I have once again not been able to do any of the things I *wanted* to do this evening, but I don't want to wait any longer to share this:
Veridicus, all coloured!
Nout, a.k.a. the Comics Expert, gave me the little gem on Saturday. It seems that he keeps putting subtle (?) pressure on a real colour artist to make my lines look a bit more presentable... The great colours gracing my modest pencils are the work of Bartel Bruneel, whose art you can find on his blogspot Willborough, and the same artist who did the colours on Comm here.
Veridicus, all coloured!
Nout, a.k.a. the Comics Expert, gave me the little gem on Saturday. It seems that he keeps putting subtle (?) pressure on a real colour artist to make my lines look a bit more presentable... The great colours gracing my modest pencils are the work of Bartel Bruneel, whose art you can find on his blogspot Willborough, and the same artist who did the colours on Comm here.
Thanks a million, Bartel :D! This is absolutely wonderful - Veridicus looks alive! It's incredible how this colour art gives him substance. In my picture he was simply flat. I would never have believed that he could look so real, and the skin tones and facial muscles are gorgeous...
*swoons*
I told you, didn't I, that Veridicus was handsome? Well, you have the proof now! :P
la la la lalala la la la la lala lala la la la la laaaaaaaaaaa...
G'night!
*swoons*
I told you, didn't I, that Veridicus was handsome? Well, you have the proof now! :P
la la la lalala la la la la lala lala la la la la laaaaaaaaaaa...
G'night!
7 comments:
Subtle?! Who, me?!
*'accidentally' knocks over computer monitor*
I simply 'made him an offer he couldn't refuse'.
Njork -_-
I suspected something like that... Whatever, my ethics always lose in matters like these ;P.
I was starting to wonder: "How did Sigune become so awesome in digital colouring in a fortnight?" ;-P Ah, there's the trick ^^ No, seriously, I'd be overexcited too if someone would colour a sketch of mine this well. The rendering of facial muscles are really impressive, but your drawing is good, too. I particularly like the nose, the elongated eye and the curls :)
Thank you! I was pretty happy with him in the first place, because I managed to build his face differently from usual - less narrow. And I spent ages on the curls :D.
I'm so amazed at what colour can do. It does remind me how little *I* can do with it, though :/. But if Bartel doesn't mind being generous with his art, well... I'm lucky!
Yesterday I watched "Attila" with Gerald Butler (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259127/). It wasn't an historically over-consistent movie - ignoring the ravaging of Italy and the meeting with the pope, for example - but it was enjoyable for the sake of the show and especially for its portrayal of Flavius Aetius and his tactics against the Huns. Maybe for the first time I became conscious of the dramatic potential of stories of Romans vs. Barbarians (after Caesar, I mean). It made me wonder if there's a good novel about Aetius.
I'm sorry to say I don't know! There are serious holes in my knowledge of history, and I hate to admit that I draw a blank on most of Attila's exploits. I do know that he died in his (umpteenth) marriage bed, of course - that's the sort of thing I remember :P. But Flavius Aetius? Mmmmno. Maybe I should watch the film for starters?
Don't worry, I didn't know much about him too before that movie. He's the general that in a first moment makes an allegiance with the Huns (he was an hostage of the Huns in his youth) and then fights against them. He defeats Attila in a great tactic battle at the Catalaunian Plains and was planning to obtain the marriage of his son with the emperor's daughter, but the emperor Valentinianus stabbed him with his own hand, fearing that Aetius aimed to the throne himself. Gibbon dubbed him "the last of the Romans".
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