Inkwurk II - In Living Colour

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It has been yet another productive day of inking Miss Kinash's wonderful sketches. Today I woke up at a decent hour, began an inking project, finished the one to the right, and was also added to the link list by Toxiferous Designs. A link to the blog will henceforth be located to the left, in the blogroll. Click it, you know you want to.

After inking the first sketch of Olivia, I recalled that I had started inking this some months ago and had not finished it for some reason. This is because I did not have the organizational skills I have nowadays. Against all logic and reason, I had everything on one layer. This was before I realized that having fills on an individual layer was a lot easier and better looking than having adjusted strokes lurking just below the surface.

As for the question of Olivia's colour theme, Miss Kinash mentioned that she has "imagined her in sages and oranges a couple times." With this in mind I stuck with the dark blue linework, and went with a light brown with red-orange trim. This is because Olivia is in a more 'conservative' outfit than her usual flapper fare, so I imagine that when she is planning on going out, her clothing brightens up substantially.
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Inkwurk

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After getting all that practice in with my digital portraits, or "iDents" as my mom calls them, I tried inking one of Miss Kinash's sketches. I think it turned out pretty well, but final judgment is reserved for Briana. I did not colour in the clothing like I usually do because I am not sure what Olivia's colour theme is, or if she even has one.

I played around a bit with special strokes laid along paths, to try and recreate the long beaded necklaces without having to resort to individually "stringing" circles onto a path. I think I may be able to eventually create a stroke that can go from small to large circles, kind of like how I sometimes create textures, but I have not figured it out yet.

Either way, I have been collecting up sketches that have to do with the comic project for a while now, and am going to digitally ink and compile them into character sheets or something of the like.
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Graduation

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The former underclassmen are graduating today as seniors, having somehow overcome all the hurdles NCA could throw at them. Some of the alumni are traveling out to where the ceremony is being held to see off our friends before they depart for their various home states. Even Steve is flying up from Arizona for the last time, due to this class being the last class he was familiar with.

Due to this I felt all nostalgic and have decided to post a close-up of a skateboard engraving from around the time I graduated last September.
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