Twice (thrice) the fun

This is of my friend Jamie. Been a long time since I last drew her. I'd been meaning to but never got around to it till this weekend when I drew these. It was supposed to be part of a mini comic, there are two more unfinished drawings of her being chloro'd and then tied, but I didnt really like how they look and i completely lack composition skills. Dont let me decorate your house.
Sketched in photoshop, then I used painter to retrace the lineart, then back to photoshop to color. Dunno why I didnt color it with Painter, i love that program. I'm more comfortable with photoshop these days though and it's been so long since I used painter that I'd hate to have to relearn it, but thats on my list of things to do.
These were really fun to color, especially the unbound picture. There are some errors but nothing that drives me crazy. The only thing i might gripe about is that I made her too tall. She's a little thing but since i didn't bother to use a scale I jut have to hope thats implied. I never did get in the habbit of using the head's technique to draw (you know, like your standard superhero male is like 7-8 heads tall etc.)
Anyway enjoy :)

Sometimes all is right in the world.

What a difference a few days makes. This is obviously a follow up to my last drawing. Gemma liked that one so much she begged me to do another with the roles switched. I hadn't intended to do it so soon. Really I was just sketching around in photoshop and just kept working on one in particular and then huzzah, finishsed pic. Well it wasn't quite that simple but you get the idea.

Obviously things look a little different from last time around. The biggest difference is that I kept the lineart. Lately i'll just sketch out something and paint over it since the lines are usually too messy. This time I spent awhile cleaning them up so that I could use them. It was something I didn't orginally plan on doing but I went with it.

*EDIT* Can't beleive I forgot another rather important bit of info. Unlike last time i actually used a photo reference right from the get go

The coloring is different too. Not much of a change in how i went about doing it, i really just tried to go faster and not be as conservative with the colors. I have a bad habbit of working with rather saturated colors and then going back to mess with the contrast and such once the pic is complete. I didn't really have to do that this time around and im happy for that.

A small part of me wants to go and paint this without the lineart to see if it will look as nice... Hmmm...

The expressions are switched from the previous picture. I did intend that for the sketch but not in the final peice I had in mind.

I like that it turned out that way though. What little back story there is (as in what i make up while coloring) had Gemma escaping from the duct tape and turning on her roommate. There wasnt enough tape left for a gag so an old rag was used. The kicker is that Gemma took the own stuffing from her mouth and shooved it right into her roomie's mouth. You cant see it because the knotted rag blocks it ^_^

Here is another picture of Gemma and her roommate. She suggested some tickling which im a fan of so I didn't say no.

I wish I could say this was a fun one to do but it wasn't in the least. It took me the better part of a day just to get a sketch that I liked (partly because im just a slow drawer. I should work on that) and then the actualy painting was a pain.
This is the first color work i've done in awhile and I had forgotten quite a bit about how to do it. I think there is a certain blandness to the picture. Just haven't learned how to apply the techniques concerning details that I see other artists doing. Part of that may be the need for a larger tablet but damn those things are pricey.

I did apply some textures just to see how it would go and im satisfied with the results though i'll certainly need some practice. But at least this one is done.

Starting a new blog today that im hoping will give me a chance to go a bit more in depth on some of the art I do. I have a tendency to talk a lot but I'm a bit ashamed to say that I still have no idea how to create a website so I can't go that route.

This is my most recent drawing here. I did it for my friend Gemma and it is of her (the blonde) and her roommate. For the most part she left me free to draw whatever I wished but there were certain things she had hoped I would focus on, one of those being barefeet. She's one of those girls who likes to do a lot of fighting and she likes to get sweaty.
I forgot if there was a story behind this. Usually i just start doodling and see where things go (Which is really not a good way to do things no matter what it is you're doing, be it drawing or music or writing. You'll find much, much more success the more you plan ahead).

I do know that the background was a last minute thing. I rarely draw backgrounds and taken them into account in the initial sketching even less. With this drawing I just felt that a white or bland background wasn't enough. So i really just took a large brush (that would be a photoshop brush :) ) and started going to town with the intent of covering as much of the background as I could.

All-in-all I was very happy with how this turned out and I suppose if I wanted to I could go back and fix those glaring changes that still haunt me.