Some scanned and lightly processed pencil drawings....

Some scanned and lightly processed pencil drawings. Sharing the whole page would spoil a whole lot, so here's a partial view.

Hakazi is stuck. He doesn't like being stuck.

Like 4 Sep 2023 at 17:58 | Open on merveilles.town

20 comments

jkossen

@rek Looks great and like something I'd very much like to read 😃 Will this be available in the 100r store when it's finished?

4 Sep 2023 at 19:37 | Open on mastodon.social

R E K

@jkossen someday, maybe :). I'm still playing with the characters and story at the moment.

4 Sep 2023 at 22:46 | Open on merveilles.town

Jummit

@rek Honestly, I like this style of linework a lot. When I tried scanning pencil drawings I can never get it to look good. Care to share more details about the workflow?

5 Sep 2023 at 8:03 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

R E K

@Jummit you mean that it comes out messy, or? I’m a pretty messy drawer, so I usually have a bit of cleanup to do.
Which involves playing with levels in Gimp to darken lines & lighten whites, then for persistent messes I add a new layer and set it to ‘overlay’ then draw over with white, leaving the darker important lines untouched.
Anyway not sure this is what you were looking for :>

5 Sep 2023 at 15:39 | Open on merveilles.town

Jummit

@rek Yeah, sorry for not being more specific (I don't really know why my results aren't as good so I don't know the unknowns), but I will try to play with the levels and do some touch ups.
I have a feeling that I didn't set the scanner quality as high as it could and that's why I got some artifacts, so that's another thing to check.
Thanks for the tips and inspiration nonetheless, and I'd love to see more details of the process!

5 Sep 2023 at 15:47 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

R E K replied to Jummit

@Jummit yea depends what you start with (how clean it is), scanner settings, etc :).
My scanner settings could be a lot better, I could probably get better, cleaner results. I’m just lazy ^_^;;...

5 Sep 2023 at 16:12 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K

Sometimes... it feels like I’m animating XD!

I’ve already shared a bunch of these, but it’s funny to see them all together (the ‘smiling-but-worried’ one is new tho).

5 Sep 2023 at 16:23 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K

“What a monster looks like depends on who you ask.”

Indeed, some monsters wear suits and ties.

12 Sep 2023 at 23:02 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K

I've been struggling with this particular sequence for a long while because the scene takes place at night, and I wasn't sure how to make it look good. I've been on/off it for weeks, mostly cause I was frustrated, but also cause we've been moving the boat a lot.

I think I've finally found something I like :>.

Hakazi and Dae see well in the dark, but the guard doesn't (uses a flashlight to see).

16 Sep 2023 at 21:26 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K replied to R E K

Time for The Great Squishing :blobhaj_reach:

20 Sep 2023 at 15:40 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K replied to R E K

Hit hard in the face, bit violent.

Think I’m getting better at drawing my OCs getting the stuffing kicked out of them.

Not sure they’re glad of it though.

23 Sep 2023 at 3:24 | Open on merveilles.town

R E K replied to R E K

Forever experimenting with this project.
I’m looking to do less on the computer, so I’ve abandoned the idea of shading digitally, and am trying to do it by hand with pencils. So far so good?