I did a new profile picture for the gallery exhibition. Since I a grew a goatee I was told i look like a character from a TV show called Breaking Bad. I decided to take a poster of theirs and swap it for me instead.

A finished idea for profile picture.

Here is all four pages of my comic fully complete. I have added the speech bubbles and dialog to them. I personally feel they flow and do have that look I want for my comic. A look that brings each page together through style colour and to be honest the characters looks like who they are from page to page.

The third and forth page with there highlight layers added. I really like page three.

highlights for page one and two. I have used colour to add the highlights instead of a light grey tone. I used black to do the shadows so I thought that a colour highlight would add contrast and depth. I personal feel it has defiantly paid off.

The last page is now shaded. Now they are all finished I can move on to the final colouring stage, highlight or lighting.

Here is my finished image. I have taken my time trying to keep the vibrancy of the piece.I wanted to grab peoples attention and also make them look. The piece has plenty to look at and your eye is lead around the image by the directions i have placed in my markings. I am very happy with this illustration.

The third page now has its shade layer. Doing each page stage by stage has helped me keep an over all style that correlates through out. its staring to have that dark dank look I want.

My second page is now shaded. I have tried to get the muscle features on my villain to stand out, so the reader can tell he's not just big but also toned and defined.

This is the first page with the shade layer added. I have tried not to do to much, just enough to make the forms a little more three dimensional.

The illustration now has its base layer of colour. I've tried to make It vibrant and bright, also stick to only a few colours and the varied tones that lie between them.

The ink has been added over the sketch. I have also included the sketch layer again but highlighted blue. It's just an example of how I ink over an image, a very common and helpful practice.

 

I have added the first layer of colour to all four of my pages. I think the comic is starting to have its own style and feel to eat.

The sketch for a competition called being human.The idea is to create and illustration that depicts the meaning 'being human' in anyway. I have gone with the idea of two sides to everything. good, bad, war, peace, rich, poor, death and life. Theres actually a lot more in the image, but I want people to look and figure it out. It has been sketched using pencil tool in Manga Studio. Feels a lot more natural than Photoshop.