Weekly news #18
Added 2015-08-13 10:32:17 +0000 UTCHi Patrons, I'm able to post a Weekly n°18 this week ! The weather here is very rainy with big storms , and my holidays at mountain were moved to next week ( big storm season at mountain is too dangerous ). It's a bit the chaos in my schedule, and I focus to draw on paper and upgrade my pencil skill. With all this storms around, it's better to not start-up computer for too long. This morning it' s almost calm in the sky, and I did a session to scan my drawings, and do a montage with notes.
★ Weekly bonus ★
A picture with a sample of my recent drawings on paper ( 2B mechanical pencil 0.5mm over sketch done with a 4H rounded pencil , on A4 Bristol paper ). Scan with Xsane at 300ppi in sRGB colors, then simply added a pass of desaturation, and Level in Krita to get the paper white. I also attach one of the full-res scan PNG.
✥ Notes about painting technique
On last episode, I tried to render all the panels with speedpainting and then add all the definitions, details and edges when I was detailing each panels. As you know if you read the last weekly, it took me more time than I expected and it was really difficult to transform the rough speedpaintings into many detailed paintings.
So, I'm planning to draw next episode with pencil at first ( especially for characters facial expression, poses and mimic , painting background from scratch with Krita is still faster ).
Drawing all doesn't mean for me to do clean 'line-art' as I forced myself to produce on episode 03, 05 and 06 to take advantage of the G'Mic [colorize] filter. This time I'll draw a bit more 'sketchy' with guidelines, cross-hatching zones, darkening hair, and make mini lines here and there to describe the volumes.
It's not a new technique, it's the technique of 'episode 08 : Pepper's Birthday Party' , and I think the best one so far I made for Pepper&Carrot. I described this technique on September 2012 in a tutorial "Pencil to digital painting" at this time I was using three software : Gimp, Krita, Mypaint to get this final rendering. Nowaday, the full workflow can be done with Krita only. So, I'll add on my to-do : update this tutorial to a 2015 version soon.
✥ Contributions :
- After maintaining all Russian translation , UncleNight took back the maintainance of the Ukrainian translation started month ago by Deburger.
- New translation for latest episode 9 : Chinese, Esperanto, Mexicano and Magyar
- Esperanto translation had a total correction over all episodes thanks Librefan
- On the blog, the first 3D printing of Carrot ( just an embossed drawing on plastic ) by Calvin
I'm back now to my paper and pencils for episode 10 ! Thank you a lot for your support !
Comments
Hi David. Thanks for your reply and explanations! Wow each panel is 4h to 10h long? So by any means, you're doing all the details on each panels then move to another one? That's really a great efforts! By any means, even you're taking time to reply to me with detailed explanations & information throughout as well. Truly David, you are a humble and great artist! It's pretty RARE we have such a noble one like you. You've totally proven yourself and even to me to start becoming a 'savior' in this cruel artistic world. Respect! I'll definitely catch you up with my fan-art of Pepper (and of course Carrot!) and I (hope) you could even repost that once it's done! ^^ Thank you very much for your time and God bless all of things you're working through! Amen!
2015-08-14 12:06:25 +0000 UTCHey Dreamslandia, Thank you for the encouragement to keep posting sketches! About the time, I'm still in a fork of 4h to 10h per panel ( or more, that's why I try to write story with around 25 panels , to have 100h min and 250h max per story ). It depends the composition and amount of characters in the panel, backgrounds details, and lighting in a scene. The 'speedpainting then detailing' workflow is the longer one. Especially on characters. It's hard to layout the correct pose, expression and mimic with speedpainting, so there is a big cleaning during the detailing ( a big step of trial and error, with many strokes corrected , unused, removed ). For a landscape ( especially organic and natural ) 'speedpainting then detailing' workflow is faster ; it's easy to block big shapes and just add subvolumes to it, and detail on the top. Painting the house of Pepper is not really complex this way. For characters and facial expressions, having a solid drawing or sketch ; then coloring under the lines, then painting-over the overall is faster and predictible. So, all in all, I'm moving to an hybrid workflow depending the scene , but I'll stick to draw on paper ( I hope ). Drawing on paper is full of constrain but helps me to think a bit more prior to paint or draw. I hope all this informations are not too confusing , and you'll find good thing to pick from it to build your own workflow.
David Revoy
2015-08-14 08:34:53 +0000 UTCDear David Revoy, you've been working so hard to bring Pepper & Carrot to life! And it was amazing to see those scanned sketches to inspire me more with traditional drawings. I'm a new fan of yours and I apologize to let you know that my 'gift' will be delayed after what I asked before where to put my fan-art. By any means, please keep doing the posts with sketches. It's really inspiring! And also what you share deserves more attention! (And new patrons of course!!) Good luck on your journey. But I have something in mind, if this doesn't bothered you; how much is your approximately time to do the full colored ones? And which ones is the faster way to achieve (speed painting to paint over or anything else)?
2015-08-14 02:07:21 +0000 UTCThank you Allan :)
David Revoy
2015-08-13 21:07:55 +0000 UTCI love the amount of planning and design work you put into your characters it makes them stand apart. :)
Allan Zieser
2015-08-13 20:37:50 +0000 UTCThank you. Yes, growing and try to make the Hereva Studio is still the main target. Yes, I'll keep sending exclusive bonus to Patron each week, as I do now ; with fresh news and sketches about the next episodes. I'll just release the best-of online on the website after each episode ( after a month or more ). Yes, no paywall ; I must take care of this :-) Thank you for your time and advices.
David Revoy
2015-08-13 20:03:51 +0000 UTCMany thanks, but you are doing all the work, so leaving a comment is the minimum to do, I think. :-) I think thats a good idea, so you can reach more people, which are passing by on your side. And so you may get more potential patrons and then we get more artwork from you. :-) (I'm waiting for Hereva Studio) Is that the right way to understand your intention? I'm also ok with the "weekly bonus" to be patron exklusive (for a little time). That's open source and no paywall! Yeah!
2015-08-13 19:56:42 +0000 UTCThank you Stephan for feedback about the pencil artwork , and many thanks also in general for often letting a little comment here. I need an advice ; I plan to start soon a new 'weekly' thing : Put the 'weekly news' ( the text / diary ) on the blog , public ; and keep here the 'weekly bonus' only ( a montage of fresh sketch, video, or work-in-progress ). I also plan to release the weekly bonus on main website after a month or two , when I like it and want to share it. What do you think if I apply this change ?
David Revoy
2015-08-13 17:49:06 +0000 UTC
