Nat's banality-log - Staal The Completed

Staal The Completed

Jul. 13th, 2008 at 9:02 PM

The image to the left is a full colour version of my previous sketch of Sontaran General Staal, The Undefeated.

Unlike all previous pieces I've created, this is entirely coloured using the airbrush tool and does not include black lines. I actually started by drawing black lines and colouring underneath them, but I found that it actually looked better with the lines layer turned off.

This just took four hours work to complete, not including the original sketch. I think this settles whether to use black lines or not when trying for a realistic 'digital painting' effect. I think this looks far better than anything I've drawn before!

Now I should probably eat something as it's got quite late while I was hyper-focusing on my painting...

Music:7/7: The Angels of Edgeware Road

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llieno wrote:

Jul. 14th, 2008 02:33 am (UTC)

He really does look like a potato.

I really like your stuff as of late!

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36 wrote:

Jul. 15th, 2008 05:24 pm (UTC)

Thanks, I think the practice is starting to pay off. I also think experimenting with different tools has paid off -- if I use the airbrush it's like what's in my head comes out, without my dyspraxic problems with drawing solid lines getting in the way.

...or it could be a fluke, we'll see how the next one turns out...

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