#just wanted a more *painterly* vibe | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

boxbug · 7 months

Text

A Canary’s Final Flight

My piece for @trafficzine 4th edition! Get it for free here! 200 pages of excellent art and fics, incredible work from all participants and from the mods especially!! huge shoutout to the mods for real

Process notes under the cut! (I struggled a lot so it's a bit of a novel)

So the entire process was a Ride. I knew when I picked this prompt that I was going to have a hard time, because Jimmy’s final death had been illustrated a billion times over by extremely talented artists. But I had a Vision of the snapshot of the second before the impact, when everything is still but you know what’s about happen. It was very much inspired by the clip of Fog by Jabberwocky, bu the thing is, they have the advantage of all the build up of the fall, and that’s when the trouble started.

This was my first version, and obviously it wasn't working. And I was trying so hard, with so many iterations! Small wings, big wings, no wings, different poses, less backgrounds elements. I'd done compositions were everything seemed peaceful but something is Wrong, but it wasn't working this time.

So instead I focused on what rendering I'd like to do - I tried a painterly approach, for that visceral feeling, but it wasn't working either (but hey, I did keep the red sky, so, progress)

At this point I'd been doing back and forths for weeks and I was just as lost as at the start. Now that's my tip for people who make art of any kind, in situations like that, stop thinking about how you can make the best piece possible, and think about you can have fun with it (because when you aren't it's visible). And for that was, 1 - going back to using ink and pen nibs and doing way too detailed inking, and 2- looking at Dave McKean's covers for Sandman (which, funnily enough, was also a reference for my previous trafficzine piece)

And from there I was actually going somewhere! Between the jagged rocks, the red sky, and the increased verticality with the borders, I had hit the vibes I wanted.

I did some experimentation with the border, and even though I really liked the bad boys I drew they were taking too much away from the lonely desolation, so I actually used Red (Unecessary Redstone)'s idea of all of Jimmy's worldy's possessions scattered on the ground post impact, with the idea to make it looks like the central image is his grave being dug.

(and yes for a short amount of time the were supposed to be clock markings on the sun, but there was already enough going with the wings so I scrapped that) (also fun fact the reason why the wings aren't fully material but more ghostly is because my toddler cousin was watching me draw the very first draft and asked why he didn't just use his wings and i went :( so the wings are a metaphor now)

So from there I found a bunch of picture and took some myself, cut and assembled everything together, added shadows in all the appropriate places, and repainted some elements so that everything would look better intergrated (some of the wheats are basically 100% handpainted, the cardboard as well). This took a suprisingly long amount of time, but I was done!

Well I wasn't expecting to have that much to say, but I hope if you're still reading, it was at least interesting!

#trafficzine #limited life #limlife #limlife fanart #jimmy solidarity fanart #solidaritygaming #i forgot all the tags augh #curse of not posting often #mcyt fanart #mcyt #zine illustration #zines #my art

1K notes · View notes

cheseely · 5 months

Note

Hi, I'm sure you get this often but I really love your recent genshin artwork, do you think you could explain your painting process? I love the colouring effect in that piece especially. Thank you.

Thank you so much! I got a few messages like this from my previous piece (thank you guys for the staff pick & blaze btw, I really didn't expect all the support😭) so I thought I'd share a bit of my process below as thanks.

I always do my lineart first because it feels less daunting to me when applying colours. I will do some rough colours first so I can easily adjust it to my liking.

Next, I make sure to separate each character into different layers when I clean it up. I like to work one character or object at a time, it's less overwhelming for me that way, and I can use clipping masks for ease of rendering.

I'll usually apply some adjustment layers on top of the base layer for shadows and highlights. When I say base layer, I just mean a layer of the colour without any effects.

I like using 'hard light' for shadows, and 'screen' for highlights, but you can really use whatever clicks with you.

Rinse & repeat this process for every character in the illustration. Note that I make Furina the focus so everything behind her will be less rendered than the elements in front of them (Neuvillette is a lot less rendered compared to Furina, and the painting in the back barely has much shading).

Once I render out each asset in the illustration and add shadows & highlights to my liking, I then to merge foreground/ midground/ background elements so I can make the overall illustration clearer to read. I don't want it to feel messy or overcrowded, and I think it's easy to get tunnel-visioned in small details and lose the clarity of the entire illustration.

Make sure to zoom out constantly and make your illustration B&W to check the values to see if the drawing is clear.

I created a simple S curve with the values for readability, and have the foreground elements have darker values & contrasts.

As for the BG, I wanted to add more textures into the drawing, particularly the painting in the back. Here's an image of it when I only added in the base colours.

I use the smudge tool to create more texture once I fill in the base colours. Since I don't really 'paint' anything with the textures in, I just put in the base colours and take a textured brush to smudge it. However, over-smudging can lose the painterly texture I want, so I usually smudge vertically or horizontally in a single stroke to create a sense of movement.

Another thing to note is that I only textured the BG, I thought it would help it blend into the background a bit better. I usually wouldn't do this for the foreground because I want those elements to be clearer.

At the very end, I tend to spend a fair bit of time just fiddling with more adjustment layers, various filters (such as blur, or noise), or liquify small details to really finalize the piece. Just vibes...basically this is me

Anyway, I hope that was helpful & it made sense!! Feel free to message me if you have any other questions & I'll try my best to answer! I might've glazed over a lot since I didn't wanna make this too long.

#anon #ask #tutorial #art tutorial #genshin impact

185 notes · View notes

kitty-av · 4 months

Text

Hello! I got a new sketchbook and I decided to try it by drawing a Danny with my markers. I might try doing something with gouache too, because I honestly really enjoy the process and the look of painting with it.

I also have some things to ramble about under the line, which isn't strictly dp related, more so me comparing how I work with different mediums and being a little analytical about it, you know, as a treat to my brain because it needs it. •^•

So, to start with the Danny above, it's nothing overly ambitious, I was just vibing, but I think it looks nice. Here's the thing though, it looks weird to me, and the reason, probably, is that the process I use with the previously mentioned gouache doesn't translate well to markers.

Here's the process in question btw, a smol sketch to illustrate the way I work with paint but with markers:

See, that's a process that's clearly a bit more suited to painting imo. So it looks good but a little off with markers. And it's not just to markers. Here's what I mean:

This is digital. With the same process.

It's even weirder than the markers imo, but you can still tell that there's a process going on that's shared.

And the gouache version of this process looks like this: this is my most recent painting ( literally yesterday )

This was done in flat brush, and I think you can clearly see that the process I used across all these paintings started with my gouache work. Which also might be why Danny looks a bit different than them because I had to adjust my process. Rather than starting with colouring my canvas and starting the face with a contrasting colour, both Danny, and as far as I can remember the digital dude, started blank and I had to do the glow effect thing a lot less naturally - especially with the lack of brush strokes. The scratchiness of them is aesthetic. Like, brush stroke and direction is important guys, it adds a lot.

I think if I try to draw this Danny in gouache and explain my process better this would all make sense, but I haven't had the time to get back into art because of uni, and I rather like to. I especially want to try doing digital art again, but I've been doing it so rarely that I haven't really got a process anymore, so I'm a bit intimidated to do anything but portraits.

