I made another picture. This time, I seperated the pic into several steps, showing my process.
The tools I use for making these pictures are:
1. 0.7 mm mechanical pencil
2. Pink eraser
3. Sharpie (recently I've been using a sharpie pen)
4. MS Paint (editting lineart, coloring)
5. Sony Vegas 7.0 (taking screenshots)
6. Photoshop CS2 (getting the right colors from screenshots using eyedropper)
7. Windows Media Player (to look at footage for reference)
While drawing the picture, I do use references to the species I'm drawing, in this case, a fastrunner (or oviraptor).
Fastrunner reference 1:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf...Fastrunner1.jpgFastrunner reference 2:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf...Fastrunner2.jpgFastrunner reference 3:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf...Fastrunner3.jpgUsing pictures like these, I can then begin the process of drawing the picture, which starts off as simple shapes and ends up with the completed lineart.
Step 1:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf.../Strutstep1.jpgStep 2:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf.../Strutstep2.jpgStep 3:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf.../Strutstep3.jpgStep 4:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf.../Strutstep4.jpgStep 5:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf.../Strutstep5.jpgI then use references to the character in their original species, such as this one:
Strut reference:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf...on/Strutpic.jpgUsing that, I am able to get the colors for Strut. Then using references for both Strut and a fastrunner, I can proceed to color the lineart. When deciding on the pattern, I use a mixture of a fastrunner's pattern and Strut's pattern.
Step 6:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf...Strutstep6a.jpgStep 7:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf...Strutstep7a.jpgAnd there you have it. These are the steps I take to completing these pictures.
Edit: I do realize I forgot to add in the feathers on the arms. I realized my mistake too late, but decided that Strut looked fine without the feathers on the arms, so I decided not to try to correct it.
Edit 2: Corrected a coloring mistake. Strut looked too much like Ozzie.