I decided to toss an extra 10 minutes into the digital presentation of my images and add some quick highlights to pop the sketch out. Between the textures, tints, blurs, erasing, cutouts, and screened highlights, I've got a fun little system down for making my pencils look nice. (You can see raw pencils below) Might be possible tutorial material, as the system is incredibly easy to memorize and is just a bunch of button pressing and time spent using the eraser tool. Its mind numbing, but really makes sketches look nice, especially if said sketches are being used for a portfolio of some sort.

Layout: While the drawing is okay, it sorta ran off the page in a very very awkward manner... after I scanned it in I realized the layout and composition on this are the purest of crap, even if the drawings are okay.


If I ever decide to color my crap, the cunning plan is to make it look like a widescreen image... with the whole black bar on the top and bottom to complete the cheapness.


I'm kinda sorta terrible about backgrounds, which is silly, because all I really need to do is treat the background with the same amount of attention and time spent on the characters... I just... never do that. And I should.