In any case, if anybody has good Sai brushes that could help me get that painterly vibe there, I'd be very grateful •^•

I want to start drawing and creating things for the Phandom again, but all I have currently are sketches, which I know aren't traditionally the easiest things to interact with visually, especially without colour. Still, I'm just going to share things I make and vibe, I suppose.

I have some interesting designs I'd like to try to make digitally, like that mermaid lady ghost from a while back, and her sister who I decided was Pariah Dark's fabulous ex. Still not sure on Queen's design, but I just want to draw a regal lady.

Yes, I am dumping previous designs here so I can share them again, partly to remind myself of them without scrolling back my Tumblr for a thousand years.

Also my Bois, the clones, who I still want to write into a story and don't know how, but like - I love them and want to show them to more people.

Well, that's all for now. Hope you all have a good day. •^•>💚💜💚

#danny phantom #dp fanart #dp art #phanart #danny phantom art #ft.my art rambles #and also my other art because i went crazy thinking about #the difference medium can have on an artist's process #like legit #my guys #try it #if you're an artist try this experiment #use the process you have on digital with trad and vice versa

110 notes · View notes

guppyfish77 · 9 months

Note

dropping in to let you know that I find your painting style verry pleasant uwu Do you have a technique or is it vibes only?

Thank you very much! Apologies for answering late, I'm happy to hear that you find my style pleasant :]

As for techniques... techniques... hmmmmmmm, my art process is very loose, so I suppose its mainly based on vibes, however there are a few techniques that I do use in my art process!

-Going Dark then Lighter

Its easier for me to figure out where the light hits rather than where the shadows fall, for this reason I often start with a character or background a lot darker that they are supposed to be and then adding light to it, it is quite an effective technique for scenes that have dramatic lighting

Sometimes the "outlines" that appear are just me adding light and not quite allowing the light to touch the edges

like this (not all outlines are because of this tho, some outlines I do add deliberately)

-Checking Values

If you make a layer that is entirely white, put it on the very top, then set that layer's blending mode to Color, you will get a black and white version of your artwork! (blending modes Hue and Saturation also seems to work, I can't tell if there is a difference between the three, but I always usually go for Color) Its a quick way to check values and make sure that no colors are blending together

-The less layers the better!

This is more of a personal preference but I absolutely hate managing a lot of layers, so I try to use as little layers as possible, characters are always rendered on a single layer, colors, shading, and all! If I use any blending modes such as Overlay or Multiply, I simply get the result that I want before combing the layers to continue working on it. The 2 brushes that I use has quite a nice blending to it and when worked on a single layer is what most likely what gives it the painterly quality.

Background layers are a bit more complicated because there are many elements to work with, but works somewhat similarly. Near the end of working on a piece I do an "overpaint" layer where go around the entire piece to touch up a few things, though I have to be careful not to add too many overpaint layers, it gets very chaotic that way

anywhos those are some of my techniques, I hope that you find it interesting or that it helps you! 👍

#asks #bluebellowl #longer post?#I got verrry excited to talk about art

189 notes · View notes

mykatzone · 7 months

Text

Answering asks #4

I have been... procrastinating over answering asks in my inbox... just a bit 🥺

I'm really grateful for everyone's patience so I'm finally sitting down to answer all the asks I got! Again tysm ;w;

• Finny art request + Timelapse and brief overview of my art process

My deepest apologies anon! Not only did you send this ask back in July, but I additionally promised you a reply back in August- and it's October now! 😭 I am so sorry for my lateness and am so grateful for your patience!

In any case, you asked for a Finny drawing so I offer a Finny drawing! As well as a timelapse of my art process and brief overview of how I do things since you were interested!!!

I wasn't sure what style you wanted me to draw him in (I have so many styles RIP) so I picked the most difficult one I (sometimes) use! Aka my painterly style!

As for how I draw like this uhh, it's a lot of messing around trying to find the right colors basically!

Also focusing on quick brush strokes that communicate the shape of whatever surface I'm rendering!

I also love casting most of the upper part of the face in shadows. Does it make sense? No. Does it look good? Yes!!

As for my lineart, again- rly depends on the style I'm going for- but I tend to use a more sketchy style of lineart these days.

Like a superrr clean sketch. I think it looks nicer with my rendering style, bc the lines have that sketchy rough quality so it's easier to hide the imperfections bc I can hide under the "well it's supposed to look rough duhh" excuse LOL. Work smart not hard! I always say that.

I hope I'm making sense with my rambles. I've never been the best at explaining my art process bc I myself don't rly get what I'm doing usually. It just kinda comes as a reflex almost?? I've been drawing for so long I just kinda go with the flow at this point.

Anyhow hope it was worth the wait XD enjoy your Finny!!!

• Kuroshitsuji Musical idea suggestions

To refresh everyone's memory (bc I'm so late at answering asks), awhile back @shadowalkingschemer asked if I ever planned to make a Kuroshitsuji musical parody type songs/animations like I did for Umineko, to which I said "probs no bc an actual official Kuroshitsuji musical exists, but it sounds like a rly fun idea tho". ANYHOW- this was the followup ask I got from the same person! So let me finally answer!!!

Oki so I looked up this Beethoven's Last Night thing you mentioned and???? OMG??? It goes hard from the first few minutes I listened to. It's a rock opera I assume? And it's such a bop?? And yes this would be perfect for Kuroshitsuji, it matches that classical sophisticated vibe SO WELL with the general edge of the story (bc duh. it's a recreation of Beethoven's compositions but with epic rock music). God this is so good, thank you for the recommendation I will have to listen to the full album soon bc WOW.

• Nice person in my inbox :D

Thank you so much @eynnwwyjth !! That's such a sweet compliment too ;W; to call my art enchanting AAA ty!!! :>

• Animation advice

Thank you for checking out my YouTube @aeowolfestheater !! It's my primary social media, and I'm glad you fell down the rabbit hole of my many many uploads I posted over the years XD

To answer your question, I don't rly have the best personal advice when it comes to starting out as an animator rly! I kinda... fell into it? XD I started animating (well trying to animate in MS Paint), before I even turned 10, so I didn't really have that traditional learning curve? It was mostly a lot of trial and error, trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.

(If anyone wants to see how my old animations looked and how they improved over the years, I posted many "Animation Improvement" type videos that showcase my work over the years, so you get the idea of what I'm talking abt!)

youtube

Best advice I can give to any animator right now is probably the boring advice I personally never took (hence why it took so long for me to get where I am now). Learm the fundementals (the principles of animation, the ins and outs of the animation program you're using, general art skills are also a bonus depending of what you wanna animate). I think it's also important when you are first starting out to focus less on making your animations smooth and clean and more on learning how to capture movement itself (that's the point of animation after all!). Learn how things move depending on material, speed, physics etc. and how to communicate that in animation. I think just observing life helps a lot. References are your friend (video references are probs the best). Ofc clean and smooth animation is great as well, but that comes after you learn the basics I think. Stay on model the best you can while animating any shot (ofc unless you are doing squash and stretch or experimental animation). It makes it look less janky. Uhh I can't think of much else right now (bc again I never rly learned animation the normal way haha), so I will link my two animation tutorials here! They are abt Clip Studio Paint EX though, idk how helpful they are if you don't have that program :'0!

youtube

• Tumblr mutual reunion!

