JyonnyNovice - from Novice to Master!

[JyonnyNovice]

Lurch Thanks a lot! I'll get around to checking out your stuff too when I find some time.
Adam Thanks a lot man! I'm glad the improvement is visible! Starting to enjoy doing portraits now, before they were really torturous. Still a long way to go but I can just practice now and improve little by little, I think I have no major errors or gaps in knowledge to fill.


Thought I'd post my process for today's inktober challenge. I bought a lightbox recently and this is first time I've used it for a finished piece.

So I saw these girls playing around doing cartwheels in the park and their silhouettes looked pretty cool so decided to draw something like that. This is the first panel in a kishoutenketsu (4 panel comic without conflict).

First did a load of gesture type drawings to get in the mood / mind and get a feeling for the gymnastics moves. Was looking mostly at line of action, shape and silhouette:



Then a few thumbnails, trying to come up with a story, this is the final one:



Then drawing the rough layout on bigger paper:



Overlay with the lightbox to refine the poses a bit:



Final pencils - although next time I will do another overlay to make sure everything is totally worked out before inking. This time some areas, like the neck of the girl doing the cartwheel, were not properly locked in and it got messy during inking:



Then inking. Really intense! Did the characters with a brush, everything else with crow quill. I could've done more with line weight and overlaps to get the characters to read a bit better but I was scared to mess it up after doing this:





Panel 2 will be coming tomorrow!