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Hi,

You can see here a drawing I made last night.



I wanted to change the dynamic of the usual pic of the male heroes with the girls falling at their feets.

I'm still unhappy with the inking; it is the second time I use India Ink, and for the first time, I used only a brush, so the results are not really professional.

Some of you can help me: how can you make a nice starfield?

Best,

David

Frog Kid, I can't help you with any art questions but just wanted to say that your sketch is great - it made me laugh. Brainy looks so goofy! It is nice to see the traditional roles reversed also - and suits Andromeda.

Such a hilarious picture makes me think that Laurel is an old Stones fan.

"Under my thumb ..."

I enjoyed it as well. And I think the starfield looks fine.

Here I was about to make a comment on how cool and moody the pic is -- and then I scroll down a bit and see Brainy. I love it!

This drawing came at the perfect time considering what's going on in the book! Seems Brainy's just a very passionate guy...

The expression of the face of B5 is really special. Thanks for sharing this with the group David.

Me too! Only for me, it was a function of the time it took for the image to load (I've a slow connection).

I particularly love Brainy's lovestruck expression -- very nice!

Here is Triad:

And I join the pic who was already posted in the Dawnstar Gallery(thanks to Lightning Lad)...

I love that Dawnstar illustration. Great work!

Sweet pic of Dawnstar ... amazing.

Looks like Laurel is a woman after my own heart, very nice pose, and the look on brainys' face is priceless

I like your Triad pose too, don't think I've ever seen her quite like that before!

But your Dawnstar is breath taking! By far the best bit of fan art I've seen in... well weeks probably - there are a lot of talented artists on this board. And Frog Kid, you are definitely up there with the best of them!

Thank you for taking the time to share this with us.

Thanks, lads and lass! Now I'm blushing!

Frog Kid, these drawings are terrific. That Dawny is just awesome! I'd love to see that in full color. Bet it would make one hell of a poster! Grey is going to go gaga when he sees it (if he hasn't already!)

Very, very nice drawings David. Especially like the Triad one and the fact that all three girls have quite different physiques suited to their characters. And Brainy is fabulous too.

As for the starfield, I presume you did it the way that i did it the first time I drew characters with starfield costumes (Mon and Troia) which is to sort of paint the ink around where you want the stars to go so leaving them white. If so you'll know it's hideously time consuming and doesn't always leave the best results. Now however I have a really secret trick. Shhh, don't tel anyone.... white ink. Simple as that. Didn't occur to me for ages until Steve Sadowski (I think, might have been Phil Jimenez) mentioned it. Basically ink the whole area of the starfield completely black and then when it's dry use a small brush and white ink to add the stars. Suddenly it gets so much easier and you can more stars in without it looking bitty. You can also do what Jinenez often does with Troia's costume which is include things like shooting stars which add a feeling of movement to the costume as well.

Thanks.

For my starfield, I used ink and later painted the star with "gouache", but I found the gouache not clean enough. I never thought of white ink!

I do all my inking digitally in a vector-based drawing program, so it's easy for me to create a fill pattern in Coreldraw by manipulating the values.

I had to figure this out for when the time comes do render Star Boy and the Infinite Man.

Traid is awesome - very 'sub-continent'.

Dawny in space is inspired too...

Really beautiful.

wow

nice pics Frog Kid

i really like that costume you gave Triad

and Dawny rocks too (sigh. wish she had survived the reboot...)

Thanks, guys.

Here is a sketck of Tellus I still need to ink...

(Image deleted because of the inked version seen below)

Very good! I think thats the best fan pic of Tellus I've seen

Thanks, Harbinger. I think I will have to make small change to his chest and back(maybe enlarge it). I'm still not sure. And I know that Quislet will appear on the final image(he was drawn on a different page).

Ooh ... very well done. Makes me wanna tackle Tellus next ... but I got a few ahead of him.