[Artwork] Inferno's Art & Comics *currently under heavy reconstruction due to the server wipe*

[Ferno]

I like your style, hmmm,if I can make one critique (don't hate me ;A;), maybe its the angle, but the face seems kind of off center? I dunno, but other than that, nice work, teach me how to color <3

 

Yeah, I drew her face and body a little bit slanted to the left, though I guess her hair is kinda covering part of the head shape that was there in the sketch-phase which adds to the off-centered look which wasn't fully intentional. Alot of times though, I like to add a teesny-bit of off-center-ness to my characters as I feel it makes them look more lively than if they were standing perfectly symmetrical. Sometimes this does backfire though if I didn't mean it to look that way, but alot of times I do. I appreciate you and anyone else who does give critiques though. After awhile I do tend to get tunnel vision on what I need to improve on, and extra pairs of eyes to tell me where I'm slipping up is always appreciated, wouldn't have gotten as far as I have so far without people doing that every now and then.

 

As for my colors, I tend to use alot of layers, sometimes more than is really needed, but I tend to go overboard as I really like going wild with color.

Edited December 19, 2013 by SnowFerno

[Silencer226]

Yeah, I drew her face and body a little bit slanted to the left, though I guess her hair is kinda covering part of the head shape that was there in the sketch-phase which adds to the off-centered look which wasn't fully intentional. Alot of times though, I like to add a teesny-bit of off-center-ness to my characters as I feel it makes them look more lively than if they were standing perfectly symmetrical. Sometimes this does backfire though if I didn't mean it to look that way, but alot of times I do. I appreciate you and anyone else who does give critiques though. After awhile I do tend to get tunnel vision on what I need to improve on, and extra pairs of eyes to tell me where I'm slipping up is always appreciated, wouldn't have gotten as far as I have so far without people doing that every now and then.

 

As for my colors, I tend to use alot of layers, sometimes more than is really needed, but I tend to go overboard as I really like going wild with color.

Yeah, making a character really symmetrical is boring, you have to give them life and make them look dynamic. Which I think you do a good job on. I like your line work too, its really bold which makes the characters pop.

[Ferno]

Speaking of my projects, Along with Frieda and Half Blend, I'm also experimenting with even smaller projects to go alongside them. Stuff that's truly "made-up-as-they're-drawn" so to speak. The way my life is currently going, I don't have time to sit and plan things for years on end. I need to get things out there now. Like, now, now. Maybe in the coming months I'll start elaborating on those smaller projects as well as my larger ones to get some momentum going.

 

*boop*

 

 

 

I was able to drag myself out of my moping mood long enough to get some drawing done, and due to lack of internet, I sorta just... did alot of it. I'm switching gears a bit. This year I wanna focus more on doing rather than planning, which goes for all my projects, and to start with, I wanna introduce the original counterpart to my Frieda project that's even older than Half Blend, a concept that I started developing shortly after I started working on Frieda but never talked about. Out of all my projects, it's the first one that's pretty much being made up as it goes along, and it's turning out to be one of my most bizarre in terms of setting and concepts. The Cheesecake Odyssey project is about as old as the Frieda one, being developed on-and-off quietly since 2012, though for the longest time the project was kind of shelved as I was unsure if I would move forward with it, to the point that Half Blend was supposed to take it's spot in my project pipeline. The story behind it is that from the start, I knew Frieda would take awhile to develop, so I wanted to work on a smaller made-up-as-it-goes-along project alongside it to fill in the gap and actually get some comic-making practice in. "I like cheesecake. What if I personify it?" That was pretty much the start of the whole thing. I drew a concept of the character, and then as usual I couldn't just leave it at that. I gave the character a weapon as she looked like a heroic type, and you eat cheesecake with a fork so I made it as such, then later on I came up with a basic story concept that sorta made the getup feel less out-of-nowhere, but that's pretty much all that was actually planned outside of a few other character designs and locations. 

