The Overly Problematic Networking Attempt pt.6

       So, after deciding to just go ahead and send the drawings, with a letter of course, I discovered that I could not find a fan mail address for Mike, Bryan, Legend of Korra, or Nickelodeon.  In fact I have been unable to find a mailing address at all.  I don't know if it I am missing something obvious, or it is just that difficult.

       Long story I started this project in September.  As of November 26 at 5:26 p.m. I have these waiting to be mailed as soon as I can find a mailing address.

   

       
         By now Gangam Style has really taken off and the joke has become old.  What I was hoping would be an original Idea has become one out of a million. Also I still haven't been able to mail the damn things off yet. But that is how it goes sometimes.

The Overly Problematic Networking Attempt pt.5

            Now for the problems with coloring it.  When I had planned this project out I was under the assumption that I would be able to get into the SCAD library as an Alumni. Thus I could use the Cintiqs there  while I was still able to log into the computers.  Not so since I am not an Alumni and still need to retake classes.  So after much deliberation I decided to go ahead and color it with a mouse on my computer.  Needless to say it was very frustrating and time consuming.  However, I did it.

         Since then I realized that I could "sneak" into some of the SCAD buildings, sadly that did not occur to me at the time. 

             I printed these off, however the printing quality is not as good as I would like and I have been debating whether to wait to afford to professionally print it.  Giving it has been so long I have decided to just go a head and send it since the joke is so old that is not as good as when I first came up with it.  Sadly,t here are still problems.

The Overly Problematic Networking Attempt pt.4

          So, here is where outside influences start to affect my production.  During the summer I lost all of my inking supplies.  I kept them in a pencil bag for easy storage and portability, also at the time I was living off of the tail end of my loans to finish what I thought was my final class.  So needless to say I only bought what I needed for class, which was a .3 Copic tech pen and some 2 sized microns for story boarding.

          At the time of inking for the Korra fan art, I was living off of my parents while trying to get a job.  However I really did not want to use a mechanical line for this image.  I felt it would look better with a lot of line width, so I went and bought a size 2 Winsor Newton Series 7. That was a bad idea.  I overestimated how much line width I could play with, and that the brush size size is too big for me to get details while maintaining control.  So the inks wound up looking like this.

          

           They needed to be redone.  I also noticed that there was nothing to show the water in the background and some other issues I can't remember at the moment. So I went and redid my pencils.

          Then, since I couldn't afford to buy a new brush, I went ahead and inked them with my tech pen which is what I had hoped to avoid in the first place.

               Next up, the issues with coloring.

The Overly Problematic Networking Attempt pt. 3

Alright, the next thing that I did was I blew up my thumbnails for blue lines and played with them a little in Photoshop, so that they looked like so.

I manipulated this a little in Photoshop so that the movement of the body worked better for the composition.

I kept this one as is because I felt that it worked.

I then took the second image and went to work on turning it into a final penciled image. Here is the tight rough, finalized. 

I then blue lined it and and made a final penciled image at full size on 11 x 17 Bristol.

At this point Gangam style really started to take off and I wanted to get it finished before the joke became old. So looking at how long this was taking me, it had been at a week since I started, I decided to just print to copies of this and send them instead of two separate images.  

Next up Inking, and the frustrations begin.