Found my old graphics tablet

[ascottk]

I found my cheapass kb gear jam studio tablet. I rarely used it because quite honestly it sucks. But I figured it'll be useful for rigging in Maya & it works pretty well. So in order to get used to it I went into photoshop & opened a reference photo:

 

Then did a freehand paint. The only thing I did was use the colors from the original photo (because I got tired of trying to match the colors by eye). First I did a rough sketch of the background in the base layer in photoshop (that's the easy part since the background was blurry). Then on a new layer I just kept adding on more details:

It's not done yet. It needs more shadows, more of the blurred background people, some more detail, and sharpening the edges. My version looks more like Gimli . . . & he has no neck . . .

 

I do pretty well with a photo references so I wondered what would happen if the reference was a sketch with no color or a real world reference?

 

& enter Springheel's Elite Pagan concept drawing (those are cool designs for tattoos, Spring!):

 

I'm still adding more detail and shading:

 

I think the hardest part was trying to duplicate the designs & working on the face. & I missed a few tattoos.

 

Even though this tablet is cheap & not very sensitive, I wonder why I don't use it more often! I never had such control working with computer graphics before. It is miles above using a mouse, that's for sure

[Mortem Desino]

Yeah, I rescued a 12"x12" wacom tablet from a local university. Their tech dept was throwing it away because they couldn't find a power supply for it! I had fun rigging a mechanism to attach it to and power it by my laptop.