Thinkin' Lincoln EDIT: couple sketches
Nightlink
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I'll cut the welcoming crap out and just post some arts. 
Fake Abraham Lincoln action movie (whole series located here.
Screamin' Lincoln.
Orson Welles spin off.
Dusty Rhodes is kind of fat.
Kind comments or critiques are appreciated!
Fake Abraham Lincoln action movie (whole series located here.
Screamin' Lincoln.
Orson Welles spin off.
Dusty Rhodes is kind of fat.
Kind comments or critiques are appreciated!
Nightlink: Purveyor of talking cakes, crazy bad-ass presidents, golden age superhero style peanut butter inventors, and the occasional fan art.
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Oooh! Also, in the last picture there is a texture on the left side but nowhere else. I don't know if that was intentional but if not clone stamp that motha around! It doesn't have to be all over, just here and there for consistency.
I do see what you're talking about with the last picture. That's really just a photo of my wall, with that part having a little bit of glare. Now that I look at it again does look like it's only in one spot.
I'll have some new thingies up shortly, but thanks again!
i like lincoln's hat full of weaponry
it's a nice touch
One thing I still need to add is Lincoln's hat's ability to shoot out extra ammo from the top. Or missiles. Or candy corn...
but, his style has it's influences too so eh
But i think you could do something more with the expressions of the faces on the other ones. That 'blah' kinda expression is really overused now and doesn't really express anything about the character. Kinda like how most anime uses the 'one eye closed expression' for female characters. try pushing it a little further, cos your stuff looks really cool. And its funny too.
Rough drawings for a new Lincoln poster, will end up just starting over from scratch:
your inking is keen. you're very detailed. would be interested to see what you could do under that lineart with some painting-styled colouring.
EDIT: Oh and I'm loving the shit out of your Lincoln.
Thanks! My colouring tends to be pretty basic, but from time to time I try my damnedest.
I'd say as long I'm trying to use techniques and not just draw some pointy haired guy in a *insert retro video game character* shirt, I'm on the right side of things. And yeah, I've been milking the Lincoln stuff for all its worth, and will continue to do so.
FYI, the slice of pie in the roller skate next to him in the title panel is his best friend, who only speaks in spanish.... telepathically.
everyone has styles derived from influences
that's just the way things is.
LOVE the Dusty Rhodes poster....are those skittles or jellybeans popping out of his mouth?
Didn't really give it much thought... lets go with skittles.
Not unless I see a ring o_O
Over at the AC Book Title competition thread, I posted a piece I just did for it...it's past the due date, and all, but how do you get the 'spackle' effect...is it just a texture brush or paint spatter effect?
I'm using Photoshop/Illustrator with scanned in pencils.
Well, the Lincoln 9 poster is obviously inked in pen (mixture of microns and fabre castells), but just about everything else is digital.
As far as the texture, do you mean the Dusty Rhodes one? On that I just took a photo of a wall at work, and played around with the settings until it looked right (I think that's just on screen or overlay). The same thing was done of the Lincoln bust shot, just different photos and different effects.
I did look at yours. If you have a digital camera and a textured wall, try that instead of the brushes, since they tend to really repeat the patterns at the same size without much in the way of hiding the look.
It's also neat to group the texture layer to the line art or colour layers alone. That way it just doesn't look like it was laid right on top or right behind.
This looks cool, but the shadows are too saturated. For the most part, shadows need to be (at least eventually), less saturated than the flat color. Add another layer over those shades and drop the saturation of them (not entirely covering what you have), and I think my eyes will burn a little less when looking at Tycho and Gabe.
Another point of interest is that you only used this kind of airbrushing technique to shade. Give some hard edges to really define folds or hard angles and it'll give it a much more three dimensional feel. Your lines are awesome, and you're good at color picking flats, which is why your flat colored stuff looks so sweet.
Suggestions? Since, you know, you guys are cool like that :winky:
The blues are far too saturated.
The picture(s) of the guy are too small.
The patterns in the backgrounds look arbitrary and are distracting.
The title and catchphrase are too small.
...and the orange that only shows up between some letters in the title is unecessary, and decreases the readability of the title.
hopefully that helps some. I like what you have going on so far.
The colours are bright, though they will be faded, spot on about the background pattern though.
Here's an idea of what I'm kind of shooting it to at least resemble (I saved over the file and wasn't able to change the credits)
The photos are junk, just what I could take real quick with my very limited camera. He's actually a beer delivery driver at the restaurant I work at, and I had about 5 minutes to get some photos with a green screen I set up earlier that didn't do dick for me (granted that's not an excuse, bad photos are bad photos).
He seemed responsive to the whole idea, so new photos might happen. Can't promised it, but I at least have Lincoln and talking cakes to fall back on.
If you can get new photos, and you want to keep that shot, work on more dynamic use of the gun.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USUS293US303&um=1&sa=1&q=dirty+harry+poster&btnG=Search+Images&aq=f&oq=
Damn, I didn't even think of Dirty Harry! I'll see about the photos, but if I'm not able to get 'em I'll just abandon it.
Parody of the Give 'Em Hell Malone poster:
You gotta shoot him in the head.
At first I thought it was a weird exstenstion of his beard. But that hat is great.
'Cause I'm a big dummy. I had actually first drawn the shadow on the stovepipe part of the hat on the wrong side, but caught it quick enough. To be fixed in the lineart art phase.
Anything else I can fix? Detailed comic looks don't really come naturally to me, so I'm all ears.
Also, those handguns look really small in his enormous meaty hands. Like, those fingers are going to be stuck in the trigger. I think it might be more badass if they were proportional to his awesome size.