Filler Post

Still haven't gotten at the scanner, so I'm going to make a little filler post here to show you all just how hard I fail. xD This is the remnants leftover from my first attempt at digital painting since I was about 14.




My first attempt, done by drawing straight into photoshop with my sadly neglected tablet. Abandoned for obvious reasons.




Hand drawn and inked lineart. Took about 15 minutes, all told. Much nicer. :P I scanned it in black and white, but I'm not entirely happy with how that came out so I think I'm not going to do that next time.




My first attempt at coloring. Here I tried to do a little stuff with the smudge tool, but I didn't really like it. I need to get my tablet working properly so I can try to master actual shading techniques.





And the final version. I kept reading a lot of tutorials while I was trying to color it the first time, and I implemented a lot of new tricks when I restarted. I started trying to do gradient blending, but the only place I got it looking okay was on the chainsaw blade. Nice for metal, stood out strangely everywhere else.



And finally, just for yucks, one of those pictures from when I was 14.





MS Paint, bitches.