The topic this week on the This Week Jam on R3 is Trixie, Speed Racer’s racy girlfriend!

It’s no secret I like the monkey best. So sadly, Speed underestimated our pal Chim… to his own chagrin.

Hope you like it!

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Here you go, gang:

New Line art coloring in Photoshop:

1) Take line art and make it a RGB file

2) Go to Channels

3) In Channels, copy “Blue” channel by dragging Blue Channel

to the duplicate icon.

4) Invert new Channel (Ctrl – I or Command – I)

5) Go back to layers > Create new layer > name it “Lines” or

something similar. Layer should be transparent.

6) Select new layer and go to SELECT > Load Selection.

7) Pick the Blue Channel copy listed

Fill selection with black

9) Now create new layers below the “Lines” layer and start coloring.

That’s the basics of the Photoshop tutorial I got off the ‘Net. With this technique, though, your paint bucket tool is pretty much useless. You have to paint large sections with your brush instead of just clicking the paint bucket and filling a character’s face area, for example.

So I’ve added something more to this tutorial that will help increase the use of the paint bucket area in certain sections of your illustration.

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10) After step 8, ignore step 9.

11) In your layers, you should only have the “fill layer” you just created. If you have any other layer – say a “background layer” – go ahead and delete them.

12) Now, duplicate the “Fill layer”. You should now have two line layers with a transparent background (checkerboard).

13) Create a new layer and fill it all white.

14) Click the “eye” icon next to one of the “fill layers” – making it invisible.

15) Now, make sure your white layer is at the bottom of your layer set. Your layers may look something like this:

Fill layer (with the eye icon clicked off so it’s invisible)

Fill layer (visible)

White layer (the entire layer needs to be white)

16) Now, using your layer preferences, select “merge visible”. This will combine the visible “fill layer” with the white layer background. make sure this new merged layer is at the bottom of your layer stack.

17) Make the invisible “fill layer” visible.

18) Make sure you have the bottom layer (the combined “fill and white layers”) selected. That’s your “color” layer. Once it’s selected, choose your tool of choice and start painting in Photoshop. In certain areas, your paint bucket tool will help you color large areas much faster then painting an entire area with a brush.

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Oh here we go again, the horror of me trying to draw cartoony characters.

Vlad

Trixie, girlfriend of Speed Racer:

http://www.picubed.com/alisachan/trixie.jpg

http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1 … 112419.jpg

V

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This was done for the character jam on the Legend of VGS elistas group, dedicated to videogame babes.

The character is from Resident Evil 4.

Out of ammo.

Broke a heel.

Cornered.

Screwed!

Enjoy!

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This was done for the This Week jam.

Lady Death, one of the big, er, guns, of 90′s T&A comics…

I have to be honest, the book was not my bag. But as far as the concept of an undead-esque woman who has traded her soul for eternal life, with a penchant for edged weapons and emasculation of her opponents, I thought I might try something a little more contemporary. I was aiming for the femme fatale at the bar who broadcasts bad news with her gaze. Pretty but with unsavory intentions. So there you go: My TRDL redesign of Lady Death.

Enjoy!

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Know nothing about this one.

V

http://www.ladydeath.net/covers/oneshot.html

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This was done for the This Week jam on the R3 Forum.

We’ve had several interesting pieces contributed so far, and what’s been interesting is that everyone who’s made one for the jam has either tried something new, or pushed the boundaries of what we might come to expect from these weekly jams. It’s been a great one so far. For my part, I was thinking about the legend of Troy, and how she is portrayed differently in different interpretations of the myth, depending on the source, either the object of beauty and desire, or a commodity in a matriarchal inheritance system. Either way, in the myth, many Greeks died in her name, and this was the root of my illustration.

Enjoy!

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Really excited about this one. We are trying to bring more non comic characters into the This Week. Hopefully this will spark interest with even more talented artists.

Vlad

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This was done for the This Week jam on the R3 Forum.

I’ve been neck-deep in wrapping up commissions over the holidays and beginning my 2006 work, so I haven’t had as much time to work on some fun side stuff… but our This Week jam has resumed this week on the R3 Forum, and our character for the week is Cammy from Street Fighter… we’ve already got several contributions, and here’s mine:

Here’s Cammy preparing a ‘Cannon Spike’ super button smashing move.

Jump forward+ QCB (quarter-circle back) + Kick.

And no, I don’t memorize many combos, and certainly not for more than a few hours at a time. I looked it up!

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Here is this week’s selection, a little early. I’m away this week and will miss this one, but the rest of you have fun, I expect to see loads of great art when I come back.

Vlad

http://www.sfgalleries.net/art/sfa3/ser … _Cammy.jpg

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