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littleshinyelf · 2 years

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We have launched !

CODEX Obscurus is here ! CODEX Obscurus is a collective artbook featuring the work of 145 artists from around the world. Their artwork depicts a range of material, including folkloric themes from the artists’ home countries or their own interpretations of the occult. It is such a beautiful project and I am incredibly lucky to be part of it ♥

You can find it at >

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spiridon/codexobscurus

Here is a sneak peak of the Spring Thief, my personal participation to CODEX Obscurus. Can’t wait for people to get their hands on this book and finaly see everything we have been working on !

#codex obscurus #ocult #tarot #witches #artbook #kickstarter

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littleshinyelf · 3 years

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(repost) maybe once a year people dig this old post up and i have a blast reading their reactions tags. :’) i miss painting for myself, there is just not enough time in a day.

[Reunion] I found time to draw!! atlonglast

Everything changed for Van after this, she just stopped fighting

#repost #da:o #Van Mahariel #Tamlen

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littleshinyelf · 3 years

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wip of Coronille Sousbosquet (that would be Coronilla Undergrove) a halfling bard with a passion for dwarves heroes (hence the beard-hairstyle-thing) and epics, on her way to become the hero of her own song.

#Dungeons and Dragons #my OC #halfling #bard #dnd bard #digital art #dnd #d&d

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littleshinyelf · 3 years

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quick one from the last session, we met a young shepherd on the road, Pistis had a great time~

#She also almost abandonned her teammates after locking them in an abandoned temple #because she didn’t trust them not to steal anything from the gods. but we came to an agreement ;)#Pistis #Dungeons and Dragons #dnd #dnd homebrew #dryad #my OC

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littleshinyelf · 3 years

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(my latest DnD character; the dryad Pistis of Tégée) A foolish woodcutter went after the wrong tree, who turned his axe against him and left for adventure

#this is a homebrew adventure that takes place in ancient greece #dnd #dungeon and dragons #rp #Pistis #dryad #nymph

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littleshinyelf · 3 years

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remember Monach? ticking-bomb-Monach? walking-aberation-in-the-making-Monach? yeah, well, him again.

#dragon age #da #apostate #monach #mage

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littleshinyelf · 3 years

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I have been playing a lot of DnD since lockdown (ironic, i know...) and just remembered two things: i have painted DnD characters for commissions before & i have a tumblr blog that could really use some content :’)

Anyway, this is Clove, she was commissionned for a DnD player’s birthday and I can only hope that they enjoyed seeing her come to life !

#commission #Clove #dnd #d&d #digital painting #Character Design #rp #rp character

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littleshinyelf · 4 years

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having fun with personal projects :)

#wip #sketch #digital art #elf #mouflon #chèvralier :')

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littleshinyelf · 4 years

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wip ! sweet Shahar. it’s been too long.

#my oc #Shahar #wip #feeling good lately. i want to draw and write for shahar again. feels so right #digital art #digital painting #portrait

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littleshinyelf · 4 years

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In Death Sacrifice - Van Mahariel fighting the Archdemon

#wip #I want her eyes to glow as Urthemiel's soul crushes hers #I don't know if i'll ever find the time to actually paint this #waiting for DA4 is hard.#sketch #dragon age: origins #DA:O #Grey Warden #the hero of ferelden #mahariel #Van Mahariel #she has vallaslins i just don't draw them in sketches and had them as i paint #Urthemiel

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littleshinyelf · 4 years

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wip of something i have been working on lately - not sure where to go from there, i’ll take a few days to think about it before finishing the painting!

#my art #fae #digital painting #digital art #illustrastion

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littleshinyelf · 4 years

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I just stumbled upon your blog and I ADORE your art! It's so beautiful and somehow sassy? I don't know how to describe it but it's just different and beautiful 💯😩🙏🏼❤️ May I ask you what program or app you use? And what brushes you use/love? It's always interesting to see an artist's tools! ❤️

Somehow sassy haha, i like that. Thank you for your kind words ♥

I have been working with Photoshop for years and usually only use one brush that I like at the time, until I find an other one that I enjoy more. Lately I have been enjoying a few brushes by Ahmed Aldoori and Istebrak, which i think you can find on their personal websites and/or gumroad.

If everything goes as planned, I’ll soon be able to try out Procreate. We’ll see how it goes. :D

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littleshinyelf · 4 years

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Some of you were interested in seeing the process, so here it is! I’m not quite sure if there is anything useful in here but i’ll try to explain how i worked on this the best i can, and if you have any specific question, feel free to ask it /o/

This was the basic sketch for this commission. I used an oval hardedge brush with some transparency to it (depending on the pressure of the pen) on a new layer (drawing directly on the background color would only bring problems later on).

I knew that character would have blue skin and was not really sure what “blue skin” would actually look like, so i started with some black and withe values for her face (new layer in Normal mode, same brush).

Once i had my basic values i was able to work on the color without worrying too much about the volume of the face. The way i brought that color in was actually a mess... i created a variety of blue layers and then played with their blending mode until i met a result that was not terrible. I then created a new layer (normal) and painted on top of this result to bring back some of the values that had been lost during this. This was by far the most chaotic part of the process and only luck made it work in the end :’)

CTRL+SHIFT+E gave me a new flat image with everything i had done until now (i had the background color in this too because i f* up but i would recommand not to do this haha). I worked on top of it on a new layer (normal) and started painting the wings, casting strong shadows under each layer of feathers to make them pop more.

i used the lasso tool to create those sharp edges, either painting the shadow or filling it in with the color gradient tool. Nothing incredible and i’m not a fan of those tools, but they ended up being very useful here to create a good base for the painting

To bring some light to the side of the character I created a new layer (put it in Color Dodge blending mode), chose a light redish color and painted with a very large and soft brush on the edge of the cape.

The brown/orange feathers and blue skin created a strong contrast that i liked, in some ways, but it also made them feel like they didn’t really belong to the same image, so i brought some of the brown from the wings on the living algas of her dress. (yep, they are alive. i took some liberties with the design compared to the ref i had. I didn’t want them to look like “a dress made out fo alga” and more like alga clinging to her skin and taking that shape from its own will? Sort of.)

Next step is really just painting on a new normal layer with the same hard-edge brush as always to create those details and textures.

I used a “black and white” layer to verify the values and this was way too “flat” for my taste so i created a new Multiply layer to create some shadows and volume:

So that’s what i ended up with and i was happy with it so i just painted in the last details and objects and i was done! (if anyone is wondering, the scribles on the foot say “REF” because i realy needed a photo reference to paint this nightmare body part.)

Final one, tadaaa. Now that it’s done i’m a bit ashamed that i didn’t have more useful things to say about that process haha :’)

The main thing i learned from this one was to always keep a “Black and White” layer on top of everything, so i can check my values from time to time.

#sorry for my broken english...#you know what? just ask me questions about specific things! :'D when i just go through my process i end up not knowing what to talk about:'D #my art #digital art #process #i'm not sure this was useful in any way

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littleshinyelf · 4 years

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DnD Commission of “Arryn Aravyre” (would someone be interested in the process? i managed to keep the layers for once so i could share that. Just let me know!)

#my art #commission #Arryn Aravyre #DnD #dungeons and dragons #digital art #digital painting #character design #character art

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littleshinyelf · 4 years

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