Can I help?

[Sangel]

Even at this early stage, that is one extremely menacing troll.

[eriugena]

I've added some light... I'm not too proud of the result....

[kitty]

he's getting better all the time!

two things to take into consideration:

* listen to spaceinvaders advise: cloured outlines will make him much easier to "read"
* i believe what appear strange is your rendering of the material - he is supposed to be made of stone, but appears like plastic or something like that. i think your highlights are too glossy. have a look at this tutorial: http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm and especially this picture:

[ukognos]

I like it
but the club should be brown like wood or am i wrong?

[Jetrel]

True - I tend to decide colours for the flats when i'm inking. But i would say personally that this is a different, rather than better or worse, technique.

But then, I don't hold a candle to either of you, so...

I think this one is one Jetryl may have to clear up.

Your comments in this thread have been a little taxing on the patience, because it's assumed that the people involved know what they're doing. I don't want to shoo you out the door though, because although you're not necessarily being helpful here, you are learning a good bit, I hope. If you're not, then listen more closely.


At the stage of inking, alone, people generally don't color their inks. Some people will choose to start with a non-black color, like a dark brown, but it's really immaterial, since if you're challenging yourself at all, you're gonna need to change something later. It's not just going to spring from your mind, perfectly formed.

You are correct that after the coloring is laid down, you generally want to color the inks (at least, when it's black ink on a black background), and eriugena's coloring job posted here illustrates why - for exactly the reason you stated.

[thespaceinvader]

Noted. Apologies.

[eriugena]

My HD of MAC at home blow up!
I'm reistalling the software... Hope in the next days to be back online and operative!

[anakayub]

I hope that you've got a backup of all of your work; my condolences to you.

[eriugena]

Yes! I was luky! I use an external HD where i've save most of my work
But i have some lost...

[Sangel]

Yes! I was luky! I use an external HD where i've save most of my work
But i have some lost...

I'm glad to hear that you salvaged most of your work.

How many Wesnoth artists have had major hard drive malfunctions now? There must be some kind of curse...

[Jetrel]

Yes! I was luky! I use an external HD where i've save most of my work
But i have some lost...

I'm glad to hear that you salvaged most of your work.

Yeah. I feel for you.

How many Wesnoth artists have had major hard drive malfunctions now? There must be some kind of curse...

I'm quite happy to say that mine's backed up by time machine, now. And on the safe side of an APC "Uninterruptible Power Supply", with a wireless connection serving up the network (meaning the only hardline is power going into the UPS.

I could get more ridiculous with stuff, but this should be reasonable insurance against doom. I've had one catastrophic HD failure back in high school, and though I wouldn't say it left me paranoid, I certainly wasn't oblivious and worry-free after the fact.

Time machine freaking rocks because I don't have to pay any attention to it. I just plugged in the drive, said "backup all my stuff to this", and it automagically does. I don't ever have to think about it. I'd say that it's "convenient", but honestly, anything less convenient is completely unacceptable, because (statistically speaking) no one would ever use it.

[anakayub]

For us fussy Mac users, a "silent" backup system is very important.

I've had a system restore twice now from Time Machine, and countless revision restores from files I regretted editing.

Lesson: Never forget your backups!