Tag: the hues

A weird thing I find incredibly helpful for art/writing.

Alex Heberling

rosalarian:

batlesbo:

deadcantdraw:

Eplans.com is a website that sellsĀ blueprintsĀ for houses.Ā 

This might not seem that helpful but if you want a characters house you can make selections based on what sort of house you want them to live in.Ā 

Then browse through theĀ resultsĀ and find the house you want. Then you can view the blueprints and have a room layout for that house, which can help with visualising the space they live in.Ā 

It makesĀ describingĀ generic homes so much easier.

Oooooh, thatā€™s awesome! I was actually thinking about that a few days ago, how it would be splendid to have a website do the work and plan houses for you. Iā€™m no decorator and need these references.

Thanks :)

I have some basic architecture programs that I use to design houses from scratch but this might be even better (what with me not being an actual architect). But I will say having a floor plan to work from ABSOLUTELYĀ improvesĀ art and writing when it comes to detailing the scenery.

This will be VERY useful to me, as the first chapter of the Hues takes place almost entirely within Sami’s house…

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Alex Heberling

[Image: A side-by-side comparison of a comic panel lettered digital by hand vs. lettered with a font.]

I’m trying to make this comic as thoroughly mine as I can.

I’ve been interested in doing my own lettering for The Hues, as opposed to using the font tool, which I did for Garanos.Ā  As a parenthetical, I hand letter Alex’s Guide, but that’s mostly because it’s all natural media, apart from the coloring.Ā  I’ve never properly “learned” lettering in the classical sense, and a majority of searching for a tutorial led to hand lettering with pen and paper.

However, this three part series on Making Comics was really helpful getting me started in digital hand lettering!Ā  Above are my results, compared to the same panel lettered with the type tool and my old technique for making word balloons.Ā  On the left, the balloons are drawn with vectors, and on the right, they’re drawn freehand with the lasso tool.

I may look back at these letters in a year and cringe at how they look, but I’m really happy with how it changes the page, especially with the nicer word bubbles.

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Alex Heberling

Four years of art school, 8 years of cartooning, and over a decade using Photoshop, all adding up to creating a filter effect to make something look like it was filmed on a crappy laptop webcam and uploaded to YouTube at 240p.

WHAT AM I DOING I DON’T EVEN

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Alex Heberling

[Image: Colored pencil drawing of Hue Spectrum on dark brown paper.]

I got a lot of drawing done during the slow periods at Youmacon!

Here’s a drawing of Hue Spectrum with colored pencils and sharpie on brown card stock. When I first started drawing and writing The Hues back in 1998, I did all my artwork with markers and colored pencils. 14 years and an art degree in digital media later, I feel like I’ve come full circle in drawing these characters again in their new forms with these pencils. (I seriously still have every colored pencil I’ve owned since junior high in a giant pencil box. It is awesome.)

I’m not 100% settled on what role the Hues’ uniforms will take on in the 2013 version, but I drew the girls in them anyway, just for fun. :)

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Alex Heberling

[Image: a huge chart of seven female characters in 25 expressions each.]

25 Expressions: The Hues by =alex-heberling

Turns out it didn’t take very long at all!

WHAT HAVE I DONE?! Click through to download for maximum scrutiny. <3

My love for charts is a little scary sometimes. But this is a helpful tool for me!

Having all the girls laid out like this helps me compare and contrast expressions. I think I did a pretty good job of not giving every girl the same expression for every prompt across the board.

There are certainly improvements I can make, but I’m pretty proud of the work I’ve done. :D