Omg hi @rissynicole and so sorry for the late reply!! As this post has shown so far I am extremely slow at replying to the asks I recieve in my inbox! Anyhow it is me! Katrinci! I got back on Tumblr in 2022 (has it already been over a year??)! Sadly someone else took my old username (an innactive empty blog too... I'm so mad), so I got a new username heyooo. I hope you've been well!! I'm doing better then I have in gosh, years I feel like XD. Mostly bc I'm finally out of school and finally focusing on stuff I wanna be doing (art career stuff and irl stuff!) But yeah I hope you've been well too!!! Feel free to reply or shoot me another ask if you feel like, I'll do my best to reply on time this time! (I'm so so sorry for being so late!!) Anyhow YIPPIE!

• Where to watch my silly Umineko Musical parody

It's here! I privated it on my main channel bc I thought it was too goofy/self-indulgent even for me (also it wasn't doing well and y'know how YouTube is with channels that underperform T_T), so I moved it to my secondary channel! It has both the song you are referencing and the other song I did! Enjoy :>

youtube

• What Croatian stereotype is Katzone?

Well every region in Croatia has its own stereotype, I'm from Dalmatia, and we are stereotyped as loud. So I def fit that one! And also I fit the "cura iz umjetničke" (girl from art school) stereotype quite well. I went to an art highschool and I'm gay, autistic, slightly mentally ill and look vaguely alt (literally I don't btw, but ppl see a buzzcut and it blows their minds, like "woah that's so alternative and quirky", not knowing I only have a buzzcut so I can't pull my hair smh (trichotillomania, look it up for more info)). Though I don't smoke weed so mby I am a bit subversive and not like other art girls.

• Kat sexuality confirmed??

Oki so what @xxparanoidvampirexx is referencing here is when I posted a poll asking my followers to guess my sexuality.

These were the results!

I have been democratically declared a lesbian by popular vote. This is probably true. Listen I'm like 95% certain I'm a lesbian but you never know. My autism makes it hard for me to figure out any sense of my identity bc I often mirror ppl around me (and most of my friends are lesbians or sapphic women in sapphic relationships), you get me? We can never know. My sexuality is currently a Schrodinger's cat situation I'm afraid.

ANYHOW, to answer LMAO- I mean fair assumption. I do mostly post about women on my blog (Saldy... I got back into Adventure Time recently and my blorbo there... is a *shivers* man. I saw someone on Twitter today as that fictional middle aged men are to lesbians what Taylor Swift is is to gay men. And like. Yeah.)

• Nice person in my inbox #2 + "What's your favorite Ciel outfit?"

First of thank you so much anon for the kind words!!! I'm rly happy to hear my art makes you gayer (the only correct compliment ever). Jokes aside, but fr this is super sweet :'D thank you!!!

To answer your question, I had to go skim through this video by @/nullbutler to refresh my memory on what outfits Ciel wears throughout the anime/manga/official art.

Here's the video if you wanna watch it!

youtube

Anyhow, my personal fave fits of his are extremely basic. While I do love Ouji fashion, I dislike seeing him in most of the oufits Yana puts him in. Like yes they look lovely, slay extremely hard and fit the visual aesthetic of Black Butler perfectly- but every time I see him in these frilly oufits I'm like "this is not reflective of his personality in any way, he would not wear this on his own, it's pure camp". Don't get me wrong- I love camp, and this anime/manga is as camp as you get. So while I love the more campy frilly oufits he wears aesthetically (and those are way prettier), I perfer when he's in stuff like this:

Like yes, these outfits are objectively less interesting and pretty- but I see stuff like this and I'm like yeah that's him. If Sebastian dropped dead and couldn't pick out his clothes anymore, this is what he would wear on his own accord methinks.

• STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD 😭

Here's my live reaction of reading your ask @porfiriea :

What do you mean?? You were 6?? I doubt you watched my 2014 MS Paint animation era, I assume you found my channel during 2016-2017 at earliest (my Undertale and Yan Sim animation era). I refuse to believe you were born in the 2010s. Nuh-uh. No. Not happening. Fake news.

Jokes aside, but it's always cool to see ppl be like "oh I watched your stuff b4, I didn't know this Tumblr user was you!" It's a strange feeling!! Makes me feel like I did leave a mark on the animation side of YouTube. Feels nice! :'D but also old. And I'm only 20!! How will I feel when I'm 30 or 40?? Will I just turn to dust on the spot??

• Grelle's gender masterpost update

I'm so sorry anon, but I completely lost interest in this topic T_T! Plus even if I ended up making a masterpost, it wouldn't be fully accurate (or at least- I wouldn't be able to verify its authenticity completely), as I don't speak Japanese. So I would have to go off of Google translate and translations by English speaking fans who understand Japanese. And I don't wanna talk too much abt Japanese queer culture either. Even though I did a ton of research, I'm not Japanese and I never went to Japan! So I'd rather not risk spreading any potential misinfo. Sorry to let you down ;;!

• Another YouTube viewer spotted me in the wild!

Omg you spotted me!! In the wild!! That animation was crazyy, bc I made it rly fast and rly didn't expect it to do well. But I remember it did super well during the first day (got 100k views on the first day it was wild), and while I love that old video, I'm like. Rly? That one blew up?? Out of all my other ones?? I mean the idea was creative! But I feel I half assed it a little, I barely animated anything for it outside the headbop tweening and blinking animation XD. Mby I'm being too harsh on 14 year old Kat here. Nahh I'm not, I felt the same when I posted it innitially as well. But hey I still love that vid. Love the style I drew in at the time, I was still using a mouse for everything back then. Love the colors too! Mby I should remake it one of these days. Mby!!!

If anyone wants to watch the animation @gentle-starlight is refering to:

youtube

• Umineko time

@anawkwardlady This is the universal Umineko fandom experience I'm afraid. Being sad over Beato and wishing she was vibing (after you learn abt... the horrors...) XD

• ???

I'm so very concerned and do not know what this means or what this is refering to. I'm afraid O_O @hononyan what does this mean...

• What happened to my old Tumblr blog

It's completely ok to ask anon! In truth, I have this rly bad habit where I delete social media accounts when I'm having a bad mental health moment. It's always an impulsive decision I end up regretting. I deleted my old Tumblr in early 2021 I'm pretty sure, and I'm still so sad about it. I wish I didn't delete it. I had that blog since 2015 and now it's gone like poof. I can't get it back and I'm always emo abt it.

I might make like, an archive or something of my old art one day. I mean I still have most of it saved on my computer, but it would be nice to have all of it in one place publically again (it's always good to have stuff backed up somewhere)! Adding that to my to-do list XD

Oh and the worst part? I can't use my old username on Tumblr (Katrinci). Someone else took it. A BLANK EMPTY BLOG. I'm so mad. I'm soooooo mad give it back to meeee.

• THE END!

And with that I have answered all the asks I had in my inbox! Well, all the questions and stuff, I still have other stuff in my inbox like art requests but I'll get to that some other time if I feel like doing any of those! In any case, tysm for being patient everyone! Ik it took me very long to reply but I hope my responses were worth it! I wish all of you a nice day! My hand hurts from typing owie.

