Justin.

So last night I uploaded the first "completed" picture of Justin I have ever drawn. I finally have his characteristics and personality down. If you don't know, Justin is my one and only current reoccurring character/muse. I first drew him on the Pendako whiteboard and he just kind of jumped out at me and I fell in love. ......that was so cheesy...

Anyways.

I drew the pencil sketch a long time ago and just never got around to coloring it, I was afraid of screwing it up.
I was looking for a tutorial so I could learn how to do it in Photoshop without fucking up the original sketch. I found a few and they all said the same thing. It was as I feared. The Pen Tool. As anyone that has ever used Adobe Photoshop knows, the Pen Tool is an ass hole. Really. But I sucked it up and over the course of a few days working on it in tiny sessions so that I didn't get frustrated I came up with this:
Once I gotten a little practice in, the process became easier and I was able to achieve what I thought were positive results... but I was stupid and because I didn't really think that I would finish, I didn't ink it on a separate layer. *headdesk* I went back over it and carefully erased the exposed pencil lines. I then contemplated a coloring method.
Because I spent so long on the lines I didn't really want to have a stunning coloring job to distract from them. I used my same meathod of color I always do, but I was hesitant to make a second layer and multiply the lines because of what pencil remnants might remain and muddle the quality... but after seeing the results I knew I had to do something... I sort of liked the outcome, but at the same time it looked a little faded and half-assed. So I duplicated the layer and multiplied it anyway and it didn't look bad at all and I was VERY satisfied with the results. I think I may use this method from now on... which means that a ton of the older artwork on my deviantART will be inked and available in full color very soon.

Now I want to talk about Justin a little bit...

I would love to write a comic about him but I just don't really have any ideas for what it should be about. I know he will have a co-star named Gray based on another old drawing of mine... Gray may be Justin's brother, because for some reason I picture them both with blue eyes and silver hair. Justin's age is anywhere from 17 to 24... There really isn't much known about him yet sence he kind of ninja'd into my life.

I REALLY NEED IDEAS!!! If you have any plot ideas for a comic starring Justin and Gray, please e-mail it to me.



Here's a picture of Gray for fun-- I think I may finish him next: