Geek Art Ahead

I am a big fat geek and recently I have been really sad because one of my favorite comic book characters was ruthlessly killed off. So, I was fooling around and made this theoretical female Blue Beetle using PaintShop Pro 8. I am no expert, so keep that in mind!

Not too shabby . . .

I was kinda bummed they "killed" Ted Cord. But remember, it's comics. Nobody stays dead for long.

style wise, reminiscent of the havok/wolverine x-over...
proportion is excellent, altho I'd debate the foreshortening on her left forearm.
now can you do 15 panels a day?

God, I hope so.

Since they made a point of showing the scarab glowing when his house blew up, and the Egyptian magical practices involving scarabs most often involved regeneration, ressurection and protection, I am really hoping they resurrect him...especially since it would makes sense for once.

They could play it similar to the Mark Spector / Moon Knight deal where some Egyptian diety tells Kord that his work is not yet done. Bring Blue Beetle back with a slightly different look and a bit harder edge, leave off the "Bwah-ha-ha" stuff from the JLI days, make him more like Batman in terms of personality and motivation. But have him remember when he was this happy-go-lucky doofus and sort of pine for those days.

Tama rmake some buffyverse art for us please.

Which tool lets you do that streaky look?

I make judicious use of the smudge tool.

I do some oil painting and this tool gives me similar effects with the "digital canvas".

Where is the picture of me as a naked woman that you promised me?

I promised no such thing..:shocked:

I think this fits with this thread. I was recently gifted a Wacom graphics tablet by a super kewl brother of mine. I always knew that photoshop wasn't really doing what I wanted it to and I had the chance to briefly play around with a tablet. Well, now that I have one and can spend hours using it, I have to say it's a freakin' amazing tool. Handled correctly you'd never know the work was done on a computer. I've only just begun to understand what this little machine can do and it's a thing of beauty.
I'm much more of a comic book-style inker, than an actual painter, so I'm really curious to see what this does to my art style...

^ Did you draw your avatar with it?

Alias, the people who make MAYA, make a program called "Sketchbook" It's a great program at what it does, which is basically sketching. It has a bunch of features, and different tools, pencil, pen, marker, airbrush, chisel type, all that jazz.

Where photoshop and painter are suites containing a lot of different things, Sketchbook just focuses on sketching.

I'd recommend this tool to anyone into digital art programs and such, and it's a must try program for any with a tablet, like a wacom.

The bad news, it's like $170, but the good news is that it has a 15 day, discontinuous trial period Even after the trial, the program still works, but a lot of the features, like layers, are disabled.

heres the link to Alias' website if anyone wants to give it a trylinky

I drew my avatar the old fashioned way. but I'll probably rework it with Coreldraw on the tablet.