AWKWARD ZOMBIE

one time, I drew something, and used more than two colours

honest I did

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvk0flArz3o

So I took a commission from someone a few days ago. They wanted a picture of two of their characters fighting (over a girl who was both of their love interests) on a cliff with a sunset in the background.

One problem, though: one of their so-called 'original' characters was just Nuada from Hellboy with a different name.
What I'm going to do when I finish the piece is credit the company that owns Hellboy for Nuada, since I don't want to get in trouble for copying their character. But in the meantime, I want to show you guys the lineart.

Linked because it's a bit big.

I also want some advice. I'm not very good with lighting, especially lighting from the background (the sun will be somewhere in-between them in the back), so if anyone could give me tips on how to shade both characters I would appreciate that! I'm going to play around with shadows in photoshop, too, which is part of the reason I scanned it in as lineart only.

Bumping because I made a rough sort-of diagram for where I think the shadows should go in the picture. I could really use some pointers for this because shadows have never been my strong point.

Linked again because big.

Unless the figures and the light are in a direct line, I'd recommend expanding the highlights a bit. judging by their positions, I'm guessing that they're supposed to be a bit more around the light, in which case the angles of their torsos indicate that they should have a bit more light splashed onto the front.
But I like how it's turning out, and you did an awesome job everywhere else.

Okay, I'll give that a try. It was really hard to find reference pictures for people standing in a sunset that weren't completely silhouetted, so I kind of had to wing it, haha.

Ohhhh, it's a sunset. Okay. In that case, the shadows are good. I wasn't sure where the light was supposed to be placed. I just realized that you had a post about it on the last page. Sorry.

just about finished if I don't decide to add a background
I really should have thought about that earlier

Agreed, the shading is great. The coffins came out pretty ballin'

Head of The Brothel wrote:one time, I drew something, and used more than two colours

honest I did

[img]yellows+greys[/img]

That's really nice.

Good job.

Dan de Board wrote:G'daisies that looks great. Really like the shading.

Tatzel wrote:Agreed, the shading is great. The coffins came out pretty ballin'

thanks guys, I really appreciate the kind words
I really love working with these markers since they achieve that effect pretty well

Cheers DND

That's pretty dang cool. I've seen stuff start up like that on DA only to descend into a lot of booty patting the proletariats/'tutors'

I'd considered starting up one myself after one particular one died off but never did.

go go gadget BURNING FINGER

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