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I have. It takes some getting used to and a bit of experimentation, so I recommend doing that before committing to painting a full watercolor piece. Best to work in layers with watercolors, too. Do light base layers, let them dry, then build up your elements.
Cross-posting from the other thread, but I did a Vader sketch in Clip Studio Paint before going to see The Last Jedi:
Yeah, watercolor is about layering and working from light to dark, like Rydeen said. I haven't done it in ages, but I hope to get back into it in the future.
New page new art! I've got Star Wars art too!
I haven't seen the new SW movie, but I had to get in my yearly Kylo fan art.
Keeping my internet browsing limited to a few pages until I see the film tonight. Spoilers everywhere!
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Just moved to Sacramento and finally got my setup back online. Wanted to finish up on something to get back in the hang of things
I love it! Amazing colorsJust moved to Sacramento and finally got my setup back online. Wanted to finish up on something to get back in the hang of things
This is the mostly-done first page of a comic I'm working on. Hoping to learn from each page to tighten up my art as I go. :-)
I can spot a few things I want to fix up but I'm comfortable enough doing digital edits these days so it's only about 2 mins to do what I want to get it 100% where I want it.
I can spot a few things I want to fix up but I'm comfortable enough doing digital edits these days so it's only about 2 mins to do what I want to get it 100% where I want it.
Might as well throw my hat into the ring. Lots of things I could have fixed here but I'm happy I'm improving from where I used to be.
Just moved to Sacramento and finally got my setup back online. Wanted to finish up on something to get back in the hang of things
Awesome. Here's one I've been working on:
It's my DnD Wizard, Ah Pook. Calling this one "Komm Susser Tod." Not super satisfied with the coloring on his coat yet, but I'm happy with the pose and background!
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Abstract I made for a work related white elephant party. Not what I intended to make, and incomplete but it was nice having a deadline that forced me to just let it go.
Not the best pic of it. Not sure if it comes through but it's many many transparent layers. So it was quite neat in person.
By no means an experienced painter, but I ended up feeling quite proud.
I have a 36x96 canvas I'm preparing to recreate essentially the same motif, but just larger and panoramic.
Oh yeah: 24x30. Mostly Golden acrylic. A bit of sennelier in there but I guess I'm a golden fanboy.
Thanks, KK! :D
I have about.. 5 more of these to go.. And it might take me all year. lol Which is about how long it took me to do the last 5!
Anybody else a fan of Go Nagai's demonic classic Devilman? Drew this the night before New Year's Eve.
I can't help but feel a tiny bit proud. I know it's still nothing special, the first one doesn't even look human so it's easy to look better than that, and there are many, many things that could be better, but it's great to see some improvement.
Sorry about the quality. And no, as incredible as it may seem I didn't draw the former when I was 4 :p
Sorry about the quality. And no, as incredible as it may seem I didn't draw the former when I was 4 :p
Shared these in the daily art thread but I guess I'll post'em here as well :) Some of my latest kid superheroes:
The bulk majority of my illustrations are done in Adobe Illustrator. My process normally goes: Sketch (Photoshop) --> Lines & Color (Illustrator) --> Final effects/highlights (Photoshop). Boy have I learned to love the Live Paint option in Illustrator - it saves so much time. Though I'm looking to play around more with gradients, which I've barely touched.
The bulk majority of my illustrations are done in Adobe Illustrator. My process normally goes: Sketch (Photoshop) --> Lines & Color (Illustrator) --> Final effects/highlights (Photoshop). Boy have I learned to love the Live Paint option in Illustrator - it saves so much time. Though I'm looking to play around more with gradients, which I've barely touched.
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I got an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil for Xmas. I've painted a portrait of my sons as my first project. Done entirely in procreate.
Hamilton has been my album of the year for the past 2 years, and it'll probably still be this year. So here's a drawing I did to celebrate that!
Not sure if anyone's answered you yet, but Bob Ross works in Oils, not watercolour. Watercolour has fundamentally different techniques.
Graefellsom I like your stuff so much! It's like the dream I'll have before I wake up and realize I've metamorphosed into a bug or little animal. The insect collective unconscious haha. I hope you keep making lots and lots! They are really pretty and really neat.
I am wondering if you unbackBurnered the cute skeleton guy yet
^this video was the thing that taught me to start drawing. Great first video I think, for someone with no experience, and I guess maybe good for the experienced too!
yum yum yum.
I wonder what guides you toward these images. do you see things in the world that you want to mix together? Are you a nature lover? Do you live in the desert?
I am wondering if you unbackBurnered the cute skeleton guy yet
^this video was the thing that taught me to start drawing. Great first video I think, for someone with no experience, and I guess maybe good for the experienced too!
started three new ones today, still early stages.. still loving all the art you all are doing'!
yum yum yum.
I wonder what guides you toward these images. do you see things in the world that you want to mix together? Are you a nature lover? Do you live in the desert?
