Sketch Blog

So I had quite a hectic time with this. I had a 1yr subscription that I imported for retas studio. I tried making this animation in it since I learned it and I found that no matter the program or pencil and paper I still had the one issue that keeps coming up. Export, loss of quality and video editing. After spending days to make just this which I changed over to toonboom studio to complete, I realised that I am going to have to learn to use adobe after effects. And it's been so hard. It's been very overwhelming. Unfortunately I don't have the PC power to use it effectively which means both my PC and Laptop will need an upgrade =___=  Still I am pretty determined to get 2D animation to work for me. I just WISH I had the money to buy toon boom animate or animate pro. But I don't so I'll just have to stick to using multiple programs. At the moment I am using Clip Studio Paint, Adobe After Effects, Toon Boom Studio and Flash. Just makes me glad that I can afford ad...

I LOVE screentoing in Clip Studio Paint! Love everything about it. I have found it easier, cleaner and more accurate. It also doesn't hurt my eyes as much as MangaStudioEX4 did.

So the characters in this work are Salem (The male) and Faith. Yesterday I spent hours, unexpectedly a lot more time than I planned on digitally painting this work in opencanvas. It's not finished yet, I have to experiment more with the bottom left corner. So far so good. I tried out sharpen filter on my painting this time. It definitely gave some unique paint like looks and feeling to it. And it certainly added some much needed depth. My only issue now is to try not to over abuse it and ruing the work but like my first time with overlay, it's going to take time, practise and time to settle down from the excitment over it. Tools Used: Wacom Intuos 5 OpenCanvas 5.5 Regular wacom pen nib, black.

Well I decided to hide away on April Fools day. Almost every site seems to be participating. I have a new webcomic posted on smackjeeves now. Starts out with some action. Visit the webcomic here:  Lost Words The Webcomic Right now I am working on a digital painting that is mostly just for fun and is a bit of a spoiler for early readers. Please do not steal or use without my permission or remove my watermark. I spent hours and hours on the cover art only to screw up the text. But it will do for now. I'll be updating the comic either monthly or several times a month. I mostly want a reasonable update schedule. The first image was drawn and painted in OpenCanvas 5.5 and the bottom image was drawing in Photoshop CS6

This drawing was a colouring and painting experiment in Photoshop CS6. Please repsect my work, these images on this blog belong to me. I used Gradient Map for the first time on the hair and I adore the effects of it. I think I will be using it more often. Pinky by ~ DraconianRain on deviantART

Here are some of my MangaStudio tutorials that I have posted, most on DeviantArt. http://draconianrain.deviantart.com/journal/Manga-Studio-EX-4-Walk-Through-Part-1-305058988 http://draconianrain.deviantart.com/journal/Manga-Studio-Walkthrough-Part-2-3D-305366109 http://draconianrain.deviantart.com/journal/Manga-Studio-Walkthrough-Part-3-Wavy-Text-Text-305375882 http://draconianrain.deviantart.com/journal/Manga-Studio-EX-Tutorial-From-Sketch-to-Finish-321648109 http://draconianrain.deviantart.com/journal/Manga-Studio-Why-Are-my-tones-showing-up-gray-306389127 http://miwasketch.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-13.html Hopefully you'll find these helpful Happy drawing!

So for a while now I've been tossing an idea around in my head and I've decided to just dive in head first and go for it. But first I really should write it. Anyway here's a doodle of one such idea I have for the story. I might post more later. If I got through with the comic I'll post links. Drawn in sai. Also I discovered a nifty line smoothing feature in sai. It's called Stablizer. I turned it on and off throughout drawing this pic. Original characters, Jaide and Arabella. Characters and art belong to me so please respect my work and do not use without my permission. An alternative hair colour picture of Jaide. At first I had navy hair but then I wanted to see him with something blonde like. Then I tried brown and black and they all looked so nice with his skin tone and green eyes I decided that he can just dye his hair in the comic lol. I'm not quite set on Arabella's eyes in front view just yet, she's still in the early stages of desig...