A Wizard girl picking a lock.
Totally erased the sack, changed the shadow passing over the big vase/urn.
And these still have to be colored. I've learned my lesson on color.
These will be very pastel and likely as not monochrome.
Lot better without the sack.
These will be very pastel and likely as not monochrome.
Onto color dabbling.
Did the color. Stuck with the idea of just coloring a drawing
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Very cool Ellis. What is that? A poison dagger? Must be for a card game.
Probably something like a card game. Commission from an RPG company. They give me a loose notion and I run with it. No one said poison dagger, just something like a potion. Maybe I should nix the dagger. Is it too odd?
I'd keep the dagger. I'm digging the costume and the hair.
Discovered a favorite size to work. I already liked working on 5 by 8 index cards. Cutting an 1 and a quarter off, making it 5 x 6.25, is the proportion of this work. Putting that rectangle size in the middle of an 8.5 by 11 sheet of bristol quality card stock, perfect for breathing, drawing into and out of the design. And small enough that the detail can't get too precious.
Thanks for the reaction to the dagger Rick.
These are terrific, Ellis. Love the work. Can't wait to see the finishes!
Thanks Ronnie. Going to work on it tonight . Going to make it simple. Colored drawings , not paintings.
Little bit of updates. News so good it's bad? Or vice versa. Seems like that's all my news anymore. Something works, something breaks. I'm sick of Yin and Yang both.
I may get a lot more of that Ms Valyrie work. The commissioner pays just great. I'll be happy to get the work and miserable because of the work. It's nothing I would write myself. And I think that is the crux of what a guy doing comic storytelling ought to strive for. Self niche-ing. Do what you're good at.
The other good news is that guy I work with that had me wanting to have a fight- He got fired. Just too much hostility toward his boss. Right now there is no particular downside. No bigger mental case has replaced him. But you know it's coming.
Now I only see the guy's pluses. He was not a total jerk. And I had already made him my choice as least of evils.
Stan Lee has turned a corner. Obviously feeling his age. I used to see him coming from Hotels around the con, walking like he was about to kick some ass at a board meeting. In his late 80s. I guess you turn 90 and the shut down is actively going on by the minute.
The art director gave me the feedback I live for . "Beautiful" for the wizardess. And "Love it" for the Fighter with potion knife.
I've typoed the K out of Valkyrie three times recently. It's just Valerie when you do that.
Color versions are looking great Ellis.
Stan Lee still looked pretty good to me. I was afraid the video was going to be about him in the hospital or something. What is Stan thinking about while he's surrounded by all these young people fussing over him and these super-hero statues?
Maybe he's thinking, "Oh, these silly young people and their hero worship. Don't they know that the important things in life are good digestion and a full night's sleep?"
Are you still working at the car place Ellis? Avis?
Yes Tom. Still at Avis. My whiteboard has little strokes representing the days left until my first social security payment. I rub a stroke off every day I work. 34 days of work, 9 paydays, 17 weeks need to elapse. Then I'm gone. The moment my bills can be paid by any other means, I start working for myself.
I agree about Stan and all the statue hawkers. He thinks, "this gravy train has to be about tapped out."
Not so! My son just read a novel "by Stan Lee" with two other names on the cover as well. I'm pretty sure Lee's writing wasn't more than a signature on a check, but his name still has a lot of cache and apparently still sells books.
OK, holy crap--I went back to read this and (belatedly) make a comment and I was absolutely SURE this was all by RICK's hand--!!
Elz, these look great! Esp'ly the first one of the dude! Great colors, too. Congrats on getting some new work!!
Maybe it was the color/composition and costume that made me think this was a Schmitz producion...esp'ly the page boy haircut on the dude--it looks so Creeple to me!
Love it.
Maybe because I really tried to just enhance the srawing. Color it vs trying to make it turn a corner into painting. Which changes every edge decision, requires modeling more with color. Lots of stuff I'm rarely up to.
Thanks Marty.
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