TATA GALA SHE-SPARTAN#2

And here's the second submission piece, colored, tweaked and adjusted from it's previous posting.

TATA GALA SHE-SPARTAN #1

Finally finished up the colors for my two submissions to the TATA GALA breast cancer fundraiser show happening in my old stomping grounds of Sarasota FL next month, and boy did I put some work into these babies!



There were a lot of details to be worked out with these: the illustrations are very detailed to begin with, I was trying some new things with halftone shading, and coming up with final color schemes I was happy with took longer than it should have (I finished coloring this one yesterday, took a break and came back to it only to realize the color scheme I had chosen made it look like a box of Franken-Berry cereal!). Compounding my woes is the fact that my computer was giving me a royal bloody fit with these files. Coloring them was a powerful headache as it brought the speed of my system grinding to a slow crawl. The files were tremendously large with lots of layers and my computer is just old and decrepit.



Anyway, I managed to get them done and submitted literally right at the stroke of midnight, which was the deadline, so hopefully I'll hear whether or not they were accepted soon. Can't wait to go down for the show -- hope to see you there.

TATA GALA SNEAK PEEK!

Work in progress. It's coming along nicely...

SHE-SPARTAN #2 INKS!!

Finished scanning and piecing together the second She-Spartan illustration for this month's TATA GALA show. I'm really proud of how these have turned out so far. If only I had a decent large-format scanner so I didn't have to scan these things in small chunks and piece them together in photoshop! What a headache! If anybody has a mac-compatible large-format scanner they're looking to get rid of, please let me know.

As with the previous piece, I took some progress shots just for fun. On to the colors!

SHE-SPARTAN INKS!!

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Finished inking both my Tata Gala submissions. Had to scan them in sections, so I've only got one assembled and cleaned up so far. Took some progress pictures along the way, so I thought I'd share them too. Inked almost entirely with brush. I really like the way this one turned out -- now I just have to figure out what to do with colors...

TATA GALA SUBMISSION PART 2: A PREVIEW!

Finished pencils for my second submission to the annual TATA GALA breast cancer research benefit show.
Another reworking of one of my skateboard designs.
Compare and contrast below... she's got legs this time... and a SWORD!

TATA GALA pencils exposed!

Some of you might recognise this pose from one of my skateboard designs. I was going to attempt to submit an entry to this years TATA GALA show (an art show held to benefit breast cancer research spearheaded by one of my art skool pals, the super-talented Erik Jones), and I thought my She Spartan designs would be a perfect fit. The problem was I (of course) wasn't 100% satisfied with the original designs as they were done during a very stressful period and under a bit of a rush. As they could do with a polishing up, I decided to rework them and really make them shine. Anyway, this is the final pencil drawing for the first piece and I have no idea what sort of color treatment I'm going to give it. I'd like to try something different and painterly, but the Oct. 1st deadline is looming fairly menacingly on the horizon, so I'm thinking I should just stick with what I'm comfortable with. More to come.

Oh, and I've included the original piece, just for comparison's sake.