BDay and stuff and art

[reymonkey]

Weeell, there's white stuff on the ground, but it isn't snow. I'm not looking forward to scraping the ice off the car later. The sleet or whatever is still coming down pretty steadily.
Snow or not, Happy Birthday to morrbiddus! I will do Arlen fanart, I swear.
The holdup is I've been frantically illustrating this thing for courtneycrumrin and evillurks which I am going to plug here because I can. Fisher will show up at one point later on, but I'll admit I'm mostly plugging it because art! It's not my best work, I'm tearing through a drawing and a half a day, although I fell behind on the weekend. Alternating between the style of Edd Cartier and Ted Naifeh, although I feel like the Naifeh style ones are both harder and turn out better. It's all hard edged, and I have to think seriously about negative space and making the black figures show up against the black thing with all the black. In the charcoal Cartier-style ones I can blur edges and use greytones and all so it's easier.
Story thus far:
Chapter 1 here
Chapter 2 here
Chapter 3 here
Chapter 4 here
Chapter 5 here
Chapter 6 here


Because Aloysius and The Shadow are twins separated at birth.


Super sekrit preview for tonight's chapter.



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Comments

[del-the-psycho.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that last one is AWESOME in the use of solid blacks. I've always loved that style. How'd you get it without any sort of brushstrokes showing?

Also, you should show your household this post! WE WANT YOU DOODZ

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha it is called Image>Adjust>Levels in photoshop. Trust me, big swathes of sharpie-colored black do not look that good in person. Plus I colored some of the detail areas with my biggest Pigma pen and that's darker so it gets all blotchy. This is totally the genius of scanning it in and putting it on the computer.

Woohoo! Re'd and all. I pick at D_M but there's a lot of days I want to RP and there's nothing there I want to respond to.