#📬 askbox #i talk abt sm stuff in this post holy cow.#it even has some art/animation advice bc some ppl asked for that so do read this post if it interests u!#oki DONE.#Youtube

35 notes · View notes

leonbastralle · 2 months

Text

GAMES I PLAYED IN 2023 - SECOND HALF-ISH

here's part 2 of my little review of my 2023 games! somehow this is even more indie than the first half and honestly a lot of games w nonexistent fandoms on tumblr so be the change u want to see in the world i guess!

old man's journey: this is a rly short indie game with an interesting, though very repetitive puzzle mechanic that follows an old man as he goes on an important journey - literally but also figuratively by coming to terms with his past, and at some point the two end up being the same thing. the art style is truly lovely and unique, it gives me big children's book vibes, and the soundtrack is beautiful and touching and so is the story and the ending itself. as i said, the mechanic and actual gameplay could be expanded on, but i knew this going in and played it mostly for the vibes and in that it did not disappoint.

the last campfire: when i talked my wife into playing this i told her it's basically the pacifist puzzle version of dark souls and it truly is. you play as a little ember on their final journey to the last campfire, where all embers go when their light begins to fade. the path is challenging and a lot of embers give up. they become forlorn. it's your desire to help them, if they let you. this game is heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time, such a gentle and touching story with a cast of diverse, likeable characters. the puzzles are all in all pretty doable, though they can get pretty intense at times, but there is a story only mode to remedy that! this one definitely is going on my all time favorites list.

lemon cake: who were you before you wandered into this bakery? doesn't matter, because the ghostified previous owner is now holding you hostage as her successor. this is a little sim/time management game w a super cute style where you upgrade your bakery, cafe and garden to keep making new delicious looking treats and serving your customers in the best way possible until you are worthy of your predecessor's famous lemon cake recipe. this game, as games of this variety tend to do, gets a bit stressful if you want to serve all of your customers before they get angry and leave while also needing to keep an eye on your ingredients and ovens and displays. i really liked all the upgrade options that make your life easier, and i loved combining all the cute pastries into new menus every other day or so to keep customers happy. a bit expensive for the amount of gameplay you get out of it but definitely worth it on a sale!

the gardens between: this game follows a pair of childhood friends through their memories together as they prepare for the move that one of them is about to go through and the inevitable goodbye that will precede it. super touching game with a really cool and unique puzzle mechanic in which you manipulate time and objects at different times throughout the puzzles to get to the solution. can make you kind of dizzy because the levels are built like spirals so the camera does a lot of spinning, but i'm sensitive to this and was fine when i went slow and took breaks.

book of travels: hoooo boy this is a big one. this game is marketed as a tmorpg (because the servers are TINY) and it definitely makes it work. most of this game is just exploring around, doing little tasks and finding your way since the game doesn't tell you at all what to do, it's all up to how you play it. do you want to do some combat? figure out what the fuck happened in kasa, the closed capital? become a fisherman? just trade and collect cool looking things? the braided shore is your oyster and it is a beautiful one with the painterly art style and great music and ambiance. still in early access and therefore quite buggy sometimes, but definitely one of my faves w a lot of potential.

capybara spa: made by the same person as lemon cake, you can really see the similarities in terms of the cutesy style, but i think it's a lovely thing to look at. this is just a little clicker where you run a spa for capybaras and their little critter friends and keep levelling up to add more and more spa options and extras to give them the special treatment they deserve! i assume this game could get a bit overwhelming since there's a lot to keep an eye on at all times, but there are no time constraints and no punishment so you can take your time and get sucked in for hours, which this game is very good at doing.

tiny echo: in this point and click game you play as a funky little guy w an eye for a head who delivers letters to their spirit inhabitants with a minimal amount of puzzling involved. i mainly played it because i wanted to check out more games by the book of travels devs, and it was a nice experience, though it also doesn't really stand out for me. very short game, maybe a bit short for the price, but i played it from a shared library so skdjfhksdjf

cosmic wheel sisterhood: i got nothing bad to say about this one. you play as an exiled fortune telling witch who breaks after years of solitude and forms a forbidden pact. the cast of witches (and other creatures) is diverse, i liked both the characterizations and the interactions between characters (also a lot of them are very hot so that helps). the big mechanic of this game is that you use elemental energy to craft your own tarot cards from a selection of card backgrounds and elements and then you use these to tell people's fortunes, which in turn gives you more energy. depending on your selections, the cards will have unique names and different meanings, and i enjoyed seeing all the cards i or others could come up with. the story is intense and emotional, but to me, definitely in a good way. though there are several outcomes and so far i've only tried one. definitely replay value there. just be wary because despite including trigger warnings, they forgot one for cancer so be informed and do not be like me ADJHKAJSDHA

planet zoo: i tried this after i saw my wife play it because growing up i was crazy about zoo empire and zoo tycoon. i don't have much to say about this one because though you have a whooooole bunch of freedom in designing your zoo, the enclosures and even every single building, that freedom was a bit overwhelming for me so i never ended up rly getting into it. also not a huge fan of big capitalism expansion packs system, but hey. it definitely is a pretty, very neat game.

cats & dogs organized neatly: it's like static tetris. but with animals. you click on them and they bark and meow and you can SPIN THEM MANY TIMES as jazzy music plays in the bg. as you go you unlock more funky little boys n girls and they all have funny little bios and names. i broke my brain on some levels but didn't mind looking up some solutions in favor of the vibe! i enjoyed both of these and will definitely play the birds sequel that's set to come out this year! another german dev shoutout these were great games. they're very small and quite cheap but you can also get these on sale for like 2 euros KSJFHAKSFA

toem: truly the year of photography games for me, but i think vibe wise this one was my favorite. just a funky lil guy in a black and white world going on their first photography pilgrimage to toem, the famed natural phenomenon of their world. i loved all the little quests, the different worlds and the endless filter options and the soundtrack was great too. honestly greatly recommend, i don't own this game but i plan to buy it to replay!

pupperazzi: yet another photography game! this one's all about dogs, and it's delightful and wonky and just a good casual time with less story elements than the other mentioned photography games. not groundbreaking but great fun.

luna the shadow dust: this game follows a young apprentice mage back up the tower that he's grown up and studied in to face the consequences of his past mistakes. lovely art style, music, and puzzle mechanics, especially the use of light and shadow. i've wanted to play this one for a while and i'm really glad i did, i liked the story a lot even though it got quite sad.

alba: WAIT this one too is a photography game that i honestly might like even more because its story is so touching. you play as alba who is visiting her grandparents for the summer. the natural reserve on their island is about to be sold to be turned into a hotel, so her and her friend decide to start a petition to save it and help clean up the island and rescue animals in need as well as documenting the wildlife to change people's minds! truly one of the most heartwarming games i played in my life, 10/10 i cried at the sad part sdjkhksd

röki: this one's...a lot. the main character of this game, tove, lives in a little cabin with her dad and her very whimsical little brother who she's basically taking care of on her own because her dad has been incredibly depressed since his wife passed away. when a mythical creature attacks their house and abducts her little brother, tove has to enter a magical mirror world. there she has to help all the other mythical creatures in hopes of reawakening the forest spirits, who have been plagued by nightmare parasites, and finding a way to get her brother back. lovely puzzles and wintery vibes, but a truly heartbreaking story that gets more and more messed up every time she faces a nightmare parasite and with it, more of her past and the events that lead to her mother's death. despite the heavy undertones this is still a good game if you're ok with some tragedy and slight horror elements askjfhakjsfas

stardew valley: i forgot to add this one in the previous post bc i actually played it in early 2023. not my first time and will not be my last time either. still a queen among farming sim peasants and i'm looking forward to restarting our little farm w my wife after the next big update!

