Another chance to do some digital coloring.......

Thanks Glenn, I'm always open to critique and guidance from the pros, don't you worry. Taken on board. Here's the spy page inked, which gives it a little more mood I think - lettering and clean up tomorrow night. This is all based on two line page plot descriptions provided by the gent who wrote the original book, "36 Days".

Cheers, Mal

Thought I'd get this posted before I started working on the finished art:

     This will be my opportunity to begin working with the new Artograph A940 LightPad model that I picked up last week.  I had been punting the idea around an awful lot in the last several weeks, and was investigating the options by visiting a pair of local art supply and craft stores.  After seeing the lightbox demonstrated, and carrying out my own experiments with it over the weekend, I've settled on a technique similar to the one used by pro artist Walt Simonson, with a few modifications for enhancing the effect of the light filtering through the pencil art onto a sheet of Bristol board laid on top.

     The finished work should be ready for display on my DeviantART.com page next week.

This is some great work everybody! Carmen I really like your analysis of your work and the different points you make. It makes for a great study. 

Glen, I really like your stuff too. I hadn't seen it before. But it's great to add to the talent pool here. I am interested in breakng into the comics medium so any suggestions would be appreciated.

Keep up the great work everybody.

My Green Lantern Project...

Coming in from this thread...

Ok, so I scrapped the original sketch. The legs just weren't coming out right.

I started over again. This time I made the light of the power ring going into a startburst pattern out toward the Green Lantern Emblem. I plan on showcasing an entourage of GL villains within the frames.

Dale, try adjusting the angle of the starburst beams so that you don't obscure GL's emblem and it doesn't intersect the lantern.  Those are called tangents...uncomfortable "stop" points for the viewer's eye.

Thanks for the feedback Glenn. I'll re-align the starburst so it works more smoothly in the image.

Edit: I was looking for a way to rotate the starburst and it seems that it intersects something important whichever way I twist it. I decided to just reduce the length of the bursts on fours points and bring them in smaller. That way the other four points can still reach out.

Note: You can still see the erasure lines, but these will be filled in as I start to pencil again and then ink it.