 

As for why I'm only taking about it now after all this time, I shelved the project for awhile, planning only to revisit it if IRL got too hectic to even try to work on Frieda or Half Blend anytime soon, saving it as an emergency backup story that could be quicky created on the fly if need be. Welp, the fact that I'm starting it should be an indicator of how things are for me right now. I've got no internet or TV at my place right now so I don't have much else to do, I have less time to draw due to work and no extra money coming in to finally get a better computer and have Windows again anytime soon, (the key programs I needed for both Half Blend and Frieda were Windows-based so there goes that for the time being) so I turned to this project again to keep myself occupied, sane, and actually doing something until I'm able to continue with the other stories beyond the planning stages. I'm using mainly Linux-based programs to create the comic right now, (the same program I used to create my 24 hour comic,) and the fact that it's made up on the go means that there's more time spent actually drawing. The next few installments (which will probably be linked to from elsewhere) may have less shading and details as this chapter sorta killed me to draw, but I wanted it to look nice as it was chapter 1. Frieda is still happening though, and so is Half Blend, though HB may be finished and uploaded later on all in one go at this point due to that story being better as a single completed self-contained work and not chopped and spread into page-sized pieces.

 

I want 2014 to be a productive year. It may be a little bumpy, but I'm tired of sitting around waiting for my life to get settled enough and turbulent free before really starting something, I'm just saying screw-it at this point and getting started.

[JezMM]

Love it so far, the shading gets the atmosphere of each scene across just fine, the main character is crazy adorable and then taken up to 11 post transformation, the ancient-power-being-activated-at-incorrect-time concept is really neat.  Can't wait to see more!

[Milo]

I want 2014 to be a productive year. It may be a little bumpy, but I'm tired of sitting around waiting for my life to get settled enough and turbulent free before really starting something, I'm just saying screw-it at this point and getting started.

 

 

 

[Ferno]

 

Wanted to show them in color. Unlike my other recent stuff, for these characters and this story I'm experimenting with a coloring and shading style that's a little softer and sketchier in places (emulating the pencill-y way it was shaded in chapter 1) to make it kinda different compared to my other two stories which feature sharper and more cel-shaded-esque elements.  (even though it'll mainly be in black and white most of the time.)

[Ferno]

Some Pokemon girls because I've been trying to get back into my usual fanart-making stuffs recently, though I'm now starting to experiment with applying varying levels of my own art style to them because I don't do that enough.

 

 

A rather cartoony Bianca. Did this in about an hour. It was so quick because I didn't have to worry about trying to keep her on-model and sorta just did my own thing for the most part. Wanted to go big and sorta swooshy with the outlines, also exaggerating things like her hair and the bow on her hat because I like doing that sorta thing.

 

 

Took it a step further here. This one took around six hours. Working on this was similar to the Bianca one, only this time I took my time. I wanted to try to push myself and see what I could do in terms of details. My style for drawing faces is sorta varied, with atleast 3 or 4 differing variations for each part of the face that come from the same base pretty much, so it's pretty easy for me to mix & match or minimize/exaggerate elements, or even omit or include details here or there to take the style and sometimes make it look pretty different depending on how I'm feeling or what I wanna draw. This does backfire at times though. Because my art style isn't always set in stone, alot of my own characters can look pretty different from one picture to the next if I'm not careful.

[Ferno]

 

Moar pokeman-related stuff. Trying to keep my productivity up. I'm not exactly trying to go through all the gym leaders or anything, but Sabrina's been on my to-draw list for awhile. I had a number of references on hand for her, ranging from her earliest designs to her newer ones, but I decided to kinda mix her classic and recent original designs from before the 3 year time skip in HG/SS. Parts of her early anime design was also something I studied while drawing this.

[Ferno]

Sorry for all the pokemanz stuff but I was really wanting to draw Bianca again as the previous one was a little too rushed imo:

 

 

Took my time on this one, giving myself a break between sittings to get better results from each step, rather than trying to cram everything in one sitting for the sake of saving time.

[ProfessorZolo]

Man, you got very good, very quickly. I love the way you colour! The gradients and saturation are just gorgeous!

...I can't unsee Squirtle's sunglasses on her shoes though. :V

[Ferno]

Man, you got very good, very quickly. I love the way you colour! The gradients and saturation are just gorgeous!

...I can't unsee Squirtle's sunglasses on her shoes though. :V

 

Thanks, I guess most of it comes from the fact that I tend to get bored with what I'm drawing pretty fast unless it's atleast a little better than a previous work I did in some shape or form. And funny that you mention the saturation, as for this pic I kept having to raise it during the coloring phase, as the official art I sampled the colors from was a little washed out I felt for what I was trying to do visually, and I wanted something more vibrant. This also led to me using even more layers of shading than I already use, which resulted in how the final pic came out looking.

