joshcolon asked you:
First off, I love this blog, it has helped me SO much. On to the question: My nude figure drawing is pretty decent. Always more to learn, but I can do it. I am having problems going to the next step in drawing fully clothed figures and designing armor. I can draw nude figures from my imagination mostly convincing but I cant make the jump. So how do I apply what i’ve learned from figure drawing to doing complete character drawings? How do I learn folds and Armor ect. from imagination?Yaaaaay folds!!
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all the fold tutorial you need in the world!
o h m y g o d IM NOT DRAWING VELOCE/BLACKBIRD
jk this is a product of my guilt, the sketch was veloce but I painted it into weirin
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Carciphona IV pages 11-12 up! Somebody is late to the party for minor characters.
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CP homepage: http://carciphona.com
Bookshop: http://shilin.storenvy.com
Mangamagazine: http://www.mangamagazine.net/manga-and-comics/Carciphona/detail-page/477?lang=en
…Why didn’t you just answer them normally? Not the sharpest tool in the shed, huh?
- Did you get formal training with your art? how would a wannabe start?
I don’t have formal training; I suggest everyone start by drawing whatever they enjoy drawing and be able to feel some sort of satisfaction through drawing. If drawing fascinates you more than it makes you feel depressed/competitive/jealous/frustrated, then I’m sure your instincts will teach you how to find resources all around you on how to become better because one of the first things you think of when you see something useful would be “oh I’m going to try this/I’m going to stare at this for 10 minutes and try to remember it because it’d be so much fun to try on my drawings” - This is sort of silly, but I can’t read the first page of Fisheye Placebo… Is that because of lowered quality? The text is all blurry… I can read the prologue perfectly fine though.
It is pretty silly because you got the wrong artist c: the artist for fisheye is Yuumei - Hey Shilin! I was wondering how did you customize your tumblr to look like this?? Do you have experience with scripting language? I wanted to make my own tumblr webpage too, but I have no clue how to go about doing so :(
I edited a theme I took into what I have now. You can find that theme by the “theme” link on my page. I know enough to be able to edit codes but I can’t really write anything from scratch myself for something complicated like tumblr. There are lots of themes available for tumblr that you can just take the code of. - I remember reading a while back that you don’t ink the pages for carciphona and that you just press really hard with your pencil and then touch it up in photoshop. Do you still do that? Like for the most recent pages? I feel like doing all that dynamic swishy smokey looking stuff so cleanly in pencil could get… Tricky? Messy? I’m not sure what word I’m looking for haha. Either way I love carciphona. Keep working hard! : D
I still do that (: I’m very used to using the pencil for that kind of thing now so it’s not hard for me (at least I can erase when I mess up HAHA) I also use photoshop levels and dodge/burn to clean up any fuzz so it’s not a big deal! I think I draw more cleanly than before now because my drawings are more decisive from experience, so it’s just something you will to get used to over time. I will keep working hard! - How much would you say your upbringing, family and experiences in life have shaped the world and story of carciphona? Have any characters ended up being influenced/ drawn upon from yourself, or people in your life?
My experiences do have an immense impact in my story writing, I’m not good enough yet to write something I don’t believe in while still still making it believable. While my life is not nearly as dramatic as my story (it’s quite peaceful and nothing big ever happens) I do find that sometimes things end up happening in ways that resemble my story afterwards, because of how closely similar our values and the values of characters in the story is. Every character exhibits some values I have myself, look up to, or notice in others. A lot of the character relations are things I’ve thought about, come across, or worried about being possible between myself and/or others. But because of the connection between what I expression and what I find familiar, a lot of times my story and its characters risk being limited and lacking in contrast and it’s something I try very carefully to break free of.
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I’ll be making the process of this picture into a tutorial sort of thing when I have time sometime next month ^^ Info on how to get the high resolution version of this is in the artist comment on DA, enjoy!