#gaming year in review #my games #this one got so long it refused to let me put the bullet points #but oh well its mostly for me anyway #if anyone reads all of this ur a champ #(i know my wife will hi baby i love you ty for supporting my gamer girl journey)

9 notes · View notes

jodeeeart · 3 months

Note

Hello Jodie, I was curious about your work on Black Mass Rising. How did you manage to do it without burning out, and what did you take into account to keep things simple. Thank you for gracing our eyes with your art

Hey nonny,

Thanks for the ask! Honestly, I am not so sure I did escape without some burnout. I was completely exhausted by the end of it! I was working on BMR over lockdown so the stress of it was kind of amplified. I made a few mistakes that I wouldn’t make again but by far the biggest one - I took on other work alongside it. If working on that book taught me anything, it’s the limits of what I am capable of haha! I would never load myself up like that again. I think it took me around a year and a half after I had handed in the finals to truly feel reconnected to any creative desire of my own. I don’t think I was fully burned out as I continued to work over that period, but it felt like I was at a distance from what I was making in a weird way. I think another contributing factor was that it just wasn’t my baby. Perhaps if that level of labour had been in service of my own idea and vision, I may have felt very differently at the end of the project. That all sounds very doom and gloom I know but I did learn a lot about economy, working under pressure and time management, those skills have transferred to other projects! I have since had the opportunity to work on some motion comics and animated 2.5D stuff on Valorant map reveals and New World cinematics. Being able to juggle many tasks at once definitely came in handy! Same with some concepting jobs I have had since too, I have developed my own economic shorthand which answers the other part of your question about style. I was delivering 3 fully painted pages a week to the editor which necessitated a much simpler visual! It was all about reduction in the right places. Big shapes and readable forms with focus on expressions and body language to assist the dialogue and narrative. Creating character designs that were distinct from one another but not too complex that they would require loads of detail on every pass. Theo Prasidis (Author) wanted to give the book a more European feel, less like something you might get from one of the big two so we leaned into a more painterly and looser vibe. That got a little waffles there but I hope that answer was useful to you in some way at least!

#asks #replies

12 notes · View notes

el-pada · 2 years

Note

I dont wanna come off as pushy, but someday could you do a speed-paint video please? Ive asked like 20 tumblr artists key facts on learning stuff and like 11 of them went “speed-paints”, and your shit(affectionate) is cool so yea sorry for long ask bye gn I'm tired.

the few speedpaints ive recorded are heavy enough to crash my computer when i try to load them so have a set of stages in my drawings instead

sketch: i lay down the composition and body language, if im feeling confident ill also plan values but i didn't in this case. i try to keep a very loose vibe as the more layers to lineart the more stiff the characters can feel

lineart: shit gets cleaned up, characters and background defined, keep background, characters and foreground linearts on different layer groups, you'll thank me later

flats: the ugliest stage in my opinion but necessary, start planning a light source for the next step

base shadows: simple as well, just shade based on light source and bouncing light, you can also do some rendering on some parts. i like to do my initial shading without multiply layers as it gives it a bit of a painterly look

coloring the lineart: helps pull the piece together and add a sence of depth, this is also why we separated the lineart layers so they work more smoothly without cutting of colors

now i would consider this done but i wanted to change the mood so we now go onto extra stuff

here i did some heavy hue altering to a colder atmosphere, mostly using hue shift and lighting settings on editing

multiply layers are your friends for dramatic shadows, use them wisely, i actually erased them in mariza's hair to make it stand out

lighting time to make the shadows stand out more, remember that its also going to reflect on surfaces near them so keep a track or those. i used glow layers for this

value check! something that should be done across the entire process, helps you track your shadows and lights without the colors getting in the way. use it to avoid muddy areas of greys on your art

mess around with some settings and gradient maps and boom! you got your fully done ilustration, theres a lot i didnt touch on like painting rendering and some extra pizzaz i like to add but im running out of image capacity and time so i hope this helped

happy drawing!

#pada asks #my art #idk how to explain art stuff so this is a bit of a mess #but so is my art process to i guess it works out in the end #long reads #long post #art advice #art tutorial #tutorial #digital art #ilustration #artists on tumblr

214 notes · View notes

golden--doodler · 11 months

Text

I SAW ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE.

This is my official warning for extreme spoilers because I want to give my full, uncensored thoughts.

However, before getting into all of that, I wanted to say beforehand that this movie is a part one. It ends in a cliffhanger which caught me completely off-guard, and I just want to tell people who haven't seen it yet that this is only the beginning of this particular story. If anyone wants to watch this movie at home when it comes out on video/streaming and just catch the conclusion in theaters (or at least I hope it's the conclusion) because that would be more satisfying to them, I want them to have that ability, and be aware of this.

Okay, now getting into the actual movie, oh my god it was freaking incredible 🥳. I want this movie's art style more than anything. Somehow they improved upon the magnificent, ground-breaking animation style of the first, and made it even better! Gwen's universe has this super cool, almost painterly art style (which is the best way I can describe it) and everyone moves in such a fluid, distinct way.

And speaking of Gwen, I love how the movie opens with her and briefly shows what her relationship was like with her dad and Peter. It makes it all the more sadder knowing what Peter's inevitable fate is. However, the moment Gwen reveals herself as Spider-Woman to her dad is even sadder because despite everything, he's still afraid of her and everything that's happened, and it's absolutely gut-wrenching. I really want to give the girl a hug.

Not only that, but the fact that they used a joke that wasn't even originally going to be in the first movie (the whole bagel joke was just something made off-the-cuff that ended up making it into the final cut because it made everyone laugh so much) and turned the person that said joke happened to into a genuinely tragic character and menacing supervillain is nothing short of massively impressive. I adore the villain in this movie because of how genuinely terrifying he ends up being after being shown in the beginning to seem like just another sad bank robber. By the way, that entire scene is freaking hilarious. And the way that his entire life was "ruined" by Miles and the reactor, so he in turn wants to ruin Miles' life, is so awful, yet one can definitely understand where he's coming from. I can't wait to see what they do with him in part two, and what that final battle's going to be like.

I love how they reintroduced Peter B. Parker, and they gave him a daughter who is the cutest little girl, oh my gosh. The way he's such a proud, excited dad, showing off photos of her on his phone, is the most wholesome thing ever. And his whole heart-to-heart with Miles was really sweet, too. I can't believe meeting Miles is what caused him to want to actually be a father after originally divorcing MJ because he was too afraid to be one 🥺

Miguel is also an interesting character, and this exchange was fascinating:

Gwen: We're supposed to be the good guys!

Miguel: We are the good guys.

I don't want him to become a villain, exactly, but it's clear he's misguided, and I'm sure he'll continue making rash decisions and hunting down Miles in part two. I think his reasoning for wanting to sacrifice one person to save a ton more gave me Infinity War vibes and I'm wondering what they'll do with him next.