 

...and now I can't unsee it either. :U I was sorta trying to give all 3 bows a more dynamic shape though.

[Ferno]

 

Felt like drawing Frieda again. I don't draw her smiling enough so I gave her sort of a playful look here. At first she started off as a pretty quiet and introspective character, then she sorta evolved into a pretty hot-headed one over time, while retaining some of the older traits she started with. Visually, alot of her features have been simplified over time, and combined with generally getting better at drawing, she's now easier to draw than she was in the past, on top of being closer to the original look I had for the character in my head that I wasn't able to draw at the time. Most of my attention is on Cheesecake Odyssey right now but one of my current goals for the Frieda project is to pretty much have the character designs and their personalities worked out before starting on that. The starting point for the Frieda comic pretty much depends on how fast I can start and wrap up both Cheesecake Odyssey and Half Blend at this point, as well as however long it'll take for me to finally get a better computer. Out of my comic projects, the Frieda one is currently the comic I wanna have running the longest, so I'm giving myself more time to keep working on it while I have my smaller projects in the foreground for the time being.

[Ferno]

I don't practice pencilly stuff enough so I made a pencil-styled version:

 

 

I also went with my original idea for the picture, which featured Frieda leaning on a tree.

 

And here's another Ardie pic:

 

 

It's another potential evolution to his design. Not much has changed other than added details as I felt that it was a little plain and dull before, plus I changed the colors a bit to be a little closer to how they were originally. I felt that they started getting more and more basic and primary and wanted to tone them down them a little while still adding a touch of vibrancy. His hair is also in a slightly more dynamic shape while staying similar to how it was before. Even with all the changes, I still made sure to keep his proportions and overall height pretty simplified and compact, as that was the original idea behind his design to begin with. Out of all my characters, I think he's actually the easiest for me to draw on a regular basis.

 

And another pokemon-related doodle:

 

 

Been playing Pokemon X recently and really liked the design of the Team Flare grunts so I went ahead and drew the girl one. Her shirt probably isn't sleeveless like that and I also have no real idea what her eye color actually is but I wanted to add those details in...for that extra....flair.

[Ferno]

Sorry if it seems like I've been super quiet or haven't drawn much in awhile, but I've just really been focused on my curent project. I'm still plowing through (more like trudging through) on it. I managed to finish chapter 2 which sorta starts not long after the first one ended.

 

I feel like I'm getting a little faster as time goes on, but I still feel like I'm moving very slowly with this. My goal is to just keep moving with it though, without giving myself time to think or fret too much over the details like I normally do.

 

Everything so far is on here, including chapter 1 in a larger size than what I posted a page or 2 ago: http://cheesecakeodyssey.tumblr.com/ In the future I'll probably keep updates and new pages mainly on there to keep from clogging up this thread too much, but I'll still post regular stuff about the project (character designs, general art of the story, ect.) in here in the future, along with all my usual stuff.

[Ferno]

Ok, I know I said I wouldn't post many more pages in this thread directly, but I just really liked how this chapter came out. I feel like I'm starting to get into a sort of groove to where I can work faster as time goes on, though I still feel like I'm moving at a snail's pace, but yeah chapter 3:

 

 

 

More soon, as well as more of my usual stuff.

[Milo]

That was really entertaining from a humorous standpoint. Favortie part was when Brie threw the fork Weapon of Legend at the dragon...only for it to have no effect. Keep it up.

[Ferno]

And here's some more general art again. I've sorta let it accumulate over the past few weeks, though even saying that, it's not a whole lot as most of my attention's been going to my current comic. But yeah:
 

 
Drew Shantae again, this time practicing more realistic anatomy and generally using my drawing style. 
 

 
Same with this one I did of Rottytops, though this one was more of a doodle.
 

Doodled Sky & Wrench too.
 

 
A humorous if a bit out-of-character doodle that I made mainly because I liked how you could sit on the chairs, and I just wanted an excuse to draw some of the gen 6 characters some more having finally played the game. 
 

