Sam Fisher Drawing- Conviction Style | Forums

[Melonie]

I've been getting a lot of requests asking about the process of my work, and since I already have a lineart tutorial for how I do my digital work, I wanted to show the process for my traditional art as well. And who better to draw than the coolest game character in the world? Sam Fisher, of course! I start off extremely sloppy and ugly with my drawings, though.

Tools: Wacom Intuos 4 Medium tablet, Photoshop CS3, a light box, printer paper, and a mechanic pencil.

Step 1: Basic shapes laid out in photoshop, establish the pose. I didn't use a pose reference for this, so the anatomy isn't perfect, just bear with me here.




Step 2: Make a new layer, outline the first layer with a much thinner brush, and start adding some details. Then change the inks red.



Step 3: Print the red inks on paper, put on top of the light box with a clean sheet of paper over it, and trace it with pencil. It's much easier for me to add more details by hand than on the computer.



Still not done yet. I need to clean it up, fine tune some things, and fix some of the problem areas. Then I'll color it on photoshop and show a step by step process of that as well.

[stavros_27]

That is pretty awesome, I wish I could draw. These templates are cool. Don't forget the bandage/wrap on the hand

[harbi-117]

That's impressive! Excellent job!

looking forward to the final version.

[Jazz117Volkov]

Nice work

I don't want to sound critical, so please don't get offended, but he looks a tad skinny.

[Melonie]

Originally posted by Jazz_117:
Nice work

I don't want to sound critical, so please don't get offended, but he looks a tad skinny.

Thanks so much, everyone.

No worries at all Jazz, you're not being too critical. I think you may be right. I originally drew him too big (like a comic book hero ), so I tried to fix it, but perhaps over compensated?

I'll tweak it and see about making him a little bigger, thanks!

[oO_ShadowFox_Oo]

Nice work, but things I notice:

- His left shoulder shouldn't have such an emphasised line all of the way around, especially where his should meets his collar bone. I can understand that it represents the stitching, but your heaving comic styled lining makes it look out of place. That shoulder is also a little oversized in comparison to the other one and throws the piece a little off balance.

- The way Sam is holding his gun looks like he's gripping it very high up, as if the V of his thumb/forefinger is up over the rear area where the upper lip of the gun protects the hammer (I'm no gunsmith, so excuse my makeshift description if it makes sense!)

- His left hand looks slightly mis-shapen. Hands are what I find the hardest aswell, but I think it's from the angle of his forearm and the way it flows into the hand. The angle doesn't look natural and I think the angle of your knuckle alignment line is what's throwing it a little off. It should be going about parallel (or so, probably a bit less) to the line of cargo pocket on his pants and this should realign the hand a little better.

- His right nostril also looks a little out of place. I know you had to emphasise it where it is because of the heavy line coming from his mouth definition on that side of his face, but it kind of throws his face a little out.

- Some zipper detail up around the neck of jumper would look good.

- He's missing his bandage

- His watch is see through.

And that's about it. He does look a little old, which seems a bit out of place with the funky new clothes, but I'm not objected to an old looking Fisher. His hair looks great and I really like your style over all!

Any plans to color it?

[Melonie]

Thanks for all the advice. I agree with most of it. The reason why it has the thick comic style lines is because comics are my forte, that was intentional. And I made Sam look old because he is old.

Everything else you're right on with, especially regarding the gun. I had a very hard time with that. Like I said before, I drew the pose without a reference, so it's got all kinds of problems with it. If I were serious about it, this would still be considered a roughdraft, and I'd redo a lot of things, but being as I have eight pages of a comic to finish, on a deadline, I'm going to let this one be. I still might color it for fun.

You'll definitely see more SC art from me, though. Thanks for all the encouragement and advice, I really appreciate it.

[davidov]

It looks sweet. (y) It's been a while since people have shown off their talents on the forum.

[Pacer1988]

Originally posted by davidov:
It looks sweet. (y) It's been a while since people have shown off their talents on the forum.

I can hold my breath for 10 minutes!

[Gypsy816]

Excellent work as always Melonie.