Havent popped in here in a while! Amazing work luffie Raging Spaniard DM_Uselink Really like seeing yalls work
Here is something recent. I do comics about my married life everyonce in a while. Hope yall enjoy
Here is something recent. I do comics about my married life everyonce in a while. Hope yall enjoy
Thanks! Ha! your comic hits close to home since I'm freelancing from my apartment currently, and I have to do most of that type of stuff too.
Here's something I did recently:
thank you!! I like your descriptions of them :D
I haven't as of yet gotten that much further with the skeleton guy, but hopefully soon.
I think I have a lot of subconscious elements coming into my work, never really sure where they come from.. I tend not to think too much when I do my art as overthinking it often makes it kind of stilted and unsatisfying if that makes sense. I'm almost useless for commissions.. my main theme I guess has been to do somewhat scary but kinda sad monsters I guess..I don't live in the desert and while I do like nature I'm a homebody more than anything!
Sorry, I meant to reply to you earlier but I've been ill the past week and still am a bit. The meds have turned my brain to mush. Dying to get back into the print room.
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Thank you! Really nice environment on that first page! Its a bummer that resizing gave you some jaggies on those ink lines
Any Captain Tsubasa fans here?
Damn, the artwork here is great. Wish I could draw characters in all sorts of dynamic stances and poses without looking wonky. I'll get there someday.
Did some fast colour practice today from a sketch I made of Aquaman from JL.
Did some fast colour practice today from a sketch I made of Aquaman from JL.
Here's the sketch.
Nice, in Mexico he is Steve Hyuga. Super Campeones and Winning Eleven is what got me into watching Futbol. "Tiro del Tigre!"
You should check out the work of Ian Francis if you haven't already :)
Abstract I made for a work related white elephant party. Not what I intended to make, and incomplete but it was nice having a deadline that forced me to just let it go.
Not the best pic of it. Not sure if it comes through but it's many many transparent layers. So it was quite neat in person.
By no means an experienced painter, but I ended up feeling quite proud.
I have a 36x96 canvas I'm preparing to recreate essentially the same motif, but just larger and panoramic.
Oh yeah: 24x30. Mostly Golden acrylic. A bit of sennelier in there but I guess I'm a golden fanboy.
This is awesome. Cap Tsubasa was big when I was a kid before Saint Seiya blew up.Thank you! Really nice environment on that first page! Its a bummer that resizing gave you some jaggies on those ink lines
Any Captain Tsubasa fans here?
haha I was super into the anime when I was a kid. If I vaguely remember, one of the antagonists scores a goal by jumping off the top of the goal post when everyone had forgotten about him. That and the animation when a character would split two defenders was always the same. I remember watching it thinking the refs were missing clear fouls.
Between working dead end jobs and dealing with depression I haven't done any serious work in a long time. Here's some old stuff that I like and don't hate too much. Some "finished" some unfinished.
I know I belong around creative people in a creative environment. I've dragged my feet for far too long. I know it's not too late. I just don't know how to get started :/
Making art for a living would be a dream come true. I just get lost in my own head and overwhelmed. Plus, I compare myself to others and end up hating my own work.
Anyway, shout outs to Raging Spaniard for making this thread. I hope you're doing well.
I had the privilege of meeting him in real life. A down to Earth, charming fellow and a HELLUVA artist. Truly a master of color and conveying motion. Seeing his work in person was a treat.
I know I belong around creative people in a creative environment. I've dragged my feet for far too long. I know it's not too late. I just don't know how to get started :/
Making art for a living would be a dream come true. I just get lost in my own head and overwhelmed. Plus, I compare myself to others and end up hating my own work.
Anyway, shout outs to Raging Spaniard for making this thread. I hope you're doing well.
I had the privilege of meeting him in real life. A down to Earth, charming fellow and a HELLUVA artist. Truly a master of color and conveying motion. Seeing his work in person was a treat.
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Mark Lenders was his name for us in Spain! Even as a kid I recognized the many, many issues the show had: terrible pacing, complete lack of realism (which is ok) and the sheer ridiculousness of Japan winning the world cup ... but it was still a fun ride.
Recently Ive been playing the mobile game and have been re-reading the manga for research purposes (I have a soccer IP in mind I want to develop) and the fact that it was made as propaganda for the Japanese youth to get into soccer is so, so obvious and in your face that you cant help but laugh when you see the ridiculous heights they elevate Japanese soccer to.
Thanks, Adam! Life is indeed good right now, sorry to hear that you havent been happy with your situation. Thank you for the kind words.
For professional advice, its always a good idea to have a clear goal in mind. If you just want to be in videogames, find a job that you could do at a beginner level and get your foot in the door. If your goal is to be a really high caliber, hirable artist, then attaining a high degree of skill in one area before you diversify is also a great idea. Figure out if you want to be an experience/UI designer, or a character artist, or a world builder, or an illustrator, etc etc and really push your limits, then a path to an industry job will follow much more naturally. I enjoyed the brief time we hung out in NY and could tell you were very conflicted with your priorities at the time so I hope you have found a pocket of space where you can really grind on your skillset.
