Dr Unne
08-09-2006, 04:32 AM
I drew my cat named Cat. This is drawn via my Wacom tablet with a 3 pixel brush in Photoshop (different colors though obviously), no layers or filters or any of that Photoshop voodoo. All I know is pencil drawings, so that's what I did. It didn't turn out too bad, I think.
Here's some progress snapshots I took along the way. Skip to the bottom if you don't care.
Progress 1 (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat.png) - Rough sketch to see if this is going to be good enough to keep going with. And to get used to using the tablet. I never really drew anything "nice" on the tablet before so I'm not very good with it yet. I planned to keep approximately this level of detail in the final drawing, or a maybe little bit better. My original plan was only to use black and white. Alas...
Progress 2 (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat2.png) - ...my plans went awry. I couldn't stop adding more detail. This is maybe 3-4 hours into it and only the head is done. It turns out that what looks like black at a glance is actually a heck of a lot of colors. The color makes a lot of difference, subtle as it is.
Progress 3 (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat3.png) - Maybe 7-8 hours into it now. His back took no effort effort to draw at all. Just random scribbles in large quantity. But oh how I hate drawing white fur. I struggled a lot. I also touched up his face to look less cartoonish.
Progress 4 (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat4.png) - 9-10 hours into it now or so. I didn't do much more. I quit because I didn't want to draw his back paw because I hate white fur. And then I left for vacation for 2 weeks.
*** Finished drawing (I hope) (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat5.png) - 12 hours total maybe. I lost track. His back paw was as hard as the front ones. I used a lot of color to make up for not being able to draw in white. I decided to leave the background white so it looks like he's erupting out of a void with his laser eyes ablaze. Or something like that. I was going to use a 1 pixel brush and go over it all again, but I decided this was good enough. I'll see how it looks when I print it and then I might work more if necessary. I had to guess what the end of his tail looks like; I'm counting on not having people look at it, on account of the laser eyes etc.
Leeza, I'll send you a copy as thank-you for letting me eat all your food for two weeks.
Here's some progress snapshots I took along the way. Skip to the bottom if you don't care.
Progress 1 (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat.png) - Rough sketch to see if this is going to be good enough to keep going with. And to get used to using the tablet. I never really drew anything "nice" on the tablet before so I'm not very good with it yet. I planned to keep approximately this level of detail in the final drawing, or a maybe little bit better. My original plan was only to use black and white. Alas...
Progress 2 (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat2.png) - ...my plans went awry. I couldn't stop adding more detail. This is maybe 3-4 hours into it and only the head is done. It turns out that what looks like black at a glance is actually a heck of a lot of colors. The color makes a lot of difference, subtle as it is.
Progress 3 (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat3.png) - Maybe 7-8 hours into it now. His back took no effort effort to draw at all. Just random scribbles in large quantity. But oh how I hate drawing white fur. I struggled a lot. I also touched up his face to look less cartoonish.
Progress 4 (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat4.png) - 9-10 hours into it now or so. I didn't do much more. I quit because I didn't want to draw his back paw because I hate white fur. And then I left for vacation for 2 weeks.
*** Finished drawing (I hope) (http://briancarper.net/random/cat_progress/cat5.png) - 12 hours total maybe. I lost track. His back paw was as hard as the front ones. I used a lot of color to make up for not being able to draw in white. I decided to leave the background white so it looks like he's erupting out of a void with his laser eyes ablaze. Or something like that. I was going to use a 1 pixel brush and go over it all again, but I decided this was good enough. I'll see how it looks when I print it and then I might work more if necessary. I had to guess what the end of his tail looks like; I'm counting on not having people look at it, on account of the laser eyes etc.
Leeza, I'll send you a copy as thank-you for letting me eat all your food for two weeks.