new Nightwing fanart!

[ratcreature]

I finished the picture I've bee working on. The inking isn't very good (it is the first time I've inked anything with a brush in years after all), so to distract you from that *grin* I also decided to try computer coloring for the very first time. It is not as good as I'd like it to be, but I really have to do university stuff during the next days, and I know that if I don't post it as finished I'll continue to fiddle with it all of my time, because that's what has happened all of last week already.

The finished one can be found here (104K).

I've also put the pencils on my site here (100K), so you can decide for yourself whether my newbie efforts in inking and coloring have made things worse (or better).

Comments

[ratcreature]

*beam*

I'm glad to hear that you like the color. I have no general preference for color, but I think it just fits superheroes with their costumes and their aesthetic a lot better than b/w, unless you are a really, really skilled b/w artist, and even then I think comic style art looks much better inked than pencil when they're b/w.

But if you leave inks b/w it is much more apparent what is wrong with the inks... so I like the color one a lot better than the one with just the inks, which is why I haven't posted that stage (i.e. my newbie inks alone). And I also think it's an improvement from the pencils, because it looks more like "superhero style."

The most frustrating thing of it all though was to scan a large original on a too small scanner, the two parts would never really fit together totally, and I even made positioning marks and still I had to fudge to make the two parts fit :/ All other stuff I'm not that good at (yet) was at least still fun. (thankfully the drawing size is intended to be larger than the reproduction size, so a lot of errors aren't that noticeable in the end version).