Stroke 3: Magic Mechanics

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things."

I was actually trying to think of something completely unrelated to this picture when I drew it yesterday.  But Technomage Ebony butted in and loitered instead. I was complring worlds of magic to worlds of science, and of course, this ended up with technomages, such as the ones in Babylon 5. Though this picture doesn't look like them, I gave up and drew it anyway. This is a mix up, of sorts, between my version of Ebony from STC, technomages, and Egyptian type clothing :P

Oh, and a lot of glow.

Progress image below. It's been shrunk, but you get the idea.

1. I pencilled then inked the image traditionally, then scanned it in. I gave it a blue screen.

2. I decided to keep the black lineart too, and put them together.

3. simple gradient background.

4. Flat colours

5. Shading

6. The glowy bits on Ebony and the stick

7. Added a whole load of glow using photoshop filters, a border and some sparkly shapes to add some more to the image than just having the simple background.

Stroke 1: Testing testing 1-2-3

"Is this thing on?"

Hai there. If you're looking at this blog, it means you've either found me through links on my DA gallery or forums, or you've stumbled over it on a random internet trawl XD

This is Brushtail, so named because of my namesake original character; Feniiku Lumaris; has a brush-like tuft on the end of her tail. The idea of this blog is to show some of my artwork and comics and sometimes my writing that never makes it to places like DeviantART or fanfiction.net, or anywhere else. I'll be showing both WIP and finals, random doodles, and watever else comes to mind here, so feel free to bookmark if you wanna look ^_^


There's not really a set update schedule, bug I expect it to be pretty regular, as I have a lot of blather you guys don't see :P

For an example, here, have a progression image of the Sonic one you see above :)

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1- Black background
2- basic guide lines
3- black lines
4- flat colours
5- shading
After step 5, I removed the background to make the image transparent ^_^

Anyway, I hope you come back for more art and writing and stuff later! And who knows, you might catch some sneak previews from the various comics I have on DA ;)