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ArtOfRivana — Rogue - WIP
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A teaser for 's request in my TO DO listIt's been awhile since I doodled traditionally and colored it digital style. Got a few tips so I thought I'd try the new techniques I learned in this art.
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Just avoid airbrush pretty much and use hard round brush with varying opacity/flow settings
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oh yes.. that's a good one. I use hard brush almost exclusively except when doing things like adding a haze around lights or sometimes a little bit of blending on skin if it is particularly smooth on the subject. It shows in this latest painting of yours. Nice work!
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Thanks! Yeah I am still having issues with the blending. I'll work more on that one tonight though, just got too excited and posted this piece lol. Now I realize I am still a hardcore Rogue fan lol. I stopped collecting comics a couple of years ago because I got so absorbed in RPing (which is a lot of fun). I actually picked Mina's eyes to be green based from Rogue's eye color ^_^ (lol random trivia)
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Green eyes are great! My heroine for my new graphic novel has them along with her red hair. Gotta love the contracting color combination.
I also used to collect comics but most of mine are from the early 80s. I wish I had the forsight to buy some of those early x-men but I was mostly into the independents like Wendy Pini's Elfquest which I still really enjoy rereading.
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Yeah red hair and green eyes is a really good contrast. Reminds me of Jean Grey actually.
So how's your Graphic Novel doing? I've still yet to work on mine but we got the plot laid out and I am designing the characters. ^^
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Graphic novel is going well, thanks. I'm almost finished with the inking stage and I'll probably start rendering in September. I'm a bit shy about posting any work. I may just wait until I publish it.
Oh.. you are working on a graphic novel too? I'd love to hear about it. You should come to Stumptown Comic Festival here in Portland and we can share a table to sell our books.
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Wow you mean you're done with the pencil and almost done with inking for the entire book. I can't wait! Do you have a publisher or are you going to self-publish it?
Yep, planning on working on one. I got the plot and divided it into chapters. Was wondering if I should put it out as a webcomic first but then maybe someone would be interested in publishing it lol. Right now I am on the stage of designing the characters (You have probably seen them in my gallery -Lynx,Raven,Shade..sound familiar? 
I'd love to share a table at a comic festival with you! But I gotta have a comic first!
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Well, I'm almost done inking the first book which is about 24 pages but there is a "to be continued" at the end. I haven't thought about what I will do for publishing too much. I'll probably self publish this first one and see how it goes.
I've heard of people going the webcomic route and having some success but I think a certain update rate is expected. Since I'm woefully slow I'm not sure I'll be doing it but if you do please let me know how it goes.
Glad to hear you have a plot all set up and organized. I think very good planning at that stage pays off. Have you read Making Comics by Scott McCloud? This has been a really invaluable read for me and I recommend you pick up a copy.
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Ah, are you planning to publish it in color? I heard that's pretty expensive =S. I dunno how many pages my book would have but right now the main plot of the first book is divided in to 11 chapters. I can imagine each chapter is around 10-24 pages. I haven't gone into paneling yet.
Oh I don't have that book I actually got the Idiot's Guide to Creating A Graphic Novel..not that I think I am an idiot lol. I might try to get that one that you mentioned.
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I think I'll publish initially in grayscale then offer it later in color. That is what Wendy Pini did with Elfquest.
Not sure about the Idiot's Guide. I've seen there one on drawing and thought it was pretty good (embarrassing to read in public given the title though, hehe). I suspect Scott's book has a lot of information not covered by the Idiot's guide book though. Your public library might have it so you could page through it there.
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Grayscale sounds good! What I am thinking is post the story as a webcomic and then later on offer it as a compiled graphic novel (gives it time to build audience and stuff). We should become like buddies in these projects and motivate each other lol. I feel like I can never finish it but the images, ideas and story is all over my head and I really want to get it done.
My skills are pretty limited though. I suck at doing landscapes and anatomy/dynamic poses. >_< I think these are the stuff that's stopping me atm.
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Aren't you afraid if you publish it on the web that people won't want to buy the paper version since they already read it?
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Yeah I thought of that too. That's the only drawback of it. But the story is like three full books , thought it wouldn't hurt to put the first book in a webcomic. Also I think if no one wants to publish it or I can't afford to self-publish, then webcomic would be my back up plan.
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seems quite reasonable Mina.
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Haha I see another comic fan. Merci, mon ami!
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Haha I think we got our genders reversed here!
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lol damn right, sugah!
There, I corrected it
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So when ya gonna watch me? 
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I need to ask the same question!
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Wow, from the traditional 90's Xman series! Its kinda funny, I had a dream about her last night. it was weird. She looks great so far!
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Yep! That's exactly where she was inspired from the 90s cartoon -which introduced me to X-Men. I remember making my own X-Men comic back then it was super crappy lol. That cartoon prompted me to start collecting comicbooks with Rogue in them. I used to save all my lunch money for comics
Whoa you dreamed about her last night? lol weird coincidence.
