Another commission for Kafelnikov from DeviantArt! His character, Hal, is having a serious cliffhanger moment by the sea. I was going to draw him standing on jagged rocks in a crashing surf, go totally Manga with the commission, but that wouldn't have been feasible with Hal on that crutch, or faithful to the chapter. So I decided to go conventional and stick with the story. Lack of a crashing surf aside, I'm quite pleased with how the ocean came out here. It took many, many re-dos, and it's nowhere close to perfect, but considering it's my best-yet stab at digital painting, I'll take it.
Original art drawn on 11x14" sheet of bristol, inked with Winsor & Newton Series 7 #2 sable brush, colored in Adobe Photoshop CS5.
COMMISSION: The Wayward Astronomer Ch5
Another commission for Kafelnikov from DeviantArt! His character, Hal, is having a serious cliffhanger moment by the sea. I was going to draw him standing on jagged rocks in a crashing surf, go totally Manga with the commission, but that wouldn't have been feasible with Hal on that crutch, or faithful to the chapter. So I decided to go conventional and stick with the story. Lack of a crashing surf aside, I'm quite pleased with how the ocean came out here. It took many, many re-dos, and it's nowhere close to perfect, but considering it's my best-yet stab at digital painting, I'll take it.
Original art drawn on 11x14" sheet of bristol, inked with Winsor & Newton Series 7 #2 sable brush, colored in Adobe Photoshop CS5.