This is a cover I did for Aspen Comics' Fathom book...I'm not sure what issue its for but it should be out in the next month or so I think. This is actually the first piece of finished comic artwork I've done completely digitally. Drawn on a Cintiq, then colored mostly on my crappy Graphire(I'm saving up for a Cintiq 24HD). Hope you like!
I love the musculature her stomach! I mean that sounds totally random, but it's really well done. I can't draw abs at all without them looking really odd hahah.
Thank you! Its a fine line to walk when drawing female anatomy I think, because if you go too defined it can look weird, like you said. This piece was much easier in that regard, because I colored it myself and could choose how the shadows describe the musculature and not just hope that the colorist understood what I wanted from the line art. Thanks again for the kind words!
You've got it exactly! The way you used the shadows to define it looks really amazing. I can't even imagine what it's got to be like if you CAN'T add the shadows yourself and have to let the colorist handle it. Talk about leaving your baby with a stranger! And you are very welcome!
Yeah, sometimes when you're collaborating it turns out better than it would have, had you done it all yourself, but other times there's some information that gets misinterpreted or just interpreted differently that you would have hoped. I've been pretty lucky with most of the people I've worked with over the years, but I'm a control freak so I like to do it all myself
Hah. Don't blame you in the LEAST. Not that I can do a good job of coloring my own work, but just the idea of leaving it to someone else is odd to me. Guess I'd better get used to it though if I'd eventually like to get into comics.