The Art of Blokfort

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April 19th, 2017

by Blokfort on April 19, 2017 at 9:00 pm

Not much to say, other than coloring woes.

After getting some feedback on the Lulu drawing, I went back and redrew pretty much the whole thing. I haven’t worked on anymore comic tumbnails since I actually had a project that a few people were looking forward to seeing completed.though, I’ve hit that point again where I feel like inking the piece is a tremendous waste of time, as it feels like I don’t actually learn anything from doing that. I think I  want to be able to just jump right into coloring, but every time I try, the colors always seem like the wrong choice. Maybe the material I’m working with is just too difficult for me right now? Should I try grey-scale first? Maybe I need to take a class or two for this stuff, heh.

Still watching those Kienan Lafferty videos though.

I’ll try uploading artwork as I clear certain “milestones” on it to twitter, tumblr, etc., as a way to get used to posting things regularly too. Except Facebook. Facebook is a nightmare for pictures.

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April 17th, 2017

by Blokfort on April 17, 2017 at 9:00 pm

I have a few pages worth of thumbnails now for the comic, which I am Calling “Old as Ice.” I didn’t actually realize it had some play on words until a little while after, but originally it was to emphasize  certain plot points in the story that I have so far. Ideally I’d be updating the comic every Monday, Wednesday, Friday (at 12:00 am EST), but first I need to plan out how each page will look like and how the story will flow. I’m not quite sure how I’d like overall story to look like form a book standpoint, will it have chapters, will it have volumes, I have no idea right now and it’s not really my concern a the moment.  Although, for a first “goal” I’d like to get at least 20 pages or so completed before I release them to the world. If I were to write the entire story out in one paragraph or less, then it would sound like this

“A middle-aged leader of a group of archeologists travel an icy globe in search of a lost rune civilization. As time goes by with bits and pieces of relics discovered, and with certain rival factions arising, conflicts will appear and settle for various reasons. Since the nature of the story is search and discovery (or destroy), non-materialistic valuables such as information can decide everything”

I’ve never written a story before so writing this out for myself has actually helped immensely for trying to figure out what happens next. Course, there’s still a lot of “well, let’s just make them do this.” just to move the story along, but hey it works. Right?

Artwise, I’ve started watching these videos from a guy named Kienan Lafferty on youtube with some really nice in-depth analysis for what he does when he is “arting.” So far he’s got more than 300 videos all covering different specific things like, how to fiddle with line widths, or why you shouldn’t draw like this, or avoiding tangents, or figureing out colors from using the background, and so on. I have tried looking up “hau 2 cuhler” videos before, but most of the time they have just been bland, not specific, too specific (in terms of using tools), or just bad. It probably doesn’t help that most of those people are using photoshop, whereas I’m using ProCreate on the iPad.

So finding this goldmine of art information is prity gud.

And here’s this weekends gallery. I tried redrawing Regillix Marrowdawn (a previous character someone request me draw before) with the new inking brush and I was once again confirming to myself that I had a wonderful inking brush. “It just works” is really the best way I can put it.

Now I just HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO COLOR GOD DAMN IT. I’m just really not sure how to tackle this! At the moment, I just throw in the colors that match the outfit. That doesn’t really get me anywhere though.

I’m also redoing Lulu, after getting some feedback from other people.

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Commissions Info

by Blokfort on April 12, 2017 at 9:01 pm

Well, there’s not much to explain really, as everything is clearly shown in the image above, but I will explain the “Experimental” part.

The “Experimental” column is there for me to try out new coloring techniques, as I’m still learning how to color properly. It does not cost anything extra from Flat Colors, but it is possible it will not turn out as well as you or I would hope. It will also take slightly longer to complete. Background is optional as well.

In case you can’t see the image above, click [HERE]

For more examples, check out the gallery below! I will add more examples as time goes on.

You can contact me at blokfortcommissions@gmail.com for more info, or just input your email and a message below the gallery.

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April 12th, 2017

by Blokfort on April 12, 2017 at 9:00 pm

Mostly been working on the “Commissions Info” page which will be uploaded in about a minute. You should go check that out!

I’ve finally hit a good foundation with my artwork. I actually feel pretty happy with how things look and feel. Coloring is still an issue, and some of the line art could be improved in certain spots, but overall I give myself a 7/10 rating. going from ‘sketchy’ sketch, to a cleaner sketch, to line art, to flat color is a pretty easy process for me to do now. All I have to do now is find things to draw! It’s just that easy! Right?

Comic Update: I’m still working on putting bits and pieces together, but I decided to NOT make a script, because I have no idea how to do that. I’m just going to jump right into making thumbnails and comic pages and try to make the story elements react in logical ways. I have a wonderful world set up, I just need characters and such to torture and harm… I mean, to write about, heh.

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April 10th, 2017

by Blokfort on April 10, 2017 at 9:00 pm

I have come to the decision to make a webcomic. How far it will go, and how many other stories will be made, I have no idea right now. I cannot see that far into the future after all. What is clear to me however is that I currently do not actually know what to do next. Since the start of April, it has become a struggle to come up with characters to draw, and not everyone will actually care to the point of asking me to draw something for them. I’m simply “not good enough” for that kind of thing, and I need to actually work on something people may be interested in. So, what is it that people are interested in? Well, people like a story, or something new, or something they know will be waiting for them when they open a page or something along those lines. I’m no economist or some magical stock-market wizard to know exactly what people want to consume for themselves, but I do know people like to read comics. They are simple, easy to read, and usually get the point across quickly.

There are many comics on the web for free viewing and many people enjoy reading them. I have actually tried in the past to make a comic or two, but I didn’t have the basic understanding of how to even draw a character in an appealing way. Well, I have that knowledge now, or so I’d like to think. Doing a comic also let’s me work on other things, like making a concise effort to draw a character in a specific way or drawing them in scenery, which is something I’ve been neglecting for a long time now.

It has been my goal for a long time to make a living off of my artwork in some form, be it character commissions or stories or whatever. I never actually knew what I specifically what wanted to do within artwork itself however. You might say “well, who’s an artist you admire, see what they do.” well, I could give you a long list of artists I follow at that point, but they all do completely different types of work. Some do character commissions, some do paintings, some do designs, some work in studios of certain types, I can’t just pick one and say “this is it.” But, I do know I want something. It feels rewarding to create and have people enjoy it.

So, with that in mind, I plan to organize my thoughts and come up with some sort of “script” for this story I have. Not sure how long the story will run, or when I’ll be posting pages, or what the story might turn out like, or this and that and that and this.

I also plan to stream again. Streaming helps me focus on the task at hand, rather than get distracted and go onto Reddit or something. At the moment I can’t actually stream anything comic related, as I’m still trying to “build the background” so to speak, but I’ll still draw characters and such. For this week I’ll be making even more sketch examples, and doing some line art. Not terribly to do line art, but that’s how it goes sometimes. You can follow my stream at twitch.tv/blokfort though I’m not sure when exactly I’ll start again, heh. Ideally, I’d be streaming at 1pm CST to 8pm CST

I’m also going to try posting on Tumblr and Twitter (at blokfort.tumblr.com and twitter.com/blokfort ) with two posts. One auto post that WordPress does with a brief excerpt summary of that day, and another post with all the artwork that’s was shown. That way if you just want to see the artwork, that will be an option.

(I just barely finished the re-inking of the leprechaun mage girl in time, WHEW)

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