Process work OH BOY

Who wants to see scribbly, messy process stuff? Woooooooh!

I wanted to draw Jan and his fiance dancing. My first attempt was stiff and boring and I just could not get there arms to work out.

Second try was better. What I really wanted to get was an upshot though, and this drawing was really small anyway, so I tried again. Did I ever get the angle I wanted? No. I went ahead and coloured the third drawing anyway.

This is what it looks like with just the cell shaded layer. I never intended to *just* do cell shading, so when I cleaned up the drawing I used thin lines without a lot of variation. I personally don't like soft/painted colouring with thick, bold black lines.

Just the "painted" shading.

The two together in the final image. I... wasn't going to keep that background but decided to just because I have nothing better to put there.

I did the painted/cell combination before, but didn't save the file properly (HRRRRRNG TRAGEDY!), so I wanted to try it again with this drawing. I feel the cell shading helps bump up the contrast while the painterly shading makes it more interesting and gives it more life. I never liked the way I did cell shading much because it always came out so flat and boring.

So, uh, there we are!

Animals? Animals!

In preparation for developing some new characters for Professor Alpaca to interact with, I've been practicing drawing animals! So far I've looked at pigs, goats, and donkeys, and have early designs for the pig and goat characters. Here is the Professor beside two of his pupils:

They are supposed to be... in... scale... to one another (what am I trying to saaaaaay). I'm not sure how big goats/pigs/alpacas are compared to each another, so more research is needed there. The unnamed goat and pig are likely to change a bit. Also Professor Alpaca is getting more fluff on his face, which almost looks like sideburns. Heeee.

Buddy Colours

Oh hey look I AM colouring this, but I'm just like...whaaaat. Maybe find a way to make those background hills more interesting without making them too busy. Also plan on cropping it a little bit, and maybe more shading on the bird. Other than the cast shadow currently on him. Yes, thats a cast shadow.

Big, big Boar

Well if BLOGGER hadn't been so SILLY yesterday, this might have gone up on time. *hrumph*

Anyway, here Annie, have a messy sketch for your birthday!

To colour eventually?

Do you ever have tonnes of stuff to say in a post, then go to post, and forget everything?

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I'll probably add more background stuff in photoshop.