characters by Lora Innes and it said pretty much exactly the same thing, and I was like okay I'm tired of hearing this over and over I'll just go get one stop nagging me already internet!
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