Battlin'Bots w/standing Robo

[riq]

I didn't want to start a new thread, so I'm adding this image to this old one.

My second giant Robo concept. Kindly rip this apart; if you so wish.

http://www.creativeion.com/doodles/thassan/standingbot.jpg

Couple of robots duking it out.. Done as a sample..

I don't love how the bot getting blasted is too stiff and a little wonky looking..

I'd love to hear any other crits.

riq.

http://www.creativeion.com/doodles/thassan/battlebots.jpg

[Random Chaos]

wow i think its great. the inking is beautiful, are you going to color it? cuz u put it in the finished section. that would make it awesome. the helicopter was a funny idea, but it makes the image a tad bit jumbled. makes me laugh thinkin what'll happen when they get hit though. nice work. how the hell di you get ur perspective's dead on?!!?

[|NTeRN]

AWESOME:D i love the linework

ps... your cameraman is gonna fall out of the helichopter

[JabMasta]

YEAH! I wanna see a colored version... :D

[Golanhall]

Very nice image.

Only crit is that your background is to detailed comparing to the foreground, but that's my idea on it ^^

[riq]

BTW, I didn't ink this.. I just pecilled it extremely tight and did some adjustments in photoshop.

Random Chaos - I was wondering about the Helicopter. And friend suggested it, and I felt that it gave the picture a bit more depth and scale. I layed out a detailed perspective grid and layed out the buildings on a separate page, but I pencilled the final image all on the same page. Took around a day and a half for the perspective.

INTeRN - You're right, that cameraman is dead. I wanted to have him filming the action, and this was me best idea for getting him a line of sight. And even if it's a little crazy I thought "what the hell", two mammoth robots tearing up the city is even sillier.

JabMasta - I getting the idea I should color this.. I initially planned this as a b&w, but I get some colors on it.

Gotanhall - You're right about the background being too detailed. I partially did this pic to practice backgrounds, so I blew my wad there. I got into a bit of a situation there, but I think if I add too much detail to the robots at this point, the whole picture will turn gray. Actually the background should just be calmed down.

[Schlo-mo]

wow, could you explain how you got the image to look like that without inking? Whats your photoshop process?

[riq]

Ok Schlo he's my process.

First scan your pencils, they should look black and crisp to the eye( the scanner always sees pencils as a gray no matter how dark they look to the eye)

In Photoshop, make a copy of your artwork layer( now you have two layers with the same linework), and select multiply for the top layer. If it's not dark enough, make another copy of the top layer( that's set to multiply).

You can then adjust the transparency of your top layers( that are set to multiply)

If you don't like the final results, start from the beginning. You can adjust the brightness and contrast( this is where I get my best results), or use some other settings.

I've found that using the layer adjustment's Brightnetss/Contrast gives much cleaner result than just using Brightness/Contrast for the whole image.

This technique even works if you just want to darken up a pencil sketch without changin the feel too much.

hope this helps,

riq.

[Schlo-mo]

Thanks alot, works a treat :D