Mega-Quick Style Experiment

So here's the story: I have been kind of wanting to do comic stuff again for a while. I think I've got some fun stories rattling around in my brain that could make for good comic fodder. The only problem is, like, I don't want to -draw- comics. I just kind of want them to happen. x3

To that end I've been fiddling around with a way of making blender do comic-y stuff for a while, but I've never had good results. All the methods of stylized shading usually look pretty rough, and all the methods of procedural inking always seem to turn out downright horrible imo, at least on stuff as organic as a character. To be fair, there are ways to get a decent look if you build your model specifically with such things in mind, but I don't really want to have to build a second set of models just for comics, ideally I could just use my existing ones. So I'd experiment for a while, come up short, forget it for a bit, get inspired again sometime later, experiment again... rinse and repeat. The whole time there's always been a little part of my brain trying to speak out... I ignored it 'cause I didn't want to listen, but finally this latest time it got too loud to ignore: "You know you're a 2D artist too, right? Why don't you just manually add inks yourself?"

Ugh, fine. I was hoping to avoid having to actually do -work- but I guess I could give it a try.

So that's what this is. Rendered in Blender and hand inked on top, with a little manual tweaking to the colour layer as well.

This is a super quick experiment; there's a lot I could do to improve things. The shadows are a bit too dark I think, (in fact I should probably just render the character flat and add some quick shadows in 2D instead) the fur could use a little more tweaking, the white outline was probably a bad idea, I should probably ditch the texturing on her dress and stockings, etc. But as a test just to see if this works... I think this has potential! Enough that I'm posting it here because I'm pleasantly surprised with the results. Didn't take terribly long either, so reasonable for comics.

The actual picture is boring and shit, but just think of the *~potential~*