Two Preview Images For This Week!

Two preview images for this week!

Both of these turned out pretty decent. The spotty leaf shadows on Knuckles look better than my previous forested images, so I call that a win. And the scribbly shading on the scenery works.

As for the other, I'm glad the shading still shows through because I like how the shadows on Snively turned out. I shaded it normally and then used a gradient fill layer to mostly colorize everything red like "robot vision," so the colors of everything kind of disappeared (except for where I very specifically faded out the gradient). I also had fun with the interlacing lines and messing with the text (it actually says stuff, but I used a symbol font to obfuscate it because it was distracting in readable English).

See you Monday with the chapter link!

And now the chapter is up! I hope you enjoy!

Here's the preview for the upcoming chapter of Falling into Darkness. Keeping with the grey theme, because apparently all my illustrations for a while are in Robotropolis.

This chapter just has one illustration, and our first proper full-body look at roboticized Sonic. I drew some inspirations from the design for Mecha Sonic (roboticized Sonic) in the Archie comics, such as with the gold elements, but also wanted this design to be its own thing (and needed certain design elements to be present for...reasons). I also really like how the shape of his curled hand became so much clearer to read when I colored some of the incidental lines to be closer to his "skintone."

As for Sally, her overall design is inspired by a lot of things. I'm not great at drawing her SatAM incarnation, and have honestly been a lot more influenced by how she looked through the bulk of the Archie comics (thanks to reading that for a while in college, and from the sheer amount of fanart of that version I've seen). I tried to tweak her look my way to have her fit in with the Sega-styled characters, without just resorting to her post-reboot look from the comics. I'm pretty happy with it.

I didn't originally have a background sketched in for this picture. It was just Sally and Sonic facing off against each other. I started painting random fog around them, which looked fine, but then decided I wanted to take a stab at painting the scrap yard behind them instead, very roughly with a painterly brush. (By the way, I cannot recommend Jazza's digital brushes enough; I'm very happy with how they feel to work with, and they're what I'm primarily using for all the shading and effects and the like, save for the edges of these illustration blocks.)

Anyway, see you Monday with the chapter link!

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I’ve done this before but I need more reassurance lol

Hey hey, it's Monday!

Knuckles needs to work on his communication skills something fierce.

Two preview images for this week!

Both of these turned out pretty decent. The spotty leaf shadows on Knuckles look better than my previous forested images, so I call that a win. And the scribbly shading on the scenery works.

As for the other, I'm glad the shading still shows through because I like how the shadows on Snively turned out. I shaded it normally and then used a gradient fill layer to mostly colorize everything red like "robot vision," so the colors of everything kind of disappeared (except for where I very specifically faded out the gradient). I also had fun with the interlacing lines and messing with the text (it actually says stuff, but I used a symbol font to obfuscate it because it was distracting in readable English).

See you Monday with the chapter link!

Since I've been sharing all the illustrations I've been working on lately, I figured I'd also show off the brushes I've been using for the main coloring work (shading, highlights, some texturing, any freehand background paintings), because I think they are some of my favorite go-to brushes I've found. This set is made by the artist Jazza on YouTube, and they work wonderfully for what I've been doing so far, and I haven't even dug that deep into them yet. Well worth the price in my opinion, and sometimes he runs sales or has discount codes available from his channel.

Note: this does not include the watercolor/ink strokes I've been using to do the masking around the edges of each picture. Those were various free sets I've collected over the years.

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