June 19, 2012

Commission for Father's Day

A friend of mine liked the drawing I did for my Facebook profile...  And she thought it'd make an awesome Father's Day gift to have her husband and their young boy dressed up like the dynamic duo.  So, after specifics were worked out, the above art was created.  And everybody was happy.

While working on this piece, I was falling behind in my timeline... and was looking for a place to save some time... I usually draw in pencil, and lately I've been hand inking.  After I scan the image, I adjust the brightness and contrast levels to get the dark blacks, and then color in Photoshop.  But, I didn't want to do that inking process with this piece... (mainly cuz the clean up is a time consuming bitch, and can lead to an "unclean" look) and took myself to YouTube to learn some new techniques in the land of digital inking...  I stumbled upon the below video and fiddled with that technique and applied it to the above art.  It turned out pretty well, I might of fine tuned it a bit more, but again, time was an issue.  So anybody wanna try it, here's the video.