by Icecypher » Tue Feb 17, '15, 3:47 am
Thanks, everyone!
My friend seems better now. I will insist on the sharing his thoughts with someone close to him that he trusts. Carrying things all by oneself may have undesirable effects.
And thanks for liking the pic.
I think my own bias is evident in other pics I have uploaded (and my user profile pic).
BTW, let me say it here: I HATE chirpers! My second PS fan art was going to be the first hero from PS III, drawn in Rumiko Takahashi style (or the best I could emulate it), strangling one of those pests! I remember starting the game and having tons of the birds attacking me! They did 1 HP of damage, but there were so many of them, and I could not kill them quickly enough... I never finished inking it, but that is still a pic I want to finish someday. Now, PSP and PSP 2 made me like rappies a little more. But I am playing PS Nova (and loving it; dunno if it is the graphical presentation, but it does feel more centered in the story and characters than PSP did), and I love (to kill) those birds here! Especially since I want to create a costume that needs their rare drops (not droppings, thanksfully). But still hate chirpers!
And I love the crosshatching, as well. And it is mandatory in this case. I am able to do solid colors with ballpoint pens since I was young, but I mostly ever did it with black ink. I discovered colors get sometimes much darker when doing it. Like yellow. I tried solid yellow in the previous pic, and it was looking more brown or gold when I ended. So leaving all this white space helps, and crosshatching looks better than just random white space. The same goes for the orange ink I have to use as "flesh" color. If I overdo it, they will all look like Marvel Comics' Adam Warlock (or Ben Grimm).
Edit:I have to be careful when hunting rappies in Nova. I keep yelling "chocobo" when one appears. This would be good if I did it on purpose, but I don't. They just look so much like the chocobo design from Chocobo Racing or Chocobo Tales...
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