Costume design & choices

Character design, to me, is always interesting. Even if I don't like what I see as the final design, it's always neat to see what designs lead up to the final choice.

Once again, the debate/argument about how vastly female characters' costumes/armours differs from their male counterparts seems to be raging.

Trying my hand at solid-colour shading instead of blending, and a thought on the above topic, below:

Skottie Young fan-colours

After a brief twitter tete-a-tete with Skottie Young [and his permission], I found some art of his online that's both B&W and [naturally] pretty awesome. Very fortunate for me, as I've just started getting into Jeff Smith's Bone series.  Below is, in order, Skottie Young's art, my first coloured rendition, and my second - which is the same, just playing with a fire/fur brush on the rat-creatures.

This was fun to colour. And Jeff Smith's Bone series is a fun read, too. I'm 4 or 5 books in, and you could give these to pre-teens as a run-up to something like the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings novels, if they like fantasy.

More from class

I actually own this comic, which is a little thrill - to me. 'Cause this means I can hold up [once I find it] the published article against what I've gone with and see the differences and all the rest of everything there on the pages.

I have no idea [off the top of my head] who the female characters are..and that bothers me.
Guess I better go look them up!

Fun Colouring

So, the ever-enjoyable Lar de Souza posted this little gem in his Tumblr  -

- and I thought I'd see what I can do with colouring it.

Normally I ask an artist's permission before I'd do something like this, but I know Lar a little bit and he loves art, and people's various takes on it, so I'm fairly certain he'd be okay with this. 

I'm trying to find B&W stuff from Skottie Young, because I love his art style, but either his coloured stuff is already coloured, or his B&W stuff is pretty perfect by itself. He doesn't send out hi-res files [understandable], but at least he's okay'd me to find stuff and go nuts on it.