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LOL oh cool! So she was your favorite?
Yeah, I grew up on the 90's cartoons. Xmen, Spiderman, hahaha. I wasn't that big into them but i watched them because my brother was. Rogue was my favorite but her hair really confused me. I thought the white part of her hair was a hat or something for the longest time. Jean was the one person i hated most. I liked Beast, too. His personality anyway. Not the blue face lol
Yah, the dream was rather vague...I cant' remember exactly what happened but something about her going all out of control and insane and junk and then getting her butt kicked by someone o.O'' She was all blue and stuff too. Like...some weird crazy mode changed her skin light blue and her hair white and yellow instead of white and red and...yeah. O_O
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Yeah she's my favorite *points to her username* The 'Rogue' in my username is based from Rogue of the X-Men. lol funny you thought that the white streak in her hair was a hat. I used to be confused too but mostly I couldn't tell if it's supposed to be like a long streak like a skunk's down the back or just the top. I was so obssessed with her before that I also wanted to put a white highlight in my hair. I only went as far as cosplaying her X-Men evolution version. I'd cosplay this version but I got pulled away from the cosplay scene by moving to the US. I used to cosplay with my cousin and my sister.
Oh and I even bought her first appearance comic where she almost defeated the Avengers singlehandedly. It was pretty badass.
I know it's kind of surprising that I am a Rogue fan because I haven't done a lot of drawings of her so far
lol weird dream..it's like she absorbed Nightcrawler's powers or something? Maybe Mystique's and Ms Marvel's? O_o
So did you use to just watch the series or collect comics as well?
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OH LOL Dugh I shoulda noticed that name LOL!
I just can't get used to the new series. Xmen evolution just dosent sit right with me. It's not the ORIGINAL that i grew up with hahaha. Although the rougue in my dream looked more like her evlolution version. Maybe she did absorb someone's power and went all crazy haha. I like the standard rogue better.
Haha, I understand that obssession. I wanted to tie a massive yellow ribbon in my hair just like a character from a childhood favorite anime show LOL. Haha, man, sorry you had to leave your cousin and sister. Musta been fun cosplaying while you could.
Don't all the characters look more badass when they're first introduced? LOL
Nah, I never collected comics or anything. I just watched some of the episodes on saturday-mornings. Aw man, this is bringing me back to all the other shows I used to love. The ORIGINAL power Rangers LMAO!! Even better was Mystic Knights. AND MY LITTLE PONY lmao!!
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lol, believe me I never liked X-Men Evolution but Rogue's costume there was so easy to put together and didn't have time to really err..work on the spandex costumes. Was also pissed cos the spray dye I used didn't work well!
Yep I had a lot of fun cosplaying. I cosplayed Rinoa, Rogue (X-Men Evolution), Lulu fron FFX and Haruko from Slam Dunk.
I do remember watching the original Power Rangers but I prefer the original Japanese versions (not sure if you've heard of them.).
I remember My Little Pony and Rainbow Brite lol. I also used to watch Captain Planet and the old Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! I was so pissed at one time because they were being shown at the same time during Friday nights where I came from!
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LOL i remember Captain Planet! And the ninjua turtles! Oh, fun!! I've never cosplayed before but I wish i could. It sounds like a lot of fun. Haha spandex are awkward unless you have a hot body to show off O.o''
I'm starting to like Storm more. Jubalee annoyed the CRAP out of me.
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Yeah cosplaying is fun and I agree on the spandex. You need to really have a good body to pull it off..unless it's one of those padded ones rofl!
Ugh, yeah Jubilee was pretty annoying in the series. Storm is fine too but she just seems too serious!
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LOL the badded ones are annoying. Yah, storm was boring to me especially when iw as young. Now that i'm older I appreciate her.
I wanna shoot jubalee. And Bandit.
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lol you mean Gambit? He was kind of annoying at first too but I started to like how him and Rogue bicker a lot later on lol.
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Ya, that. He really annoyed me at the beginning. I was convinced he was a badguy.
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Well he kinda is, being a thief and all. He's also got a dark past in the comicbooks where he led Mr Sinister's group to where the Morlocks lived. The Morlocks got slaughtered because of him.
But yeah he's classified as a good guy last time I heard lol
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ah gocha, i see LOL nice new avy!!
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haha thanks. I can't wait for it to finish. I'll update it with the finished version later on lol
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Yah i cant wait too! It'll be great!! I know it!
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Oh pshaw! To me, even your scraps are uber amazing and epic!! Anything you do is really awesome! I have a lot of confidence in you! ^^
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Hehe nah, you deserve it! You're an epic artist!!! Chya!!
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Wow... that is looking pretty bloody good so far.
I love the colouring
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