N o n s e n s e W a r s • A n A r t b l o g
My second Tales of Graces painting features Cheria, who did not make it into the last one, primarily due to space constraints. The background is a hand-traced portion of the ToG logo. I don’t really believe there is anything particularly noteworthy about this painting except that the lineart is inked.
[120413]
Officially, Tales of Graces is the first US “mothership” Tales release in almost four years. I would consider it the first in six years if only because Vesperia on the 360 was not really complete. I slogged through about 70 hours of gameplay in about 9 days, which is actually pretty ridiculous in retrospect. Since I was going to class and stuff for half that time, I must have more time on my hands than I think. Or maybe the game time is wrong…
Today’s update is thus the first of (most likely) a few obligatory Graces paintings.
This is basically the contemporary equivalent of ToV on PS3, and generally an uneventful painting. Pretty standard quality and methodology, though it took a while due to the number of characters and the number of colors per character. Background is just me being not creative and or lazy. Next painting will probably go back to emphasizing quality lineart.
[120313] – [120325]
So today’s update is the entirety of my six-pager. I thought about splitting it into two updates, but there’s really no point, so instead I split it with a “more” function.
[120319]
I didn’t actually intend to write a post between the last one and the next one, but I drew stuff when I should have been studying so here it is. It’s written kind of funny in that all my rambling comes before the pics, so I’m putting the break here.
[120222] – [120311]
Today’s painting is the last of a series of three test paintings (the other two were posted last time). It’s a merged lineart painting, but I basically merged the lineart later in the painting process, and painted over a small portion. The drawing is actually dated for September of last year, almost six months ago. There was a small part painted sometime between now and September, and it was fast becoming a “dead” painting when I finished it up a few weeks ago.
I think the primary difference between this and 120131 is the point at which I decided to merge the lineart with the painting… in the older painting I intended to overwrite the pencil lineart entirely; in the newer painting I just wanted to get rid of it where it stood out the most. I think the reason I took these screens was to indicate when I merged; you can see that it’s much earlier in the latter.
Not quite sure how this sequence will affect future paintings yet; hopefully I’ll get to mess around a bit more over break.
I’m on page 4 of my originally 10-15, then 12, now 6 page one-shot, and it’s occurred to me that, for a while now, I’ve been drawing “new style” longer than I had been drawing “old style” (the division between “new” and “old” being comic 193). Whether this is really significant or now, I don’t really know, but it was just surprising when I thought about it. It’s like one of those time-will-pass-you-by-if-you’re-sleeping sort of things.
I’m actually writing this update because I was angry at a panel on page 4, but now I think I will try to get back to drawing.