 
My favorite of Kalo's Elite 4, and probably one of my new favorite pokemon-related characters in a long time, so I took my time on this one.

[Ferno]

So me and Jez have been going at it back n forth for a few weeks and made this:
 


It was pretty challenging to get things going due to my current lack of internet, otherwise the process probably would've been a bit faster, but everything worked out pretty good in the end. We really combined our strengths here, and put together alot of our artstyle’s aspects for this. The idea initially came up when I brought up possibly doing a collab of some sort and Jez pointed out that the protags of our stories are similar in more than a few ways (both have reddish hair and wield 'weapons' that're alive,) so we went with the combo seen above. The enemies they're fighting are crabs that resemble small chairs, which will show up in my comic at some point. The idea is that as the crabs are being defeated by Brie and Forq, their ghosts come out for Alice and Ghost Hammer to take care of. Jez's characters are from his comic, Phantasm Dyad as you all know, and mine are from Cheesecake Odyssey which is pretty much what I've been talking about alot in this thread recently.

 

This was really, really fun.

 

Also Jez's dA post and comments on the pic can be found on his page: http://jezmm.deviantart.com/art/F-J-Collab-Brie-and-Alice-433907183

[Ferno]

More general stuff:

 

 

 

Just some concepts of some of the creatures that live in the world of Cheesecake Odyssey. The thing I like the most about the project is that I get to put in alot of the crazy ideas I sometimes have that wouldn't fit in any of my other story's universes or concepts.

 

 

Sean's Original Character, Liz. Had fun drawing this and it should've been posted with the previous posts but I forgot to include it.

 

 

And I drew Anna because Solkia requested it. Still haven't seen the movie yet but yeah. I tried to do my own thing here with her appearance, though ultimately I don't think I got her likeness down as good as I'd hoped. I used alot of techniques and a more detailed variation of my art style that I usually skip or just don't use often for the sake of saving time, and also to sorta get a similar coloring style visually to the way the CG character looked, even though it's a 2D drawing.

[Silencer226]

I really like the way your style has evolved over time and you are also becoming very good at digital painting. I like your idea for the chair crab, although I think you should probably study chairs (and maybe crabs?) in real life. I only say that because I think you can make that design even better that way. That said it is decent for a concept. Your drawings are coming to life. Are you working on your comic right now or is it still in the planning/story board stages?

[Ferno]

I really like the way your style has evolved over time and you are also becoming very good at digital painting. I like your idea for the chair crab, although I think you should probably study chairs (and maybe crabs?) in real life. I only say that because I think you can make that design even better that way. That said it is decent for a concept. Your drawings are coming to life. Are you working on your comic right now or is it still in the planning/story board stages?

 

Thanks, and yeah I do need to study crabs more as they look more like chairs than crabs in the design. The Queen for example will probably have actual legs in the final, it's just that currently being without internet 80% of the time makes looking up references to things sorta difficult. That and like most of the stuff in my Cheesecake Odyssey project, everything is sorta designed to be easy to draw repeatedly, being made out of simple shapes and such. =p Also I am working on the comic right now, and all 3 chapters done so far can be found in this thread. (chapters 2 and 3 are spoiler tagged so they don't stretch the page as much as they were doing before.) Other than a few details and concepts I had drawn and written down a year or two ago, the story and it's universe are being developed as the project goes along, due to the fact that the way my mind works, I'd probably sit there trying to plan every last detail and then it'd be 2015 and I'd still be sitting there without having started anything.

[Mando-Whirl-Wind]

Loving cheese cake Odyssey, you have a nice style, hope I manage to get mine up to decent level eventualy

[LimeTH]

Your style and coloring are fantastic, and your character design is adorable.

 

I like the Cheesecake comic from what I've seen of it, too.

[ImPantsAtThis]

I gonna agree with everyone else -- the colouring is crazy good in your stuff. I really can't find much to fault: your lines are in the right place, the shading's sensible, the characters you draw have variety, etc.

 

It's all really, really good. Keep it up, mang.

[Voyant]

Ferno you got better very rapidly and I commend you for that, but stop hinding your hands in your art. Learn and force your self to draw them more or you will begin to limit yourself on expression.

 

Seriously there is nothign worse than being able to draw most things fine but struggle with hands when you start improving.