Beat to Quaters Chracacters- 1

Coming Soon...

another photoshop painting

Here's another picture, done for the forthcoming Beat to Quaters RPG. This one's inspired by the character of Queequeg from one of my all-time favourite novels, Moby Dick- he's a character who has always fascinated me so I thought I'd channel a little of him into one of the pieaces for some inspiration.

I think I may be getting better at this. Applied a testure overlay on this one. And I like the colour palette.

photoshop painting

Here's the cover for Beat to Quaters. I've painted the whole thing in Photoshop this time which is a new venture for me- I usually use Painter. Now, I love Painter so don't get me wrong on that, I just thought it was criminal to not use Photoshop to it's full capacity. And Adam Hughes uses Photoshop, so it must be good.

The different parts (jacket, sashes, etc.) were all done on seperate layers set to multiply over the original linework and then lights and shadows were done exclusively with Dodge and Burn. In Painter I would have used transparent colour shade overlays for this, which is where thhis has differed. I then put a second copy of the linework over it set to 30% opacity just to pull the lines forward a bit.

It's done, I don't know if I like it or not, but it is my first attempt. I think I've just been looking at it for to long, so I can't tell if it's any good or not...

drawings ahoy!

Been drawing all day long- man, my hand hurts! Enough of my poor misery- here is a teaser image for the Beat to Quaters artwork which I have been doing. The rest of them will follow tomorrow, when I can scan them all in...

Where's the magic?

Was going to ink all of the designs tonight but realised I had no magic tape left! And a man needs magic tape.

So I drew another character. Here he is in his formative glory...

beat to quaters cover continued

lots more detail to come.

and totally new heads, for these ones are poo.