Oh yes, and I loved Pavitr Prabhakar, the Indian Spider-Man variant. He was effortlessly talented and also just a genuinely nice guy. I always love it when effortlessly talented people are also genuinely nice. They could've made him a jerk so easily, but they didn't, and I appreciate that.

I also want to praise this movie for the fact that it gave Miles' mother more to do. I adore her speech to Miles about wanting what's best for him, and that there will be people in the future who don't believe in him like his parents do, so he needs to look out for himself and "that little boy". She's such a fun character and a wonderful mother.

This is usually the spot where I'd put any criticisms, but honestly, the only thing I could really say in that regard is because it's a part one, there is definitely a lot of setup. But all in all, I think it's great even on its own, and it leaves you wanting more.

Okay, okay, and the ending. I can't believe a variant of Miles is the Prowler, and I have no idea what that means for the next movie, but I'm so intrigued to find out. God, they really got me, hook, line, and sinker.

There's a lot more I could say about this movie, and I might make another post to add more thoughts that I forgot to add here, but I cannot emphasize enough or put into enough words how much I love it. If you don't mind cliffhangers, go see it in theaters to support it.

#across the spiderverse #definitely one of the highlights of the summer #i'm so happy it's out even though i'm not happy about how long we'll have to wait for the actual conclusion #i'm genuinely curious about other people's thoughts are about it #i just love animation and the first movie and this one just completely reinvented the wheel

6 notes · View notes

exp123mon · 7 months

Text

Watched more Digimon Frontier~

12 - Roar, Vritramon! Defeat Gigasmon! -like I said before, seems like Koji can now control (or better control) Garmmon. I guess when the stakes are higher you better control raging crazy monster spirits. -Little more snippets of Tomoki's history and he snaps Takuya out of his craziness! I like that their relationship is two ways and not just the "big brother" constantly protecting or bailing out the little one -Vritramon's vision actually perceiving things as more scary/dangerous than they are is a nice touch; anybody would freak out if the world suddenly just didn't look right -OOOOH so those puzzle things are called amidakuji--Amida Forest in DW1 makes more sense now lol. -Takuya learns how to control Vritramon AND slide evolution. I guess it just comes naturally once you can evolve. Why wouldn't it? -HMM. "Defeat Gigasmon"… he did. But Grottomon escaped somewhere and DUN DUN DUN the other villains appear at last! That entire scene actually gave me the vibe of a like 80s/90s isekai for some reason. Maybe the environment and the moons? -I knew about Ranamon (in the sense that I knew she a. existed and b. is a villain) and I'm pretty sure I've seen Mercuremon before (I always thought it looks like if Rapidmon had a baby with an NGE angel haha); Duskmon is the Darkness warrior and a loner so he's gonna be the Koji analogue or foil I suppose -Not the most massively entertaining episode but it feels like a HUGE turning point plotwise so it was interesting. The threats have expanded, two Beast Spirits are actually usable now.

13 - Awaken, Seraphimon! The Secret of the Ten Warriors! -OKAY SO I don't think I've mentined before but I did notice that Seraphimon in the intro getting killed/destroyed/whatever since episode 1. So from the title alone I am intrigued. -We finally arrive at Forest Terminal, and all that's there is a Derumon making terrible noodles… wait. It puts an egg on everybody's ramen… where do EGGS come from in the Digital World? Meat grows out of the ground, so are there egg trees? "Egg plants"??? Do they grow in the ground, too, but like potatoes? Or are there just Chickenmon somewhere being mass exploited like the Kokuwamon lol -Mysterious stairway to heaven on the tree… with a super cool looking castle on top. I always love how Digimon does whatever it wants with aesthetic. So many other shows or franchises would be like "digital world… must always look like The Matrix or the inside of a computer!" Digimon's like "nah whatever looks cool" -incidentally the interior of the catle also looks very nice, love these old style painterly/crayon/pencil coloured backgrounds from older anime -I like the kids mentioning Sorcerymon looks like Wizardmon but a different colour. They're both a little antsy around one another. I dunno I feel like Frontier is doing a good job at having interactions be sensible and stuff and doing things kinda subtly. There wasn't some huge freak out or confrontation because "oh he looks like a former enemy!" or whatever, but naturally both parties are a little wary. -Seraphimon! Oh and he gets busted out of crystal prison. Oh and he drops some lore on us. Then Grottomon shows up with the gang!! oh shi--WAIT SERAPHIMON GOT EGG'D -Aww, the episode ends with the gang having their first big taste of Adventure-style trauma. "Wait people who are our friends and allies are going to die for us. :(" yep sorry kiddos that's what you get for being Digimon protags heehee -Okay but HOLY CRAP, so much happened this episode but, again, the pacing just felt so nice? There was a load of plot progression and stuff but it never felt like it was rushed or like it dragged too much. -to finish off there was a really cool shot when Ranamon first used her attack and the camera panned to the targets. She was rightside-up then it panned to the boys upside down, so it looked like the water from her attack was going "up" from the camera's perspective. It stuck out to me as a cool and creative shot.

14 - Lightning, Smash the Rock! Bolgmon's Do-or-Die Challenge -Oooooo new spirit!! -Bokomon taking care of the egg omg and Tomoki's like "looks like you're pregnant" lol -The Trailmon goes flying off a huge gap in the tracks wtf and Bokomon being all "THIS ISN'T GOOD FOR MY BABY!" had me cracking up -So it seems like the other evil dudes don't care much about Grottomon. Not surprised, seems like a consistent attitude these big anime villain groups have haha. I suppose their shtick is serving Cherubimon, though, not being bound to one another. -Mercuremon seems like the biggest asshole of them all though. He's one of THOSE characters. I dunno the name of the archetype. But all like "I'm a nasty evil bastard with no sense of fealty ohohohoho" I dunno lol -WHAMON. WHAMON IS ALWAYS FRIEND. -Arbormon's Beast form is Petaldramon, who… does nothing this ep whoops. -Bolgmon is pretty cool but feels really similar to Blitzmon, moreso than Garmmon or Vritramon do to their human counterparts. -Oh I love that Junpei gains control of his Beast spirit with the power of BEING PISSED OFF at Grottomon haha. Also GROTTOMON GETS BLASTED. He's straight up DIGITAMA'D. -It was nice that Izumi genuinely appreciates Junpei fighting so hard to get her Spirit back. No tsunderes here, thank goodness. -Once again chuckling when Bokomon is all "MY BABY!!" when the cave gets flooded haha. -WHAMON SAVES THE DAY. WHAMON FRIEND. ALWAYS. -Side(ish note), I HAVE seen there's a Patamon in Frontier… so, like, I'm assuming that's who Seraphimon's egg hatches into. Makes sense haha but we'll see.

