AuraWolf (character owned by him) with some of those pesky metroids who have seemed to find him…

ArtRage and Photoshop. 

ArtRage messy portrait of a royal white wolf. Not my character, as he belongs to Aaron, but it was a lotta fun. :)

Mo Problems

It was created using a program called ArtRage.

Artrage is really good and being fun doodling with tools that emulate traditional mediums. The brush strokes are real nice. And having had started with traditional mediums back in the day, I like to revisit those roots when I can with my digital art, because really, I don’t get to go back and mess with real paints and inks as much as I’d like to.

Sketch

First phase, sketched out the basic head, just getting my composition down and marking fur patterns and such. I had other head angles sketched but I I forgot to save them.

Ink

Black “ink” linework and worked in a colored background of the general color I know I wanna work with. I wanted kind of a moody deep feeling for this piece, so I went with some dim earthy warm colors.

Color

Keeping in mind my lightsources, I just just filling this guy in. I start with a basic flat color foundation, one layer for each color fur pattern, and just work in my shadows and highlights. Didn’t focus too much on reflective color on this piece.

I did some touch up shadowing in Photoshop. I knew I wanted more for the background, and in this wip, you can see the black outline. With so much “black” on this character, I didn’t feel like the black outline did enough. I used what I felt like was “white out”, to outline him, and the entire time I couldn’t help but think of the old days when I’d love to paint on paper collages.

And that’s what you see in the final version above.

I just can’t look at, or think of Bubble Bobble without hearing that theme song.

Loved this as a kid, so I had to do a bright fun bright homage to that of what is Bubble Bobble. :)

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Mediums: Digital paint via ArtRage2.0