HOME | DD

Description
A little something I scrapped together last night and during the occasional stolen moment today. Pencil under ink on standard sketchbook paper, dropped into PS7 where I added the tone and then the loose highlights. I want to throw a really simple color version together later tonight, because I'm lately of the opinion (actually, not that lately... this has been bugging me for some time) that my portfolio here has way too much pencil work, and it's beyond time that I began properly playing with color.

The recent HTF project left me with a real appreciation for the effects of low saturation and how colors can affect the areas around them, espescially pure greys picking up the tone from surrounding colors to become warm or cool. This particular color has a saturation point at about 15 (Hue at about 50, I think, Value of -25), and I kinda dig it's subtlety.

Or maybe that's just me.

On the character: Half-Elven (gotta be half-elven, buxom as she be) assassin-thief type, clinging to a stalk of bamboo with her toes while preparing to draw that long-ass, curved needle of a sword she's got strapped across her back.. No more backstory than that, I'm afraid... feel free to dream up one of your own. Just don't go nabbing the image for your D&D game without asking, first. I'm pretty good about these things when asked.

Longtime watchers probably recognize some of the costume elements from previous designs. I've reused that harness running across, around and under her breasts at least a half-dozen times now, and it's probably about time I start thinking up something new in that department. I ripped her pants partly from the Capcom design for Ibuki, and the hat is something I've used before as well. The sword is very Amano, think "D", and the armor is a mishmash of stuff from Berserk, Artesia, and the real designs of Germanic armor from about 400 years ago or so.

Soooooo... not a lot of originality, I must confess. >_<

Description
A little something I scrapped together last night and during the occasional stolen moment today. Pencil under ink on standard sketchbook paper, dropped into PS7 where I added the tone and then the loose highlights. I want to throw a really simple color version together later tonight, because I'm lately of the opinion (actually, not that lately... this has been bugging me for some time) that my portfolio here has way too much pencil work, and it's beyond time that I began properly playing with color.

The recent HTF project left me with a real appreciation for the effects of low saturation and how colors can affect the areas around them, espescially pure greys picking up the tone from surrounding colors to become warm or cool. This particular color has a saturation point at about 15 (Hue at about 50, I think, Value of -25), and I kinda dig it's subtlety.

Or maybe that's just me.

On the character: Half-Elven (gotta be half-elven, buxom as she be) assassin-thief type, clinging to a stalk of bamboo with her toes while preparing to draw that long-ass, curved needle of a sword she's got strapped across her back.. No more backstory than that, I'm afraid... feel free to dream up one of your own. Just don't go nabbing the image for your D&D game without asking, first. I'm pretty good about these things when asked.

Longtime watchers probably recognize some of the costume elements from previous designs. I've reused that harness running across, around and under her breasts at least a half-dozen times now, and it's probably about time I start thinking up something new in that department. I ripped her pants partly from the Capcom design for Ibuki, and the hat is something I've used before as well. The sword is very Amano, think "D", and the armor is a mishmash of stuff from Berserk, Artesia, and the real designs of Germanic armor from about 400 years ago or so.

Soooooo... not a lot of originality, I must confess. >_<