Coloring Tutorial & Timelapse

This is my most complicated video yet! I even have voice over now! Footage and audio taken over several days, this would have been done sooner but… heh… um… Mass Effect 2 came out.

Anyway, as of right now I’m still working on this piece, when I’m done I’ll delete this sentence and add the drawing to the post.

This video comes close to 10 minutes long, but I pop in now and then to explain some techniques I use or why I’m doing certain things and narrate while constantly losing my train of thought, so hopefully it’s informative to someone out there.

If you like, comment! I crave feedback! Anything to say about the picture before I finish it and embarrass myself with a mistake would be appreciated too.

Digital Ink Timelapse 2: The Artist’s Bane

I was really struggling with this drawing. You don’t see the very beginning of it because I thought I shouldn’t record it. But then it occurred to me: timelapses make people look far more competent than they really are so it might be fun to watch me messing up and erasing and getting frustrated as artists do (also didn’t help I was working on that arm like an hour and a half before I had to go to work.) So that’s basically the beginning of the video. This one comes in at a whopping 6 1/2 minutes as the rest of it is nearly the entire drawing so it’s twice as long as the last two, but it’s also funnier so I hope you enjoy it!

How to Cheat at Backgrounds

It’s a sad truth that most people can’t draw everything. Artists who are good at drawing organic things like trees and people are usually bad at drawing man-made things like cars and buildings, and vice versa. This is why in comics and animation you generally have a specialized background artist working on the project. Or in the more manga-centric world the use of screentones, which you’ll see me use screentone flowers in this video. Despite the fact they are indeed organic flowers are surprisingly one of the hardest things to draw.