AFTER SEYING THIS KIND OF AMAZING EXTRAORDINARY FULL RENDERED ARTWORKS YOURS ...
MAN Im Sure YOU EXPECIALLY ..

... can Do with a cintiq As good things as Oils ... SO WHY NOT !?
( Just using Same layering / smudging Techniques and Corel Painter [link] Wich is the best software for oil Smudging techniques In Digital ... [link]

... And Expecialy your Game Motion Books Readers will THANK YOU !
As Lines Are not So Pleasent to be seen In a motion book format as True volumetric oil like Artworks ...

Know that :
Oil like Artworks Are the Perfect Art Format for MOTION BOOKS
- Because can be seen with Most defenition And in full glory be in a Iphone or Ipad or Web Viewing ...

- Were in contrary lines End up be noisy / lacking of defenition and dirty in those formats ...

- Comics on PAPER Do well with LINES BASED Artwork ... ... BUT NOT ON DIGITAL ... WERE OILS With its Almost 3d ARTISTIC VOLUMETRIC DEFENITION REIGN You know ...

But im sure It will be alot Dificult to Explain That in a Understandable manner to all those "old school comics" artists that Migrate to digital ...

Just thinking here that Would be easy to migrate its OILS to MOTION BOOK ... WitHE xtraordinary and extreme sucessefull Full viewer pleasure result ...

I would not say the same to Expecialy in Small formats ...

But I think The Biggest Problem As Artist Going to DIgital is You beying too much Atached to LINES...
For your own good you know ... : /

In my Humble 20 years of art ... i can Only Say that ...
( The Old School of Comics "just" with pure Inks lines / Can make Raw Standalone Fantastic MAster pieçes ...

... But Spoiled True "emotional art" in Everything ... Im Afraid to say ... )

There is Nothing like the "Emotional QUality of True Painted Art / Of a REalistic OIL ... To Capture the Viewer
AND THAT Even in Digital!

If we go about WHat is ART or What is a Sketch ...

WELL INK ART / Art with Lines Is just 1 Half Unfinished Degree of a REAL MASTERPIEÇE
/ INK is just the first of the 6 Stages of a TRUE QUALITY ART [link]

That is a complete Ageless True!

And IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT ...
If you go Full SHade Painting You Do not loose Anything of the INK details ...
.. and its not That Dificult If you use the Grayscale WitH COlor Overlaying method [link]
Were As at least 60% of the Work is all done in Grayscale ...
And the lines can helpto give defenition To the "Chiaro escuro" and "Esfumato"...

And seriously is So easy to aply that kind of Technique in DIGITAL ...

The Mith that Pencil drawing + Ink + Flat colors is Faster than "Full Painted Artwork" ...
Its ACtualy not true if you Aply Just the Full Volumetric Realistic BLack&White SHade + Color Overlaying Technique ..

On oils In the Renascentism / people Aplyed That Technique In Underpainting [link] Chiaro Escuro Grisaille & Verdatio [link]

You can See expecialy the Practices of Grissaile technique [link] Wich basicaly consiste on Doing it all In Grayscale first [link] Then only after all the work done with FulL volumetric and almost finished in grayscale / aply color with Glasing [link]

But the Base Grisaille does it all everything ...
Most of all the works of Old Masters were done in this way [link] To make this amazing Results be achieved more easy [link]

Now this is the Kind of REAL ART ...
With better Thinking of Techniques i was talking about ...

Joining Old SChool To New Schools of Digital Art ...
...even more easily Than "inking" and having million ink lines that take so much time to do / You Can just DO the Full "Pencil draw with full shades & volumetrics Then Scan , Then With a Wacom Cintiq Soft AirBrush Above / And Add Water Smudge Paint to make the Full Grisaille as The Old Masters in oil Did , Then its just to Overlay Glases in Color Digitaly ...

And that way WIth Grisaile GrayScale / One can Have more easily FULL PAINTED master pieçes That Take Reaaly Less time, or as much as Pencil Inking Coloring ... Just need to "Pencil / Grayscale Improve - Overlay Glase COloring Digitaly ..

The Old School Pencil [link] to Inks [link] to Flat colors [link] Inspite of all the efforts and many hours Doesnt even reach Half of the Artistic Quality IT SHOULD ....

Gnomon Workshops Touch alot on that if you Know Traditional oil Under Painting Techniques you can join The Pieçes in how to Achieve it in digitaly [link] [link] [link] [link] / its also the Special As well many other "Traditional go Digital" Artists this days ... As for example One of the bests at Explaining it is Nevile page how to from simple Drawing [link] can be easily aplied to digital [link] And do In digital Oil Painted [link] Results as that ... [link] ...

MORE DEFENITION / GETTING NEAR OILS / IN DIGITAL TECHNIQUES ...

For me I think thats quite a Course Alot of Motion Book Artists Would need ...

For example / in your Case. I think in your motion books Captain Stone / As well others ... You are the Kind of Guy that Would be Able to Achieve things at quality and degree ... SO easily if you just join up That Tradition + Cintiq + Photoshop + Corel Painter .. Digital production techniques ...

One of the Greatest things of the Digital Tablets Era Is that You can Reaaly Aply Reaaly Old Masters Techniques in oils to Whatever Pencil Style You want ...

For example [link] is one of the best Examples of that kind of Grayscale with Color Overlaying techniques That give Reaaly Amazing Clean Smooth realistic OIL results ...

Not Ending as DIRTY/UNCLEAN With Lack of Definition as "inking & Lines Techniques" Do...
And seriously Once you put all the puzzle pieçes toguether just does not take that much time ...

YoU just need to Want / To do More REAL OIL LIKE Things in Digital ...
GET RID OF THE DIRTY LINES ...
... join all the Technical puzle Pieçes on how ...

And not Get limited by the "one day"
And start doing it NOW ...

You goT Everything for that MAN.
Even the cintiq ...

Just get Corel painter ... As got better Painting Smudge tools Than photoshop ...

And work it out ...

As i said your Motion books Fans Will thank you ...
As "Dirty lines Artworks" do not sell That well / or Are seen That pleasently IN DIGITAL / And therefore have not that much sucess comparing to Full oil like Digital Painting [link]

This days That kind of "REAL ART" oil quality in Digital .. is not Just a "Choise" But a "NEED" if you want to have most sucess in what you do actually ...




But Anyway / im just Talking here with my little Buttons As usualy ...
Dont Take it too serious ... Or take it if you want and have courage enouph for all that !

After many Years trying and getting crazy with lines .. [link] I have putted myself the days of my line artwork [link] Into another degree [link] and i am sincerely [link] or sometime sunfortunely [link] But i reaaly prefer spend up alot of time in digitally [link] But doinGS omething i know it will get another kind of Defenition and also another kind of sucess degree ... But i still have alot to reach [link] [link]
And not going to Stop efforting in each artwork till i reach more easily to that Degree ...

But hey thats me my Thinking and who i am ...

.. Hope some of my Visions Open Some Mind Doors..
.. In a Way that You can Aply it ( in a way alot better than i would be able to ) AS USUAL IN ALL YOU DO!


Good luck with everything for all us LIAM ! ...




RUBEN ISMAEL
RPGSI STUDIO
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