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Here's the first pic that
I ever drew of Katarina, sometime in 1998. Note the cat-like muzzle,
the sketchy line quality, and bad coloring job. |
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"Katarina looking dangerous." Another
pic from 1998. I had almost perfected my coloring technique at this
point, but I still couldn't draw a muzzle if my life depended on it.
And my ears were still awful. |
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"Katarina in a gown originally worn by
Madonna." Late 1998. This pic was done right before I changed
my style. I had perfected my coloring technique, but I still didn't
have a wide assortment of colored pencils. Unfortunately, I was still
working on cheap paper, so this scanned really bumpy where I did a lot
of coloring. |
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"Sisters." Early 1999. This
is one of the first pics I did in my "new" style. I elongated Katarina's
muzzle, making it much more vulpine. I got more Prismacolors, so
I could choose a better color of orange for her fur. The nose was
still too chocolate chip like here, and the ears look odd, as does the
muzzle. |
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"Lillian." Sometime in 1999.
This was the first pic where I actually got a decent looking nose.
I still like this one quite a bit, actually ^_^ |
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"Amidala." Note that the ears actually
look decent! Sometime in 1999 I started computer coloring my art.
Older attempts make me wince. Improving my computer coloring is something
that I still constantly struggle with. |
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"Katanic." A good representation
of my art from the 2000-2001 era. Not too different overall from
1999, but a bit more polished. A little more experimentation with
perspective and poses. |
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"Kyoot Lillian." 2001. One
of my first computer colored pics where I tried to achieve the texture
of my hand colored images. As for style...this is a representative
of my rarely used "superkyoot" style. |
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"Fernblossom, dancing." In 2001,
I discovered the beast they call "oekaki". One of my better attempts
from that year. Creating a successful oekaki drawing is a lot harder
than one would think. |
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"Beer Wench." Late 2001. Another
slight deviation in style here. It was suggested to me to try to
make the muzzles less boxy, so this was my first attempt at doing so.
Also, the highlight on the nose was moved from the entire upper half of
the nose to just the tip. This is what I consider my current "mature"
style, although it will probably evolve more as time goes by. |
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"St. Pauli Wench." 2002. Composition
and background became more important to my work around this time.
This was my first successful attempt at a minimal shaped background with
more than a gradation of color. This was also the first pic where
I realized that laying down a little marker before the colored pencils
might improve the look of the finished product and make it go a little
quicker. |
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"Digon." 2002. This was the
first pic that I colored entirely in Photoshop. I colored under the
sketch on layers instead of just flood-filling everything. The result
was a much smoother, more pleasant image. |
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"Wolf Paladin." 2003. My first
night scene. Night scenes aren't as easy as they look. It requires
a *lot* of thought about lighting and how to keep things from getting too
dark. |
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"Laced." 2004. My first experiment
with using colored inks to ink the detail and texture lines, instead of
my typical all black inks. The colors turned out much more vivid
than usual. |
