OC reference page!! this is mike, one half of me and @bonzoobel’s OCs. originally started as subnautica ocs that morphed into more general sci-fi guys.
mike is my most beloved ever and she makes me so happy :) the drawing of her eating is taken from another drawing i made of the pair that i’ll post eventually. (OrTube is their home planet’s version of YouTube).
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What is your process when doing fully rendered art! I've always loved looking at how detailed they are
I can show you with a couple screenshots of a current wip
1. I start out with a super rough sketch. For people it's a basic skeletal sketch of where what body part goes. For background sketches it's just vague shapes in the places where I'd like them to be.
2. Clean up time baby!! That's the stage where my vague shapes turn into full shapes. It's also the stage where I settle on details.
This is what a clean sketch looks like. Mind you not every detail I sketch is something I do in lineart, some things are just colors
3. Lineart woo-hoo!
This is what finished lineart looks like for me. What I also do is paint in shadows on my lineart layer for more depth and to give myself visual clarity too
4. Colors. For big pieces like this one right here I already color code the setting, give the whole thing a vibe
See this? No shading, that's all just coloring. Coding the colors this way minimizes the amount of layers I need to shade plus I tend to work on max. 3 color layers anyway. What I do for big pieces like this is color normally, then adjust the value and all that with a separate layer and merge everything. The minimum layer approach is something I picked up on when I was using ibis paint x on my phone in 2014 I think? Back then I had 3 layers to work with and I made that count and I guess that never left
5. ~shading~✨️ aka my favorite part aka the part where everything comes together. The shading really depends on the vibe and thing I'm drawing. Some shading is complex and some shading is simple. It's definitely the most fun part
6. Detailing. That's what I do afterwards stuff like rim lighting or texturing! Tho texturing is something new im trying. I'm kind of sick of my art looking flat sooo I use a variety of brushes to help with that. Genuinely think it looks good, makes my stuff look more alive
7. Sign it. I cannot stress this enough. SIGN YOUR WORKS!!! WHATEVER IT IS, SIGN IT!! I put my signature in places it's difficult to remove because you never ever know if some bloke wants to steal or not. Protect your creative property and sign it, watermark it. Make sure that people know it's yours and yours only
Wow that got long I'm sorry! But that's basically my process from start to finish, wait I forgot the collapse after I'm done oh well not that important hahaha
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