I used to sketch detailed work a lot more frequently and quickly than I do today. I’ve strayed somewhat from that style in favor of pursuing something simpler and more cartoony. Not wanting to let my skills atrophy, and wanting to recover what has atrophied, I chose to use this sub-project as practice.
The Netherbane Chronicles will be (if ever actually executed), a non-regular comic posted to my World of Warcraft guild site. I bounce between wanting to sketch it all or wanting to do it using Photoshopped screen-captures of in-game models. We’ll see how it all turns out eventually, methinks. Below is an incomplete sketch of the first page. The roughs are really rough. The darker lines are the in-progress portion.
Yeah, I still have a lot of recovery to go…
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Don’t get me wrong when I say this. I love all of your art work. I’ve seen very few you’ve done like this. The use of shading in black and white is excellent. I feel with only a little more work i’d be looking at a black and white photograph. Honestly, I love it. It speaks to me as how Tharion sees the world and therefore…how we see him. In shades of grey. Even in this sketch, I feel you have captured more of Tharion than I think you ever have before. As someone viewing… I want to know him. (and I already know him and you!) Excellent. I would love see a piece in non-comic form in this style. A picture of Tharion Greyseer; that captures both the calm and emotions… I think I just rambled. But I can’t say enough how much this style suits Tharion.
I have to agree with Arcania. The whole idea of the monochromatic use reveals the “shades of grey” of the Greyseer.
Such clean artwork…. how do you do it! Thats one of my biggest weaknesses, hehe. But so far it looks real good, I love how you have your panels already set up and have light sketches already in place and such, cant wait for the end result.
I think you should sketch it all, would be great practice!
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