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My shop: http://shilin.storenvy.com
Website: http://shilin.net
DA: http://shilin.deviantart.com
My manga on Mangamagazine: http://www.mangamagazine.net/manga-and-comics/Carciphona/detail-page/477?lang=en
My manga on Tapastic: http://tapastic.com/series/260
Carciphona IV pages 9-10 up!
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CP homepage: http://carciphona.com
Bookshop: http://shilin.storenvy.com
Mangamagazine: http://www.mangamagazine.net/manga-and-comics/Carciphona/detail-page/477?lang=en
tay-bee asked you:(lets see if i can word this right haha) for the smaller speedlines that show fast movement of a certain limb/weapon/etc (not background speedlines) do you have any tips on knowing where to place them or ways to draw them to show the movement?
I’ll be using panels from my manga Carciphona to explain what I do. Like all tutorials or guides from me, please use with caution!! Everything I know is based on personal observation and some vague memory of things I’ve learned, so they are educated guesses at best and I am sorry if any of this is wrong to the point that makes people cringe. It’s unfortunate I get asked to give tips because I have no education to back it up but I hope this is more helpful than deceitful……….
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To start: speed line is pretty much motion blur, that blur you see in photos of moving things. In line art such as b/w comics, the blurring is achieved through lines too, and that’s where all the speed lines come from, it replaces the sharpness of hard shapes/edges (ie blocks of shadows and fine line) with less defined shapes that are achieved by lines. the slower the movement, the shorter the speed lines, the faster the longer/more dense the speed lines.
1. speed lines over outlines
I’ll use this panel as an example even though the speed lines here depict more of an impact tremour or whatever than motion.
1a. Light speed lines: I think it’s ok sometimes to just slap on speed lines after you draw a static figure but maybe it’s just my lazy standards…in this picture there is some of that, like on the tree trunks that are not really moving. I put very small speed lines in various parts of the line so that there is sort of a uneven but still balanced speed line texture on all of the trees:
I erased little gaps at some parts of the outlines to make it not look so ridiculously lazy, and at parts that are farther away (eg at the letter A) the lines disappear altogether in favour of simply speed lines because I think that place would be farther away/more obscured and therefore should not be well defined enough to even have a crisp lined edge.
1b. Heavier speed lines: Sometimes speed lines over line art looks pretty bad, even if the width of the motion blur is small. It can be a quick movement, or it can be a not so solid object (clouds, dust, fabric, etc). In those cases, I replace the outlines entirely with speed lines: 
The arcs in these parts are sort of explosive waves that radiate outwards from the explosion. It’s not really anything with a definite shape, so the blurring of the edges should be heavier than the previous case.
Common mistake: mind the direction of movement. It is easy, especially when drawing background effects, to draw the long arcs, and then instinctively want to make the speed lines along those outlines. Despite the shape of the arcs, the movement is perpendicular to its shape, so the direction of the speed lines should reflect that, even if it takes you 10x as long to draw nicely.
2. Speed lines in shadows/blacks
I’ll use this panel as an example. the camera is zooming in, and the legs of the super close up foreground is in motion while being completely in shadow:
Blacks and shadowed areas are great places to lay speed lines. It’s like shading except with lines! It gives you lots of control over how the resulting shape will look like and lots of opportunities for texture.
2a. Shape distortion: the blur results from multiple images of a single thing being captured in the same frame, and the merge of those images sometimes result a distorted figure which most people perceive as movement. while it can be done with line drawings too, it’s a lot easier to do with shadowed shapes because you’d be thinking about the form rather than skipping straight to the contour of the distorted figure. In the picture above, because Kasga is running forward, I start the speed lines well inside the outlines of his legs because the light surround it bleeds into the figure of his legs. Similarly the speed lines extend beyond the outlines behind him.
For distortion over line drawing, pretty much picture if I had traced the shape of the shadow above and used that instead for Kaska’s legs. This sort of effect should be scarcely used and reserve for extremities of a figure or vast amount of movement, otherwise whatever you’re drawing is going to end up looking like jelly.
