The Bruce's Decent into Madness & Comic Style Painting

I’ve been following Mike at Epic Duck Studio’s and his comic book style painting on Youtube for quite some time and have wanted to replicate this on something myself for longer than I can remember or care to admit, I’ve continued to find excuses for a while most of them just that… excuses but the main issue I kept finding was getting the recommended inks without paying extravagant postage costs and thankfully 2 weeks ago I found a local(ish) art supplier with the Daler Rowney FW inks in stock, so one order later and a few days waiting and my black & white acrylic inks finally arrived.

So for those who are not aware the black gets used for the black lining like you’d find in a comic book, the white is used in replace of a white primer and I have to tell you in testing this for the first time I’m not sure I’ll ever use white primer ever again, this was a complete game changer, its easier, its far more effective its covered the black primer like it wasnt even there as you’ll see in a moment in the pictures.

Between whoever the old turtle in Kung Fu Panda was, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles and Franklin from the old kids books/TV show theres no shortage of anthropomorphic turtles to get some inspiration from, the backpack made me think of Franklin but in the end I went with a mix of him and the TMNT team.

However when blocking out the colours I must admit I immediately chicked out of doing NMM for the first time as part of this challenge, as much as metalic paints are likely going to look weird in this art style I felt one challenge at a time was enough.

Im still extremely nervous about getting into the Marvel stuff when it arrives but starting with someone “less important” has definitely helped, the big thing Im dreading right now is the black lining only because I dont have the most steady hand when it comes to free hand type stuff but I recognise I have to start somewhere.

My question to you is either what challenge in your hobby do you keep putting off and whats stopping you? Or what have you dont recently to test yourself?