Finished Roller Babe

As I predicted my next blog post would be the finished coloured women character! I showered Josh in an earlier stage of colouring and he mentioned that it was more the linework that defined the image, than the colouring itself, I understood this as even with a single layer on Photoshop with a lowered opacity shadow looked pretty much the same of the finished result,

Paint Tool SAI

 After this stage I discussed with Josh how to go about achieving the painted style I wanted from the picture I found and he suggested "Paint Tool Sai" a different painting software which has amazing blending options with brushes where you can pull and push colours into each other with a brush effect, much like the smudge tool in Photoshop however the added brush gives it a seamless look with an easily achieved great outcome
 

I tried with the girl drawing however it was proving difficult but more so confusing using this different software and the outcome wasn't very good so I decided to practice a little with some more old work, (above)

I stopped practicing however due to the essays that needed doing but now they are completed my next blog post should be the completed punk girl drawing hopefully finished by using this Paint Tool SAI

Base Coloured Character

I spent a couple of hours over the last week or so setting up the base colour for this character ready to go in and pick out the detail and definition..

While writing essays..

Since my last blog post I took a break to catch up with other work that needed to be done for the course, this work was the two 750 word essays which have been handed in today, however in the time I have been doing these essays I also decided to produce another character, this time I wanted to delve into realism, all my artwork so far has been characterized creatures and stylized people,

So while researching into artists for my essays I stumbled across this image..

I feel in love with this image imideatly, and it isnpired me to draw a simular character. I wanted to also find out how this was painted and paint my own characters in this way..

So I decided to create a bad ass girl character, and after a couple of hours and moodboarding into clothing for said character I produced this linework :