Meerkat's Art

[Meerkat]

This is actually my first time drawing TLK and my first real attempt at using vexel lines in Photoshop:



If anyone has any critique I'd love to hear it! I did have trouble on the rock, and the grass was added in with a default brush at the last moment so they are not exactly up to par

Reference used: http://images.wikia.com/lionking/images ... report.jpg

[Tora]

That is really good compared to a lot of ones I have seen. Very well done.

[Meerkat]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

[Regulus]

What's a vexel?

Also, you forgot the shadows.

[Meerkat]

A vexel is Photoshop's version of a vector. I don't know what it is past that, it's the "pen" tool that lets you map out lines or shapes before you actually draw them.

As for the shadows, I kind of liked it clean :'D I need to do more drawings so I can understand how the shadows work in the TLK style. Thank you, though!

[DGFone]

Vector graphics are a more computationally and practically tougher form of filling the pixels on your monitor. A vector is a set of data that gives a line or curve a color and a distance. This is why when you zoom in and out with vector graphics, they remain crisp and clear.

A vexel is nothing more than a visual copy of vector graphics using standard raster graphics - where pixels of a preset size and color are used. So at a proper setting, there is no difference between vexels and real vectors - after all, your monitor is made to draw raster based graphics. But if yo do zoom in and out with vexels, then the limitations of raster graphics start to show.

...I hope this isn't too 'nerdy' for you guys to understand.

[Meerkat]

Thanks for the definition DGfone! I knew they were closely related but did not know the differences between them.

[Regulus]

[quote="Meerkat"]A vexel is Photoshop's version of a vector.[/quote]

[quote="DGFone"]A vexel is nothing more than a visual copy of vector graphics using standard raster graphics [/quote]

Well, this would explain why I got fed up with the pen tool, the last time I tried to use it. I thought PS could use true vectors.

[quote="Meerkat"]As for the shadows, I kind of liked it clean :'D I need to do more drawings so I can understand how the shadows work in the TLK style. Thank you, though![/quote]

I've noticed that, once shadows are added, any drawing looks much better. Really, a shadow is nothing but the absence of light, so if you know which direction the light source is coming from, you darken the other side. Like this.

But, in the TLK style animation, the shadows are not nearly as gradual. There are only two shades: shadowed, and unshadowed, because I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I want to sound like I do anyway. You probably know what I mean, though. This probably isn't the best example, but the shading here is kinda obvious.

[Meerkat]

I get what you're saying with the shadows. I'll try adding some on my next drawing, I simply have trouble with them even on regular sketches :'D but I need the practice.

I've always worked with vexels and never with vectors, and now I'm interested in trying true vector work

[Timon the great]

Very nice Simba artwork . He's got some big ears though if you ask me.

(Not to be bad or anything, but it kind of looks like Simba is "wasted" or something.. )