Acquana's Art Thread -- Closed, New Thread Started

Rel · Feb 28, 2005

WOW, I too followed the link you posted in the Samantha the Red Story Hour and I am humbled and overjoyed by the picture. Awesome!

Thank you, Acquana, from the bottom of my heart.

I hope you have no objections to my using this as the new wallpaper for my computer.

Acquana · Feb 28, 2005

Oh thank you, everyone! You're welcome, Rel, and of course! Use it as you wish. Sorry, Punkorange, I misread. And I've been rather snippy in real life the last few days. ^_^;;

And no, Clueless, I don't ink. These are very quick sketches, each usually taking less than half an hour apiece, and simply run through Adobe Photoshop. I make sure the image is in black and white, and then adjust the levels to sharpen my outlines and get rid of most of the underdrawing.

More to come! And thanks for the replies.

Clueless · Feb 28, 2005

What hardness pencil? I'm curious b/c I've been trying to get my own work that *clean* on a scan and it's sort of making me boggle.

Rel · Feb 28, 2005

Acquana said:
Oh thank you, everyone! You're welcome, Rel, and of course! Use it as you wish.

I printed out a copy of it and showed Samantha when she got home from school today. She immediately recognized it as being her, Egg Wizard and Rainbow Cat. She immediately wanted to color it so I let her. If you'd like then I'll post a scan of her "colorization" of the picture tomorrow. Then again, you may want to remember it how you drew it in the first place instead of scribbled on in the way that only a 3 year old can do.

Thanks again. My wife was really pleased too.

Acquana · Mar 1, 2005

Awwwwwww

Of course I'd like to see it! *blush* Your child bombards the senses with adorable, that's why I simply couldn't resist a drawing!

And the way I usually draw is with either a soft lead pencil or a col-erase blue pencil for the underdrawing. Then I go in with either a .5 or a .7 lead mechanical pencil to do the contour lines and important bits.

Acquana · Mar 1, 2005

02/28/05

Hey, hey, hey! Guess what time it is? Time for another semi-weekly assignment! This time it's webcomics I like!

Girly follows the saying that a friend of mine during college would say: Lesbians make everything better. Pretty much every comic this guy draws has got lesbians in it. But anyway, Girly is great. I can't hate it despite it being some dude's chance to draw a lot of cheescake. It's got some really great, likable characters, and you really do wanna find out what's next. BTW, probably not for young readers. You know. I'd call it PG-13.

RangerWickett · Mar 1, 2005

From cute kids to lesbians. Ahh, it's like 11th grade all over again.

Jess, remind me, did you ever do Sluggy fan-art? Homestar? Not technically a webcomic, but merely a clever facsimile.

Rel · Mar 1, 2005

Let's see if I can attach my scan of the colorized Samantha the Red (I'm betting I'll have the same problem I've been having with the Story Hour)...Nope. The best I can do is a .rar file. Hopefully you can open that, Acquana.

Thank you again.

ledded · Mar 1, 2005

Oh man Rel, that just made my day. Now I wanna go home and hug my girls, and then lead them on another adventure myself.

Acquana, I love your work. You command of perspective, even in your quicker sketches, is impeccable. I'm glad I found your thread, I'll keep my eyes open for new stuff.