Random Coyote Productions

WIP Wednesday!

Added 2024-11-20 17:00:07 +0000 UTC

Even though it is just a panel with a boring old field desk, I was happy with the progression of images. Above: the basic, really sketchy pencils.

The initial go-over with the digital inks. The scanner I am using here these days is... not exactly the quality I'm used to working with, that's for sure. Fortunately I've been doing this for so long now I only really need the most basic references.

More cleaned up and smooth, but I haven't scrubbed out the lines where things cross over.

Ahhh, much better! Now there's a proper sense of depth at work. Coloring will be a breeze at this point.

One of the problems with drawing military equipment is the lack of color contrast. Everything is designed purposefully to blend in and be uniform in color, and many times, with interchangeable parts. There's a "sameness" that can't be dispensed with without disregarding reality.

Plastic folding field desks like this really exist; they are designed to fold up into a cube for "easy" transport. They are bulky and awkward, but, I mean, you have a desk in your middle-of-nowhere tent, how cool is that? But I guarantee some Major or something will leave all their papers in the drawers, making it 3x heavier than it needs to be.

Okee-dokee, we'll just jump right ahead! I forgot to save a couple of the interim steps... but then, I guess if I'm going to forget that sort of thing, this is the sort of picture to do it-- where there's not much going on, visually speaking. A picture of a plastic folding field desk will make sense, once the final context is revealed.