Thursday, August 05, 2010

Painting Witch Hunter Robin

Witch Hunter Robin was one of the first animes I followed way back then. For some reason, I really liked Robin's character design, so I drew her a few years ago. Since I recently downloaded the trial version of Painter 11, I decided to give coloring another go for laughs and giggles through trial and error. Here's what I have thus far:

Here's the original drawing I did, with the retarded title scrawled on the side. GROSS rofl



Turned it black and white and raped the levels with Photoshop.



I used the outlines as a painting guide in Painter, but I turned it off here. Starting the eye!


Eyes kind of finished. Left side is zoomed in quite a bit, so it's a bit fuzzy. Right views are either at or below 100% zoom. Her face coloring is still everywhere at this point.


Cleaned up a bit in terms of getting hair area cleared, but I still need to erase some more of her residual FACEEE
Turned off the drawing outlines for now, so some of this might not make too much sense. I'm having some issues with the hair, obviously! Of course, it's not close to finished yet, but I've already messed with the left side of her head for quite a bit. And I like painting outside of the lines, so I'll still need to erase that that stuff later on. Her face is still outside of her face! =D



That's about it for now. I have no idea how to get the hair to look better, and my face lighting is still a bit WRONG, but this is still pretty fun nevertheless. I looked at some resources online, which is helping a little bit. I'm a bit happier with my original sketch than the coloring job, but oh well! I've been on a bit of a hiatus in terms of finishing up the hair, but that's because I'm getting slightly discouraged at how awful it's getting. :D. I am also apparently retarded at drawing curves with a mouse as well! That doesn't leave any room for excuses as to why I haven't erased the stuff to the right of her chin, however.....

To do:
-Clean up stuff outside of the lines, which is actually a lot!
-Fix hair
-Finish up neck and collar
-Final touchups
-Decide what to do with the outlines. They seem to work better on the face than they do in the hair with the coloring, but I dunno.

WE SHALL SEE WHERE THIS ENDS UP....if i ever finish it O.o
XD WOOT

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