So! Last thing I felt I needed to get done before New Year! This Year’s Daredevil-remake!
So, compared with last year’s, I don’t think my art-skills or style has developed that much, maybe changed or refined the vibe somehow. Like how Daredevil’s face looks slimmer and fitter than last year’s, he looks more muscular. Less halloween-costume, more superhero-suit, looking at how Christopher Reeve’s suit sat on him instead of one of my random shirts in the mirror. So I guess the development 2023-2024 was how I could make it more character-fitting and interesting and references.
So, yellow street lights have changed to the red/blue police-lamps, random rooftop has changed to what could be the top of a church, city background has become bigger, trying to showcase how much area this one character has influence and responsibility over but blending in with the noise of the background.
Random lighted windows now have the shape of braille, hinting at his disability and what makes the character stick out, the texts referring to biblical verses and comic quotes if you want to take the time and translate.
The blue sky is now black with a hint of red, connecting more to his color-scheme and I wanted to think more from his perspective of the world. The heartbeats are less of a game-hub and more of just part of the input of the world around him.
Wanted the billy-clubs a little bit more fluid and over-the-top but maybe too much over the top.
So more probably changed than stayed but if I got the basic idea of Daredevil on top of the roof, this would have come up in my head now instead of what I did in 2021.
So… curious on how I will retake this piece 2025.
Ben Kenobi vs Darth Vader - Clean Versions
May the Revenge of the 5th be with you
Some things I want to get done before New Year are just some re-drawings of stuff I wasn’t happy with.
First was the Chat Noir-post which itself was a redrawing of an older Miraculous Day-post.
This new one is closer to the original and more symmetric. Doesn’t feel as all-over-the-place as V.2 and looks better side-by-side with Ladybug.
Do you have any advice on making art in Photoshop?
If you're drawing characters, this site here is your best friend: https://app.justsketch.me/
Lock layers whenever you're done on it, harder to draw on the wrong one without having to unlock them first
(Also save back-up-layers if you're planning to change something in case it doesn't end up as you want, heck, save back-up-files if you have a real crazy idea that can either make or break your day)
Use the Navigator found in the Windows-tap, allows you to still see the whole canvas while zoomed in
Explore, mess with the settings. Press every button you can find under Filter, there's a lot of fun stuff to use there.
Be patient, let the project take the time it needs, can be hours, can be days.
If you're new to drawing digitally, I'm okay with you tracing. Just to help you land in your new artstyle and tools. As long as you pay attention to what you're tracing and can learn from it.
#hogwartslegacy #hufflepuff #photoshop #photoshopartist #digitalart #fanart (på/i Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqItaTrs26r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Redrawing my old art of Newt 💛
Is that has been fun. It has been toxic and annoying as well. And I know OW2 will come out tomorrow but still! Thanks to my unnamed but I promise real and existing friend for picking the selection of heroes . #overwatch #overwatchfanart #fanart #roadhog #cassidy #colecassidy #cassidyoverwatch #lucio #lúcio #lúciooverwatch #soldier76 #ana #anaamari #anaoverwatch #blizzard #blizzardentertainment (på/i Watchpoint: Gibraltar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjP9XHbsPqg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
If I had a nickle for every time I got an idea for a post and then see a comic cover doing the exact same and forcing me to scrap it,
I would have multiple nickles. Not many but proud of myself it happened more then once. And I don't even have any real artistic education!
The Moon Dance - Remake 24-08-22 v 22-08-22
The idea started as an interest 3 years ago to an Alex Ross-inspired piece, all these characters posing for the camera in front of a blank background. And it was something I worked on on and off again and rebooted as many times til I learned the lack of motivation was lack of originality. So I redrew the idea. 85 years of history, 85 characters, in one piece. Comic book-events and milestones. The literal birth of the universe till today. Starting of meta with a mix of Celestials and Galactus, present at the birth of the current universe, alongside the World War II-veterans starting the company. Paying respect to all parts of the evolution; Nick Fury’s war-stories, Hellcat’s romantic adventures, Groot’s Sci-Fi-Horror, Fantastic Four’s rebirth of the Superhero-comic. In the centre, we have what I consider the big three of Marvel’s early days. The man out of time, Captain America connecting the past to the modern day. The first family, Fantastic Four showing a new kind of storytelling and the first solo teenage-superhero and poster-boy Spider-Man leading the future. And around them, everything. The wasteness of the Marvel Universe has space for multiple religions, Asgardian, Greece, Jewish and Egyptian. All kinds of superheroes, from the self-made suits of armors, spies and soldiers, to the science-experiments gone wrong and the naturally gifted children of the atom. We have representatives of the mechanical as well as the mystic arts, the Kree-Skrull-wars, the Inhumans, the afterlives.
And references. The tears of an android, Spidey’s strength to fight when there seems to be no chance, Days of Future Past that would forever haunt them thereafter, the Death of Captain Marvel and Night Gwen Stacy Died changing comics forever. The Infinity Gauntlet inspiring the cinematic universe, House of M increasing the mutant-population and lastly Secret Wars bringing a new generation of young heroes forth and centre.
A link to the drawing in its full glory and true size: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VHVlvQRKp3Y83xgOgjfrJBG_FviXpgmV/view?usp=sharing