2b. Texture: while sometimes it is desirable to have perfectly parallel lines or lines that do not cross each other for speed lines, I feel like it’s situational and sometimes times that clean texture makes the comic look rigid and computed, or amateur (I don’t know why, it’s probably just a personal preference). While I do use a ruler to draw speed lines, I like to use it only to draw some guidelines so that I know the general direction at each given corner of the panel, and then freehand the rest. The result is texture at places where some freehand speed lines meet or cross:
You can tell which lines are done using a ruler and which ones are done freehand.
extra: You can express depth by varying the amount of blur each object has. The closer to the camera obviously the larger the amount of movement, but also in the case of moving body parts, the farther away from a joint, the more movement that part of the limb is going to go through:
Combined examples of both uses of speed lines:
It’s easier to draw dashed lines by drawing a line then erasing parts of it, and the same logic applies to drawing gapped outlines in speed line situations. It’s easier to use white and draw some white lines on of the black outlines AFTER you’re done, than to try to achieve everything in one shot in your initial line drawing (In letter B)
sometimes the speed line effect can be done on screentones as well in combination with inking.
lol this is terrible BUT YEAH you get the point!
hope this was helpful! ;;
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Hi everyone!
Sharon and I are signed onto team to work on a project for Defiant Mouse called Lex Laser Saves the Galaxy, Again, a game that combines puzzle solving and turn-based combat tactics play. The kickstarter campaign to help fund the making of the game launched recently and we’d love for everyone to take a look and spread the word!! I’m currently designing the look of the game and making art, and Sharon will be contributing to the team as the QA Lead and other little things.
It’d mean a lot to us if we can fully work on producing a finished, polished version of Lex Laser. Even if you can’t donate, just reblogging or sharing this with your friends would help us out tremendously!
Thank you!!!
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look what I found :D too bad my regular game boy was probably left in china and now in a dumpster somewhere
- I don’t ): I stream whenever I feel like, but if it helps you narrow down the time frame a little, I generally work between 2pm-11pm EST (haha sorry I was serious about the “a little” part orz)
- finished illustrations take me 10-20 hours (sometimes way more but that’s rare), for my scraps 1-2 hours
- your fanmail is closed to followers only so I couldn’t answer you in private, but yes ship all of the veloces and blackbirds yaaa
- I’ll leave my financial details private, but I think it’s like a 1:2 ratio of contract work to personal stuff? I really don’t know because sometimes I do nothing but personal stuff for months and sometimes vice versa
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- while I have deadlines to meet (commissions need to be done by a certain date, I always need to have comic pages to post, etc) those are very general and I usually do whatever I feel like doing that day. Sometimes I feel like drawing nothing but pages for months, sometimes I just want to paint and other times I don’t want to draw at all. I wake up work/eat/exercise/sleep and that’s pretty much as close as I can get to any sort of a schedule.
- I am not that crazy about the language, but it has some pretty looking letter arrangements for some words! I am a classically trained musician and that’s where I got those Italian terms from ^^
Carciphona IV pages 7-8 up! no more colour pages ;-;
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CP homepage: http://carciphona.com
Bookshop: http://shilin.storenvy.com
Mangamagazine: http://www.mangamagazine.net/manga-and-comics/Carciphona/detail-page/477?lang=en
the process of this scrap was rather standard instead of my otherwise paint inexplicably everywhere and eyeball everything method, so I thought I’d post it! I used a lot of layer modes to end up with the final colours. I usually do this when I don’t know what I want to do with the colour scheme, as you can see I laid down his colours without any lighting interaction (just plain red, skin colour, white, green etc). if I have a clear atmosphere in mind I usually pick the final mixed colours straight from the colour picker without relying on layer modes to grant me the colour interaction.
posting as photoset instead of gif because tumblr’s photoset browsing is seamless anyway ^^
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Thanks for watching the livestreams this week! I’ll post the finished illustration in the near future and make it into a tutorial when I have time. Right now it’s painting a few more pictures in time for AN and carciphona pages for next month :D might stream those illustrations if I feel like it