Been trying to get used to using a (cheap) Wacom Intuos i got for christmas after ditching my old one years ago. I drew my sisters old dog using Mischief. Thought it came out alright.
Acrylic painting is my specialty!
But I'm trying to get back into digital painting. I want a stylus for my phone, but the ones I keep finding online have these blunt tips, and the one with standard sharp tips have an odd disk like nub.
Is there an iphone compatible stylus with a nub that replicates a pencil tip (with the same precision)? In other words, one without a ridiculous disk at the end like this:
I've been commissioned by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to turn some of the kids/teens they work with who've been diagnosed with Type 1 into superheroes, just finished the first two this last week (there'll be 8-10 total):
Jack (age 15)
Katherine (age 10)
Jack (age 15)
Katherine (age 10)
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Oh! I hope you're feeling better. Thanks for your nice response. I think it's a good strategy to keep following whatever methods are causing this slew of rich scenes to emerge. I get the thing about not overthinking. I hope you'll always keep at it!
These are charcoal drawings I made to describe two personality types, the Entp and the Infj, from the Myers Briggs typology thing based on Carl Jung.
Infj uses introverted intuition which is like collective unconscious/corpse like in my mind. Old soul stuff. Also uses extroverted feeling which is like taking care of others/externalised emotion/like a whore unpacking heart with words. Entp uses extroverted intuition which is like, infantile, babyish; also uses introverted thinking which is pedantic/boring/accurate.
And sometimes infj and Entp really really love each other. At least i hope she loves me
Infj uses introverted intuition which is like collective unconscious/corpse like in my mind. Old soul stuff. Also uses extroverted feeling which is like taking care of others/externalised emotion/like a whore unpacking heart with words. Entp uses extroverted intuition which is like, infantile, babyish; also uses introverted thinking which is pedantic/boring/accurate.
And sometimes infj and Entp really really love each other. At least i hope she loves me
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I likely posted these elsewhere, but anyhow. When I am not writing bad poetry and making silly fanvids, I sometimes do art.
I am a complete novice. 100%. Not under any illusion that these are super awesome. I in fact only started drawing a few years ago, do to h.pro's encouragement and a gaf thread.
The result of that was stuff like this:
I kinda...stopped for awhile, not sure why.
Then last year, I was forced to do an oil painting for a charity scavenger hunt (GISHWHES, if anyone is keen)
This was that oil painting, and I swear to everything this is the first time I picked up a brush:
Encouraged, I did another one:
Not as good as the first, but meh.
Now I can't bring myself to take to the time to do it again, because it takes forever and is super messy.
I really need to sit down and focus on it sometime.
I am a complete novice. 100%. Not under any illusion that these are super awesome. I in fact only started drawing a few years ago, do to h.pro's encouragement and a gaf thread.
The result of that was stuff like this:
I kinda...stopped for awhile, not sure why.
Then last year, I was forced to do an oil painting for a charity scavenger hunt (GISHWHES, if anyone is keen)
This was that oil painting, and I swear to everything this is the first time I picked up a brush:
Encouraged, I did another one:
Not as good as the first, but meh.
Now I can't bring myself to take to the time to do it again, because it takes forever and is super messy.
I really need to sit down and focus on it sometime.
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Hope embedding tweets is fine. If not, let me know. Just practice.
Fiction It seems to me you have a really great base to work off of, I think if you decide to continue drawing and painting, you'll improve quickly by leaps and bounds. I think you did a really good job of giving a sense of scale and distance in your first go round. It's hard for me to tell much about the 2nd one since the picture is a bit dark, but I wouldn't be discouraged if you feel like it didnt end up as well as your first. Consistency is really difficult and we all have off days no matter how long we've practiced.
Fiction It seems to me you have a really great base to work off of, I think if you decide to continue drawing and painting, you'll improve quickly by leaps and bounds. I think you did a really good job of giving a sense of scale and distance in your first go round. It's hard for me to tell much about the 2nd one since the picture is a bit dark, but I wouldn't be discouraged if you feel like it didnt end up as well as your first. Consistency is really difficult and we all have off days no matter how long we've practiced.
Awesome! I hope they all get pubbed soon! I liked your pictures and I Thought your pencil portrait was really beautiful.
Oooh and I like your poem with the kinda villanelle structure. I love structured poems. Can I share a sonnet here I did last week?
OKAY!
It's about the time I started loving good literature.
The first was Romeo and Juliet:
We read aloud and choked on every line.
We spat and butchered all the players said,
till one jock nailed it. Miller (friend of mine)
began insisting bravely that he take
the lead in reading in Mercutio's voice.
Cold Mrs. Day could not hide warmest praise
as line by line he turned what had been noise
to something rising steadily; it peaked
when from my chair I heard a dying friend,
my ears unstopped, I heard the players speak,
and felt five hundred years old there and then,
saw boys, like us, arguing for laughs and time,
like us, shoving for power and scratched and dying.
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This is very fun. Haha. I'm the one coming through the door.
