Io
My card and present I finally got around to doing for my brother, Io ("eye oh" is his name, not his initials). Io loves Dark Souls so I based it on the Dark Sign from the videogame series known as Dark Souls, by From Software.
About 20 hours, original done on A4. The quality is quite low but its the best that can be done with a scanner, though because of the resolution cutoff (well, thats what it seems like anyways ) it probably won't look any better on here. At some point I'll get em all shot with a camera, I think it's the only way to retain the detail. And at that point I'll blow this up to A2 and print it off like mums one.
Happy Birthday, Enkindled One.
Didn't get the initial form but it was just a circle and two lines
Six hours so far, I decided that if I'm going to have so many embers then I should have wind, too, never done it like this before but I'm happy with it
Fire framework
Coming along
I went all out with the embers on this one, I just kept adding them as I went through and it looked better and better
Down past 6 O'clock now, more fire
filled in, on to the I finally. Second time I've started with the last character first now. Here is when I re-did the I horizontals as they were just rough forms
The lines for the blades might look shaky but I didn't want them too clean and tidy so I nicked them. I just used a ruler for pencilling in the blades and double checking the squareness of the horizontals, they were within half a mill so thats allgood
Moving on, I do the embers on the 7 O'clock flames last because I had to be sure how they'd look
Nearly there, that little mark within the O annoyed me, I did it in the first session by dropping my pen, nearly broke it too
It's a really nice one; a 0.1 Copic Multiliner SP. They're superb, refillable, and have replaceable tips. The mother of my friend who I drew HC for got me a set, along with some high quality pencils
Finally did this fire. I was a little worried because the whole time I was drawing it I didn't think it fit with the rest of it but I just kept chucking lil marks in there and it worked out
More close ups
Quite pleased
Final, paper blemishes removed and levels adjusted in PS. Im not happy with the quality of these anymore, Artstation limits the resolution, too. The scan looks better. Sometime soon I'll get exceptional photos taken of them because scans just don't cut it
The Dark Sign. The flames might be roaring in my one but the resemblance is there nevertheless