The results of another OpenCanvas session with that same guy.� This one was a bit longer, about an hour and half actually online and a further fifteen or so patching it up for submission.� He just kept insisting on more and more tribal bling!
It's still not great.� That right arm is awful and it took me five attempts to get the face looking cougarish.
OpenCanvas is a very wierd program for me.� It forces me to improvise by eliminating about three steps from my usual drawing process.� Normally I do a light construction sketch, tighten that in light pencils.� Then I do the dark, finished pencils, then maybe shading. In rare cases I go from there to inking.�
OC cuts out everything between construction and inking.� It's very, very hard to add those extra steps digitally - be it a mental block or the fact that digital is just a very different process.� OC also lack any kind of precision; there is no pen tool, no selection tool.�
Hence less-then-stellar anatomy and very rushed shading, but also, a loose energetic feel and a feeling that it is finished.
Oh, gawd, I love how the tail encircles the rock.�
I'll shut up now.