15 - A Squid Beast Evolution! Calamaramon -Ranamon has a li'l SQUID as her computer cursor. That's such a cute detail. -IT'S A BEACH EPISODE -Bruh if those Toucanmon served me up that food I'd let them do whatever they wanted to me and my Spirit. -I dunno why but I find the whole thing with Bokomon and the egg-nancy funny. "I am eating for two" yeah me too bro but I'm just greedy haha I do feel like Neemon is just here so Bokomon can talk to somebody though. He should've hidden the digivices in his pants lol -I do feel like it's weird the kids let their guard down so much. I guess they're just tired from all the BS going on though. But. Like. YOU COULD DIE if you get caught without your Spirits!! -Oh no. The. The sexualisation. of the. 11 year old. got worse D: D: D: D: She even calls one of the swimsuits she tries on "sexy" something… wretching noises -Okay on the one hand Calmaramon being "defeated" by her own incompetence/lack of experience was super funny (not like I'd expect Ranamon to be TRULY defeated like Grottomon just was in her first battle with the kids) … but also, REALLY. REALLY. Izumi FINALLY gets her Spirit back, is the ONLY kid with her Digivice, and her first battle after not being able to fight for ages she's knocked down again. :| Like I said before this is a pattern at this point but still disappointing THIS moment of all they let it happen again… -The Toucanmon being like "lolnope not a Ranamon fan no more" at Calmaramon was def funny though.

16 - Strength Alone Isn't Enough! The Beautiful Warrior, Shutumon -OH BOY IZUMI SPIRIT EP I AM SO SCARED -The Toucanmon are pretty fun. I like that they're actually planning to sell the Digivices rather than just going "oh um sorry for being evil here's your stuff back" to the kids then vanishing forever -GOMAMON -GOMAMON -SO MANY GOMAMON EEEEEEEEE -Izumi is knocked down again D: -Izumi finds her Beast Spirit and has control over it instantly like a badass :D -Moral: strength alone isn't enough. You also need to verbally denigrate your opponent. -Oh Calmaramon leaves by… the same joke as last time… okay. Weakest two episodes so far to be honest. Like I didn't HATE them but they just felt kinda eh. A shame because I really like Izumi as a character, she just seems to get screwed over in episodes focused on her. -Ranamon is by far my least favourite character in the show so far, no contest. I like all the kids, Grottomon was pretty cool, Mercuremon is a bastard but in that kind of "love to hate" villian way. Arbormon hasn't had enough screentime for me to have a stance either way and Duskmon has literally just looked static and edgy in like, one or two still frames haha. Ranamon's just grating at this point. (I do love her voice as Calmaramon though, sounds like a character who'd be super fun to act) -ONTO AKIBA TOWN… to buy loads of weeb shit... or maybe a frosty beast spirit?!?! (I'm not watching the previews at the end of each ep btw) -YOU KNOW though Ranamon being an idol makes me suddenly wish we had a slice of life Digimon series. Like set in the Digital World, Digimon characters only, no HUGE or overarching plot of menace and fate and stuff, if if there is it's relegated to the background and a handful of important episodes (a la MLPFIM). Just these silly monsters living their day-to-day lives and the mundane drama that unfolds. That'd be cool.

#not art #digimon frontier #frontier watching

4 notes · View notes

amrv-5 · 9 months

Note

21 and 22? :)

hello!!!! and thanks for the ask!!!!! the second one especially was really really interesting to think about!!! answers below --

21. Have you ever deleted an entire scene after spending hours laboring over it? If so, why?

Surprisingly no. Or at least not that I can remember. I think everything I've spent time on for a published fic has ended up making the cut in some form or other. If I think something sucks it's usually pretty evident from the beginning that it's not working, so I reframe and go from there.

22. Do you know how your fic will end before you start writing?

Hrrghhhh. Weird. I've never thought about this before. For little oneshot things like Moved on Memory or Nothing is Real, I just sort of hang out until something feels narratively satisfying and I feel I've said all I wanted to say. Or whatever. For longer projects, uhhhhhh similarly vibes-based approach, I think. It may be relevant to say that I don't outline or plan when writing, so generally I'm as surprised about what's happening as readers are.

Maybe a better way to explain my writing process is that I think of it as more 'painterly' than narrativistic, if that makes sense? I'm concerned with images that I find affecting and relevant that convey what I want to convey, and fitting a plot framework around them (rising action, conclusion, exposition, whatever) is sort of secondary to that. Or rather I build a plot framework out of affecting images, rather than writing with a Predetermined End in Mind. A good example of this is that one of the first scenes I wrote in Somewhere to Get To is a big chunk of the last chapter -- BJ waking up to and then trying to soothe Hawkeye in the middle of a low. I didn't know where it would end up in the finished piece until maybe the last week I was actively working on S2G2 before starting to publish.

In fact "What’s going on in there, BJ thought, with as much force and direction as he could manage, looking at the side of Hawkeye’s face. He wished he could be him. Just for a day, just for an hour, even. Give him a break from whatever it was he felt in times like these. He’d lie in bed and cry for him, if he could. But he couldn’t." might have been the first thing I wrote, after the first paragraph of the story, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

#thank you this one was really interesting!!!!!#ask game

5 notes · View notes

beej-hunnicutt · 9 months

Text

Okayyy, I grabbed a bunch of this year's (plus one from December, technically two) actually like "finished drawings" and ramble abt the good, the bad, and the ugly. I just watched an artists tier their art. So yeah lol maybe I'm in the mood to ramble abt mine lol. Below the cut because...so many pictures lol.

Like, don't get me wrong, I loooooove this Frances drawing, but like. It's kinda just there. Like I feel good when I see it. But I WANT IT TO FEEL MORE AAAAA. Like I'm sure abt almost all of these, I just wish I had given it an atmosphere. I actually think this has a cute light palette it actually kinda works. But I wish I had actual lighting in it <3. Where is the vibe and scene?! I think I should go old photograph. Which is what I wanted to do, but I have no idea how. I still plan on expanding out this drawing, maybe changing it slightly, so hopefully, I will do that better!! I also kinda put this Andy with it. Because I feel kinda the same abt it. I think both lack shadows too, which goes with lack of environment. But I think the soft feel of Andy's is nice! I'm glad I colored it. And actually think I like how undefined the background it on this one. It does something for me! Oh didn't mean it, but love the contrast of the complimentary book cover! Didn't intend that, just picked a book I enjoy and think Andy would enjoy. But like that affect.

Despite really feeling like Andy is still not mixed with the background, I actually really like this one! I think toneally it has a vibe. And it's just like a portrait so I cannot complain too much!

I really enjoy this Mary and Frank piece! I love the colors and like how its kinda painterly but still heavily influenced by the sketch and it can still be seen. I like that I attempted more usage of different hues, not sticking to the main color. Like Mary's sleeve? LOVE THAT. Same with the sweater detail on Frank! I put the Kik one with it because for a quick sketch turned painting I think it is good. I like the vibe. I think I should either heavily fix it or redo it. I think if I keep going at it, I can make it a piece I am really proud of!

Okay, admittedly, I put these together because they're kinda the same size but lol. Andy; tried something new, think I heavily failed. But I DO like the colors and like I tried texture, though you can tell I didn't know what to do with it lol. The Lincoln, this piece is rlly old, AND IT WAS BADDDD. I think the half assed fixed version is 1000% better. It's by no means perfect. I rEALLY like the shadow of his head on the pillow. But aha, just wish there was more. But overall not terrible! I like it for what it is. And has a special place for being like my first Lincoln piece that wasn't just his fatigues one. :")

LOVE THE VIBE, I like Grayscale, like the intense shadow. I think the shadows on him could be a but nicer of course. And I do think his hair was kinda poorly done but oh well. I am not the biggest fan of his face? It's not bad, but I think I have done better John faces. I do know; I detailed his face in color and I think I like that better lol.

