King Skullie!
May 29, 2008
by dave
Filed under Dave Posts, Video
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of working on a fun project with the great students of “Ralphadelphia!” in Florida. They wrote and designed King Skullie – a true defender of evil. For my contribution I promised a video drawing which has now slithered its way onto CreatureBox!
Greg and I are still working on our Comic-Con plans. More on that soon along with the announcement of our Birthday contest winner!
King Skullie
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Brilliant! this just made me want to plug in my tablet and draw.
thanks for sharing, it gives me a great idea of the process that takes place.
I love watching these, they are amazing. I have a quick question for you. What program do you use for the color work? Photoshop? Painter? I was just curious.
Thanks for putting that up. Inspiring. Now I want to go do make something!
wow are awesome…thanks
Whoa. Beautiful as usual. Soooooooo inspirational.
i’m still watching the monitor with my mouth wide open! and think to how much i have to learn more!
dynamic shapes, beautiful inking (also with PS?), colored shadows, somekind of brushes for skin pattern, colored outlines!
it’s all perfect! thanks for posting! now i go to re-watch
wow, thanks for posting this, like flaviano mentioned, so many awesome techniques to learn from.
amazing, Im blown away. Just watching this, I think my knowledge doubled. Thanks alot
WOW! Amazing! I have a trascendental question: wich software do you use to inking? a psd brush? Sketchbook?
WHICH OOOONE???? please, please….
Really enjoy watching your videos and artwork. Like many of the previous comments state very inspirational and makes you want to create something.
Great work.
pure magic. i didn’t want it to end.
Thanks a lot guys. For software, this was done with the dynamic duo: Sketchbook for drawing, Photoshop for painting. More stuff coming soon.
d.
Dave! thanks for stopping back for a quickie…man I love you guy’s art!
—Bernard
Dave, thanks so much for doing this with my students. It was the number one topic of conversation for the last two and a half weeks. Scott
You are so good, it actually hurts a little.
Joshua
A grade inspiration and motivation! Thanks a lot, amazing work!
I agree with Joshua, but I would say it hurts a lot.
E
Awesome stuff
Just wondered whether everything was drawn freehand using just a brush. The linework is perfect!
Cheers
Fantastic video, I really love the unique shapes that you start with and then flesh out. Just a quick question, which tool are you using for the sketching and inking in Sketchbook Pro, are they custom tools or one of the default pencils or pens? Keep on drawing, cheers Rob.
Thanks Rob. The brushes are custom based on the pencil tool. You can get the majority of the variation from experimenting with the spacing and edge hardness settings. Wider spacing is more pencil like while tight spacing creates a sable brush feel. Hope that helps!
dave
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the tips about how to edit the tools in Sketchbook Pro. I’m going to try them out when I get home from work. Cheers, Rob.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for those tips, I just succeded in making some pretty good clones of my favourite HB sketching pencil and an old sable inking brush, in addition I even made an ellipse brush. Oh, and I picked up a copy of your CreatureBox sketchbook with the enclosed DVD as well, great stuff on there.
Just a question though, what is the standard image size that you use for the video illustrations on the DVD? I ask because the default Sketchbook Pro Image size of 2.8 by 1.68 inches with a resolution of 600 seems odd to me, and when I dial it up to mimic a page of 8×11 paper the tools go all wonky. Keep up the excellent work, cheers, Rob.
Hi! You have amazing skills! I’m sure everyone keep telling you that. But two things about your work bothering me actually. The first one: when you cleanup colors all the colors that lays behind the line you erasing with an eraser or cover with different color? White for example.
The second thing is that I can’t get how you make so precise lines without zooming and what instrument you use? Since you don’t use any color fills I figure you don’t need to keep it 100% strong but still I’m curious
Thanks in advance
hey great simply funny and amazing cretures,i love the designs,just wanted to ask you ,wht software do u use for inkingout the rough drawing?(like in the demo).love the king of cleanups you do .its realiee brings out the solidity into the drawings .hope u dont mind.sharing this.thnx
hey thanks dave our class of ralphadelphia loves the video. the music matched with king skullie. i was the guy who came up with the ds gps on his wrist. it was awesome to keep emailing you(we as the class thought the questions and sentences out while mr.Ralph typed them).you can email me back @ lumaris1998@yahoo.com.hey we thank you all for what you did. even though it’s a new year i still and always think what you did for us as class and maybe the class also. you keep rockin. i hope you had a nice christmas and happy new year.
from,
luis irizarry in the ralphadelphian learning commuity
lumaris1998@yahoo.com
i’m the kid alway on the right in the glasses
Very, very good!