[David C. Matthews]

It’s not even finished yet! …but I’m so excited at how it’s turning out I have to share it with y’all.

So I had the day off from my job, and I’m trying to do a little bit on everything… I do have two panels done on the next page of Tetsuko #2… when a photo that had been lying in wait on my hard drive leaped out and screamed "Draw me!!" (That’s happened to you other artists, hasn’t it? …no? then I guess I am going crazy…) I got it from HerBiceps, and it instantly suggested the perfect situation. I flipped it from its original orientation, it just seemed better compositionally this way. It suggested Tetsuko going clubbing, wearing a hot little outfit and strutting her stuff to a thumpin’ techno beat.

Here’s what my blueline rough drawing looked like:

("Ink" is in quotes because everything was drawn in-computer.)

It may be a few days before I color it, because I do want to get back to my other projects… but rest assured, when it’s finished it’ll appear here first!

And even though she’s not naked, this may well be the sexiest Tetsuko drawing I’ve done so far.

[David]

😀 Shake it baby! 😀

[Matthew Lim]

That’s some really great stuff DCM. So it’s all photoshop? What brush settings do you use for all of it?

[Lonebeatle]

#8312

[JimmyDimples]

Nice pic… but… ó_ô

… is it just me, or have her arms shrunk?

[Vic]

OY, 😯 😳 8) 😆

[AlexG]

[color=green”><<< Ya, what he just said! 8)

And we do thank you for sharing with us – with enthusiastic gusto!!!

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[10-4]

That blue sketch looks more like traditional pencil work then computer drawn. I was about to ask if you had gone back to paper until I scrolled down to the "Ink" in quotes part.

All in all a nice picture.

[robclassact]

As always, excellent work.

[David C. Matthews]

That’s some really great stuff DCM. So it’s all photoshop? What brush settings do you use for all of it?

Actually, it’s Corel Painter 8. (I’m a version behind, but I haven’t seen the need to upgrade yet.) I like the pencil and pen tools much in Painter much better than Photoshop’s, although (this is strange but true) I get better results coloring in Photoshop even though Painter touts itself as better at recreating not only the results but the "feel" of using "real world" media and tools. Or maybe because Painter tries so hard to be "authentic", I find Photoshop’s coloring tools to be much more straightforward and easy to use. So… Painter for drawing, and Photoshop for painting… does that make sense?? (Well, it seems to work for me.)

So this drawing hasn’t been in Photoshop yet… that’s the next step.

And those of you who’ve recently purchased Wacom tablets probably got Corel Painter Essentials 2, a bare-bones version of Painter that should nevertheless give you the same drawing tools as the full version (but I’m not sure, I’ve never used Essentials). I use the 2B variant of the Pencil tool for rough sketches like the blueline above, and the Scratchboard variant of the Pens tool at a size of between 2.9 and 3.6 for "inking".

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