hjpetersonauthor

May 20, '22

Which software do you use

Art | Comics

I do everything in Procreate, aside from lettering - I do that in clip studio paint. I hate jumping around from program to program, so I just stick with those two.

May 20, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

Redid the beginning of my script, started drawing it - the perspective makes things look really cool, but my God is it exhausting… Also: 10/10 the best cars I’ve ever drawn [image]

May 14, '22

Post the Latest Thing You Drew

Art | Comics

My boy Donnie, with some design adjustments [image]

May 14, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

Designs for Rhys, whose current superhero name is Paladin [image]

May 12, '22

Show me your promo art or panels you're proud of

Art | Comics

So, I've been struggling at adding characters into perspective scenes for awhile, now, and I really haven't added a lot of smaller details in the past, and I decided to try and do both in one drawing, and it actually looks pretty decent, so I'm really proud of it. [image]

May 12, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

Some Donnie art, featuring some tweaks to the design. I ended up trying a more motorcycle helmet-looking design, added a holster for a pistol, and added some armor for his shoulders, with a shoulder insignia that I'm realizing I need to change while I'm looking at it right this second... Also: I nee…

May 10, '22

Mother's Day: Your Character and Their Mother/Mother Figure

Promotions

[image] There's a couple mothers/mother figures in my stories, but I think Betty from "Project: Achilles" is my favorite. She's Alex's aunt, who took him and his older brother Wyatt in after their parents died in a car accident. She was a new widow at the time, and had never been able to have kids…

May 7, '22

Promote Your Comic But Only If You Mention a Disturbing Fact That's Canon in Your World

Promotions

General Fleischer lost his left eye as a young man defending Gisken border towns from Kurzhian raiders. His unit was ambushed in the middle of the night, and he was taken prisoner for a week while the rest of the men with him were killed. The Kurzhians took his eye and sent him back to his fort in r…

May 7, '22

Post ONE random sentence from your latest chapter

Writing | Novels

She kept walking, shoving her doubt deep into the back of her mind: horrible idea or not, it was her only idea. It would have to work.

May 3, '22

Hey! What's the latest thing you've drawn?

Art | Comics

This is a character from my story "Godswater" [image]

May 2, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

[image] Some more character design stuff - probably going to hate myself for the victory curl later...

May 2, '22

Post the Latest Thing You Drew

Art | Comics

Wanted to work on some more perspective/angles/more details, so here's my girl Eza from "Godswater" [image]

May 2, '22

Did you ever overhype your old work?

Questions

Always. I thought I was the best writer ever in middle school. I now apologize to my friends at least once a week for forcing them to read my stuff back then... My writing has improved a lot even just in the past year, to the point where I don't like the beginning of my current story. Like, at all.

Apr 21, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

Initial design for the antagonist for that WW2 rocketman idea. I think I'm going to go for something a little more diesel punk, so I'll be changing a good chunk of this, but I still like how this turned out. [image]

Apr 20, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

Finally back to drawing drawing instead of my graphic design portfolio. I decided that I wanted to hammer out some final details on the uniforms for the Watch in "Godswater" (and work on drawing finer details in general), so here's what will hopefully be the final design for Eza, a character I've be…

Apr 7, '22

Why did Rome Fall? (Wrong Answers Please)

Off Topic

Rome fell because it tripped...

Mar 28, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

Actually doing some pages, today [image]

Mar 28, '22

Post the Latest Thing You Drew

Art | Comics

Character for a WW2 jetpack superhero idea I had awhile back [image]

Mar 28, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

More character design sketching [image]

Mar 26, '22

Questions about hiring a color flatter

Questions

Freelance colorist, here - I'll see if I can't help you out. Cost: Cost is pretty dependent on the artist, as you likely already know, and what it includes is also going to depend on the artist. For me, I charge anywhere from $20/page to $45/page, depending on how soon you need the pages done, ho…

Mar 26, '22

Post WIPs! (Works in progress)

Art | Comics

Donnie from an upcoming project - I've been messing with the design for a couple weeks - so far, this has been my favorite one. [image]

Mar 26, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

Sketch of Donnie for some promo art - decided to try drawing him without a helmet/mask, and tbh, kind of digging it. I think it looks a little cleaner. Still definitely going to keep messing with it, probably until I drive myself absolutely crazy. Also: I think the hand that's messing with the glass…

Mar 25, '22

What was your first ever gaming console?

Off Topic

I had a green gameboy, with the OG pokemon games and a nascar game. That thing was the best

Mar 19, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

So, we had a really funny moment in the DND campaign I'm in, last night, and I've been looking for some good ways to do practice panels before I get down and dirty in a full webcomic, so I started drawing this, last night... the gang has decided that I need to do one for every session now (open for…

Mar 13, '22

Love Character design. Show me yours

Art | Comics

Been working on some designs for an upcoming project - here's Donnie, my main character and the only one I have done, so far. [image][image]

Mar 13, '22

Please draw more than pretty 3/4 headshots!

Art | Comics

Pro tip for y'all that I learned in an animation class that also works with comics: instead of characters just having a conversation with nothing else going on, have them actually doing something while talking. Maybe they're talking over food, or driving. Not only does it help make panels where they…

Mar 13, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

Also: if y'all wouldn't mind giving a quick art opinion: which of these three designs do you like the most? I'm hearing people like the helmet from the second one, but I'm worried it looks more WW1-trench than WW2 rocket man - what do you think? [image]

Mar 13, '22

The Sketch a Day Thread!

Art | Comics

Still working on this one, but working on a color reference sheet for my character Donnie. [image]

Mar 13, '22

Show off illustrations you've made with your comic/novel characters!

Art | Comics

In order: Elise, Ulrick, Marion (who hasn't made her debut quite yet), Eza, and Eza as a child with her father, Generalissimo Mitrius Kurzhak. All are characters from my novel, "Godswater" [image] [image] [image] [image] [image]