Had been planning to do a Spidersona(my own spider character design influenced by the Spider-Verse movies) since the first Spider-Verse movie in 2018, but I'm not a quickety-quick artist to crank out trending fan art stuffs...so now the second movie has dropped(I saw it this past weekend) and it lit a fire under me- especially since other creators are showing their spidersona art again, or creating their first pieces; so here I am finally putting my doodles together that I've been designing over the past 5 years...
Doing it on my iPad in CSP.
Rough inking and colouring done on image #24 for my graphic webnovel, Finding Daecon's Way. I've already started adding the textures to the floor. As I add textures, shading, and lighting I refine the inking. I've got to make the dude with the blue hair look older, for one thing. He small, but he is an adult and is actually married to the ginger dude. His hair is naturally blue - he is a shapeshifter, and his bird form is a blue jay.
Oh, and the cat? That cat knows things...
Finished image will be posted here later today or tomorrow, depending on my ambition and ADHD status. It will be mid-to-late July before it ends up in the series though, as I've got a six week buffer and am working on week 7 with this one.
It has some details I need to fix, but I'm going to share the finished version. Aki from my novel Alpha Longing
Just started this one. Image for chapter 25 of my webnovel, Finding Daecon's Way. Still lots of work to do to it, right now I'm just setting the general layout and making a plan.
Oh, and that wolf? That is no ordinary wolf, nor is he a werewolf. In the last image (posted above) he was a house cat. He is a shapeshifter (the two humans in the pic are as well).
Some progress on this image. It's been a bad week: Between thunderstorms causing power outages and my elderly mother first falling ill, then actually falling and breaking her nose (she's 80) I haven't been able to dedicate the time that I wanted to this drawing. Still, a little progress is better than none. Got the rough inking done, the background laid out, and some preliminary colouring. Most of my refinements are made during the final colouring stage, so this image will look significantly different when finished:
Finished the image that I started above. See that house through the window? I spent hours drawing a whole ass house, adding detail such as siding, a copper roof, bricks in the chimney, etc (and in the full size image all of these components are textured). Then I went and covered most of it with the foreground.
Still, I'm glad I got it finished. This was a busy weekend topping off a crazy week and I was afraid I was falling behind.
Some more progress, but as I was doing this screenshot I realized I made a mistake. The injured orange cat in the background is not supposed to be a cat (cheetah, to be precise, I hadn't added the details yet). In the story that character was in human form when he was attacked. Oh well, at least I noticed early in the drawing.
Hoping to get this one finished soon, but had to take my mother's dog to the vet today because he suddenly stopped eating , was having trouble breathing, and could not stand up.
It was not good. They discovered that he had a tumour crowding his heart, preventing it from beating. He would have died within hours. We had to have him euthanized.
If there is anything in the world more distressing than sitting in a vet clinic holding your elderly mother's hand as you watch her husky draw his last breath I don't want to know about it.
Finished! I replaced the injured cheetah with an injured Evander and filled out the rest of the pic. I like how angry the lion looks in this. I also like how you can almost hear the wolf saying "Oh shit..."
Some background: My story is a shapeshifter fantasy, and these are all shapeshifters. The wolf has just attacked the human, and the human's father, in black jaguar form, rushed to defend him. The wolf was in the process of beating the jaguar when the lion attacked.
The injured human is Evander (his animal form is a cheetah, but he was in human form when he was attacked), and Daecon has a crush on him.
The injured jaguar is Leander, Evander's father.
The wolf is Darion, who has just in this scene made his debut in the story. He is Daecon's father, though Daecon does not know this yet.
And the lion is, of course, Daecon. This is his first time shifting into his lion form (he is a very late bloomer and was only able to do so because he was in distress over seeing his friends being attacked).
Some preliminary work on my next image. If you recall the last pic I posted here one of the characters, Evander, has been gravely injured by a wolf (they are all shapeshifters, but he was in human form when he was attacked). The wolf was subsequently attacked by a white lion, who just happens to be my main character named Daecon, and driven off.
This pic is the follow-up. Daecon has reassumed his human form and is now attempting to heal Evander. He is using magic that he didn't even know that he had.
First stage: Sketching:
Second stage: Rough inking on top of the pencil layers
:
...and with the pencil layers hidden
Tomorrow I hope to have the rough colouring done. One nice thing about the crappy weather we're having is that I'm building my buffer!