Second Acrobaleno

Here's Skull, the second Acrobaleno. The outline still bothers me though. Really need to figure out what's the best way to do outline in Illustrator.

First Attempt at Illustrator CS4

I kind of see how Illustrator works now. But I still need to figure out how to control the strokes better...Sometimes it just smooths way too much. And when I erase certain parts of a line, it some how erases more than I want or it automatically makes my line thinner. But here's the colored version of Colonello, which after all other Acrobalenos, I will put it into my Tsuna background picture. it'll be a big project because just outlining and coloring took pretty much all day today. I need to do this more often to get efficient at it.

Drawing it...

Ok, I actually ended up just drawing the Acrobaleno instead of using Illustrator (since I don't know how to use it yet). Now i'm facing the decision to either do it watercolor style, or leave it as a sketch but with the corresponding color of the Acrobaleno.

Note to self: Import sketch, use Adjustments -> Color Balance.

Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn Project

For my next project, I plan to do Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn, but I haven't decided how I want to approach this. Do I want to learn Illustrator and do my Acrobaleno's using Ai? Or do I want to just draw it like always? BTW, this background was semi-traced using a scene in the ending song of the anime as reference. It's used to save time and since I had planned to use it as a light colored background, I didn't want to spend time to do an all-up sketch. But I also tested the lightings and lens flare effects in Photoshop though.

Echizen Ryoma Completed

Another drawing done. This one is of Echizen Ryoma from The Prince of Tennis. Reference used was Shining Clear Card Vol. 5 card. I changed the clothings a little bit because his checkered shirt was too much for me to handle in drawing it. I'm still having trouble with line thickness as it's quite obvious with the right arm sleeve. Practice practice practice!!! I really wish I can learn Illustrator for vector illustration.

Next Project: Ryoma Echizen

Here's my next project: Ryoma Echizen from The Prince of Tennis. I have this really small "Rare" card that I'm using as reference. I've never drawn this style of anime character before so it'll be a first. It can't always be Dragonball. :) I started with very rough sketch of head shape, and body. Then I added a layer and started just really drawing the facial features and hair. I only drew the head so far.

First Anime Illustration Complete!

Here's the final version of my Dragonball illustration. I decided not to do an actual background as I'm not good enough yet. Maybe in the future as I have the background as a separate layer!