I really just wanted to mess around with Photoshop filters and effects with this one, but ended up going really minimal with them and using a Warp Transform on the background more than anything else. I promise the next one won’t be so Photoshop-y.
Ink on paper, Colors in Photoshop CS4
-RD
Pokemon is © 2010 Nintendo
Original art is © 2010 Randall Drew
Intense Metapod is Intense! GO METAPOD GO!
Ink on paper
Colors in Photoshop CS4
Effects in Manga Studio 4
-RD
Pokemon is ©2010 Nintendo
Original art is © 2010 Randall Drew
As promised here is my finished Metroid: Other M fan art!
I totally was NOT Planning on coloring this, but after my brush pen died and I wasn’t able to go in and do the heavy black areas that I wanted…I decided to try a new coloring method in Photoshop instead. I simply flatted my colors out, then went in with a super low-opacity brush and messed around with shadows and highlights. I hope you like the results! I certainly do.
You can watch the videos of my coloring broadcast of this over at My JTV Page!
Enjoy kids!
-RD
As noted in my last blog post, during the downtime here at RkdiaComics, I’ve begun a classic Final Fantasy Summer Streaming Series over at my Justin.TV page: Flozax’s Citadel. I do webcasting quite often and as of now the plan is to cast art/comic related work during the noon-3:00pm EST hours and then my FF series at nights after work.
Being a fantasy writer/artist, I’ve grown up with and loved nearly every Final Fantasy game ever produced. However I missed out on the earlier generations of the series…having only played FF IV when on SNES (As the US released II) when a friend let me borrow it in high school. With the 3-D generation, FF VII on Sony Playstation, and later, referring back to the 6 games that came before them, I was often in the dark on many inside jokes or throwbacks.
Now, with the power of emulation and the recent surge of remakes and revivals of the classic, sprite-based Final Fantasy games I have the opportunity to experience them all, I-VI for the first time! Coincidentally, the remakes and re-releases are happening on Nintendo’s modern handheld systems (Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS)…the originals of course were exclusive to Nintendo, until VII when Squaresoft (now Square Enix) decided to gamble on Sony’s Disc-based system. There are also sequels and side-games being introduced and I may attempt them as well as the summer goes on.
So come on by, evenings usually from around 11pm to 2am EST and experience these great fantasy tales with me!
Each Final Fantasy game I play at JTV is going to get a custom banner, featuring a prominent character from that game. Here is the original art for the banner I made above, featuring Yoshitako Amano’s design for the Warrior of Light from the first Final Fantasy. Note that as of this posting I am about to reach the Halfway point in game play of FFI at my Summer Streaming Series.
Tomorrow I’ll have a more-comics related post as I tell you about the work I’m doing on my own Fantasy story, Citadel, and my recent research and writing help techniques.
-RD
My drawing for Wartortle goes right to the heart of War in it’s name-sake as it leads an army of Squirtle to battle! This one was a lot of fun to come up with, and was totally worth the extra effort to draw all those squirtle and then color! Enjoy!
Pentel Pocket Brush on paper, colors in Photoshop CS4.
-RD
Pokemon is © 2010 Nintendo/Pokémon
Original art is © 2010 Randall Drew
In honor of the release of the new 8-bit developed Mega Man 10 for the Wii, here’s a piece of fan art I dug out of my sketchbook. This is the first time I used my new tablet to color, and I was trying several new techniques that Alec Longstreth showed us. Enjoy!
-RD
Mega Man is Copyright Capcom. Artwork is Copyright me.
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