Robin Goodfellow

[Teuthida]

http://www.deviantart.com/view/16156136/

Where the name hobgoblin comes from. Actually colored something without celshading.

[Typhoid]

I like it.



He looks Italian for some reason.


*shrug*

[GameMaster]

Your talent really shines in the faces.

I'd really love to see pictures of the development process you went though to make this picture.

[Crash]

awesome art.. really is... why dont you make a GT comic strip?

GM: nice sig

[MuGen]

the italian feel is from the slick back hair.

nice work.

[Teuthida]

Originally Posted by Crash

awesome art.. really is... why dont you make a GT comic strip?

That's an idea. A while ago I did a sprite comic for GT where Mega Man and Bass would comment on screenshots. http://www.n-insanity.com wanted me to do comics for them but they paired me up with a "writer" who I didn't find funny at all so I didn't do it.

[MuGen]

thats a great idea... we'll show penny arcade whose boss

[The Germanator]

Dan, you should just do daily comics for http://www.spintonic.net

[Crash]

Originally Posted by Danchastu

That's an idea. A while ago I did a sprite comic for GT where Mega Man and Bass would comment on screenshots. http://www.n-insanity.com wanted me to do comics for them but they paired me up with a "writer" who I didn't find funny at all so I didn't do it.

we need to do it now, seriously...for specific reasons I can't reveal right now... DO IT DAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Teuthida]

Working on a Mr. Driller pic that might be able to be worked into a comic. You do know he has psychological problems...stressful job drilling and all.


And Germ...the comics on your site scare me...in a good way...i'll do one once i think of something.


Edited Robin Goodfellow with more dramatic lighting. Is it too dark now?

[Vampyr]

That is really really awesome, Dan. And isn't Robin Goodfellow also The Puck from Shakespear's a Midsummer Night's Dream? I'm pretty sure he is...that being my favorite play ever and The Puck being my favorite shakespear character. I think I remember reading this big background story about how Shakespear used the mythology surrounding Robin Goodfellow to make The Puck.

And I like both versions...the darker one sets a better mood for the character though, in my opinion.

I have a question: What do you use to draw your pictures befor scanning them? I'm guessing a pen, but what kind of pen? And what kind of paper? Is it the normal white computer paper, or do you use a thicker kind?

Edit: And I think a GT comic strip is briliant.

[Teuthida]

Yup, Puck is a Robin Goodfellow.



I sadly haven't read A Midsummer's Night Dream but I did read up on Puck's history.

I have to do a series of four related pictures for my digital coloring class so think I'm gonna do three more pics of mythology creatures modernized.

I use Bristol paper or any other thick paper made for ink. It's white, smooth, and heavy...just how I like my women... I use Micron pens. Mostly the size 01 ones which has a .25 mm line width. So even the really think lines are done with the small pen.

[Vampyr]

Thanks for the help, Dan. +rep for your detailed answer.

More questions:
Once you upload it to photoshop, is the only thing you do color it and maybe add some lighting? I remember you saying once that you use the pen tool...but for what? I don't really understand it's purpose.

[Teuthida]

Robin Goodfellow is the first pic I've done without the pen tool. (Well just realized I used it for the highlights on the watch.) Usually I scan the lineart and then use the pen tool for all the colors including the shadows which take on solid shapes giving it a celshaded look.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/15639599/

^ That pic is entirely done with the pen tool. I didn't even ink it before I scanned. Was just a pencil sketch. Took me 4 months of on and off coloring to finish it. Doing line art with the pen tool was painful. Basically with the pen tool I outside each shape I want. I do it very carefully to make the shapes appear round. So imagine each line is an shape that I outlined. Trying to kept the lines even and round was hell. Was scanned in at 720 dpi and I zoom in at 400% for the lines. So when I was working on it, the guy's eyebrow would have taken up my entire screen. If I had a wacom tablet (like that bastard Gabe at Penny-Arcade has) would have been a sinch. Had well over 100 layers.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/9538067/ had 425 layers with a width of over 8000 pixels and a size of over a gig if I remember correctly it making it the biggest piece I've worked on.

[Vampyr]

So how did you color Robin Goodfellow?

And how are all the lines so smooth and pretty? I would think that the ink would bleed out a little bit.