Weekly news #18

Hi David. Thanks for your reply and explanations! Wow each panel is 4h to 10h long? So by any means, you're doing all the details on each panels then move to another one? That's really a great efforts! By any means, even you're taking time to reply to me with detailed explanations & information throughout as well. Truly David, you are a humble and great artist! It's pretty RARE we have such a noble one like you. You've totally proven yourself and even to me to start becoming a 'savior' in this cruel artistic world. Respect! I'll definitely catch you up with my fan-art of Pepper (and of course Carrot!) and I (hope) you could even repost that once it's done! ^^ Thank you very much for your time and God bless all of things you're working through! Amen!

David Revoy

Hey Dreamslandia, Thank you for the encouragement to keep posting sketches! About the time, I'm still in a fork of 4h to 10h per panel ( or more, that's why I try to write story with around 25 panels , to have 100h min and 250h max per story ). It depends the composition and amount of characters in the panel, backgrounds details, and lighting in a scene. The 'speedpainting then detailing' workflow is the longer one. Especially on characters. It's hard to layout the correct pose, expression and mimic with speedpainting, so there is a big cleaning during the detailing ( a big step of trial and error, with many strokes corrected , unused, removed ). For a landscape ( especially organic and natural ) 'speedpainting then detailing' workflow is faster ; it's easy to block big shapes and just add subvolumes to it, and detail on the top. Painting the house of Pepper is not really complex this way. For characters and facial expressions, having a solid drawing or sketch ; then coloring under the lines, then painting-over the overall is faster and predictible. So, all in all, I'm moving to an hybrid workflow depending the scene , but I'll stick to draw on paper ( I hope ). Drawing on paper is full of constrain but helps me to think a bit more prior to paint or draw. I hope all this informations are not too confusing , and you'll find good thing to pick from it to build your own workflow.

Dear David Revoy, you've been working so hard to bring Pepper & Carrot to life! And it was amazing to see those scanned sketches to inspire me more with traditional drawings. I'm a new fan of yours and I apologize to let you know that my 'gift' will be delayed after what I asked before where to put my fan-art. By any means, please keep doing the posts with sketches. It's really inspiring! And also what you share deserves more attention! (And new patrons of course!!) Good luck on your journey. But I have something in mind, if this doesn't bothered you; how much is your approximately time to do the full colored ones? And which ones is the faster way to achieve (speed painting to paint over or anything else)?

David Revoy

Thank you Allan :)

Allan Zieser

I love the amount of planning and design work you put into your characters it makes them stand apart. :)

David Revoy

Thank you. Yes, growing and try to make the Hereva Studio is still the main target. Yes, I'll keep sending exclusive bonus to Patron each week, as I do now ; with fresh news and sketches about the next episodes. I'll just release the best-of online on the website after each episode ( after a month or more ). Yes, no paywall ; I must take care of this :-) Thank you for your time and advices.

Many thanks, but you are doing all the work, so leaving a comment is the minimum to do, I think. :-) I think thats a good idea, so you can reach more people, which are passing by on your side. And so you may get more potential patrons and then we get more artwork from you. :-) (I'm waiting for Hereva Studio) Is that the right way to understand your intention? I'm also ok with the "weekly bonus" to be patron exklusive (for a little time). That's open source and no paywall! Yeah!

David Revoy

Thank you Stephan for feedback about the pencil artwork , and many thanks also in general for often letting a little comment here. I need an advice ; I plan to start soon a new 'weekly' thing : Put the 'weekly news' ( the text / diary ) on the blog , public ; and keep here the 'weekly bonus' only ( a montage of fresh sketch, video, or work-in-progress ). I also plan to release the weekly bonus on main website after a month or two , when I like it and want to share it. What do you think if I apply this change ?

As always a very good work! Pepper looks really great and the others too! I like!