Lincoln, like, I like the face and coloring of that but it's just so meh. It's a figure like I always do. I like the coloring a lot more when I went back and added deeper shadows. But idk. It's okay </3. And oh!! I group a different Lincoln picture with this one, it has no background but the shadows on his uniform are SO good. It made me loooovve the drawing. And is still a fave. It is what inspired me to add deeper shadows here.

And I've never shared this version of this John drawing. It's a shaving cream prank. Dear God. Help me. I love how John's body turned out. I think his face is nice; its okay. I think I sucked at again giving him a shadow. I couldn't commit to the main shadow and I think it just kinda sucked all life from it. With the Lincoln drawing I don't like the background. With the John one I am torn. I think I should have detailed the ground more? Maybe? Idk. These two, Frank by the water and Andy reading, were all close together and done in January, and they all kinda have the same bckgrnd theme. Idk how I feel abt that choice. For the guys' anyways.

Actually seeing all of these were nice! Because I actually do like nearly all of these pieces! And I feel nervous but very inspired to keep trying to motivate myself to finally take that final step. And maybe try to play into that for the entire piece, not just adding it at the end...and not adding it. I rlly want to try to get a bit more creative too, like interesting things not just person standing there. But idk.

If you read all of this. Omg thank you sorry for rambling your ear off!!! 🫂💗

2 notes · View notes

thursdayplaid · 2 years

Text

Ep 1 Love Between Fairy and Devil

The time has come! That’s such a big gif! I have a big mood, let’s do it!

I was going to do a live watch to amuse the people who have been waiting for me to finally get on the train to beautiful art and I’m finally on it! (@dongfangqingcang)

* I love the sliding doors, and other types of archetecture to show the passage of time.

* I also love intro art.

* The biggest complaint I’ve seen with xianxia lately is that it doesn’t make sense - but then I love Guardian so that isn’t that much of an issue with me - but this magic world makes a lot of sense. Everything is simple with just enough hand waving, the destiny books make sense, I like their little leaf boxes, whoever came up with using those is a genius.

* The actual set dressing is nice too, you can’t have the Heavens look cheap or silly if it’s all super simple!

* I love the fairy in charge of the destiny books and I can see how being in charge of something like that can turn you into a depressed wine aunt

* The story is also complex in the way that it’s very clearly not all what it depicts itself to be.

* Orchid is so charming in her relentless optimism despite hardship, she’s such a sweetpea

* While she clearly has a lot of learning and growing to go, she still has enough emotional maturity to be enjoyable

* I have watched too much Guardian, I trust the Emperor and his story 0%

* I love the CGI too, CGI always runs the risk of looking awful in ten years, but it feels like there’s enough real solid stuff, and that it’s painterly so that it won’t be unbearable.

* I am not kidding when I say I want a series that is all just Heavenly Clerks and Archivists, give me some support staff doing heavenly deeds. An army marches on it’s stomach, but civilization survives on admins and manual workers.

* It’s clear that Orchid has a big crush, but the guy did literally save her life (as far as she and I know) so it feels like it’s pretty understandable

* Good for her for standing up for herself even though her bullies seem to interpret her strength as cringe

* I love how most of the buildings we see have a sort of boat feel and I love that, it feels very unique

* The fact she has a chronic illness and that there is a stated division between born immortals and cultivated immortals in a subtle way is refreshing, most dramas talk around it

* She’s such a brave girl returning the good that was done to her

* I want to state again that I 0% trust the emperor or what he says

* Look at the prince, what a good boy

* I watch enough dramas, and have seen enough painted opening credits that I can guess one of the plot twists, but I think more than it’s value being a secret, it’s in the little Orchid learning herself

* Insert magic kiss montage

* I love it, the vibe, the frost, the island, the sneeze to spooky forest dreamworld

* I do like that she’s still trying to do what’s right even when she’s scared

#love between fairy and devil #Little Orchid?#More like Sweet Pea

14 notes · View notes

maybe-drawing · 1 year

Text

Inktober 2022: A reflection

This year I did Luna ‘s (who is an amazing artist!! Check them out on Twitter!!) Inktober. Spoiler, I did not do all the days as I got sick halfway through and then just stopped lol. However, it was remarkable good practice and I learned a lot! One might say you can see me improving 👀 It gets better, promise!

Here the full prompt list:

by https://twitter.com/LunaIsAnArtist

1. Sprout

yes this is bdubs fanart, (I’ll do a separate post with the fandom one and tag them there) Also learned about gradient maps!

2. Ladder

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to render stone, and it really shows

3. Glory

I do not dislike this one, however Clip Studio Paint's weird artistic render line feature really stole the show here lol

4. Investigation

Played with gradient maps again. The color is sure something!

5. Rosemary

At this point, I was wondering if a completely lineless painting style was something I even like? And honestly it has its appeals, and I think ill keep playing with it, but I missed having lines.

6. Home

Them <3 @liebesamateur

7. Boots

I love this little buddy!! Look at them!! Lovely!! Also this was when I decided to return to a more painterly lined look for my art again :D

8. Voice

This is one of my absolute favorites!!! The light hello???? also the tiny pumpkin on the hat :D

9. Fragment

Did a study of a lemon and went you know what would be fucked up

10. Ranunculus

this looks so much better than it has any right to!! Indie game vibes hello?!?

11. Moss

Bdubs fanart again, but look at him, he's just a little guy! Very much based on countless designs I’ve seen all over. (if you know the OG lemme know) Certified creature.

12. Worth

I don't like this one... The concept is there, but the execution is sloppy and kinda off-putting. The only thing I kinda like it the blood at the very top opening.

13. Float

I love this very much not anatomically correct baby!!!

14. Poppies

I mean long arms!

15. Zodiac

I’m torn bc on one hand the background is stunning, I love the colors. On the other hand, this would have looked too much better lineless, and the lens sky reflection is just lazy and doesn't fit with the rest of the style.

16. Evolution

GHOST CRAB!! I downloaded some new brushes, and it was just sooo much fun.

17. Meadow

I really like everything except the “flowers”. The clouds and background/foundation is solid, but the weird flower brush is too sharp and it just doesn't work. Also, the colors of the flowers are supposed to be in shade and idk man

18. Examination

Now this one could make more sense, like perspective wise and the highlights are a bit wack. However, it's really cool and I like it a lot. The bluish tint for the glass, the goldish bronze, the background yes!!

19. Reflection

The poses for this kept just not working out. I couldn't get the angles, nothing made sense, so I made them silhouettes! And it works nicely. I like this one. I am kinda starting to overuse that background contrast thingy, but it's fiiiiiinnnne. Also, the curtain??? The red pops so well hello, its just bam, and it deserves to do that.

20. Bullet

It's a bullet train! Get it? Anyway, I really like the burn effect for this one and I wanted to make it a spooky train. One thing I'd improve is how the likes are fading into the smoke, it doesn't look quite right.

22. Bones

This is kinda my burnout point and it shows. The line thickness is all over the place, I didn't work on this very much and just slapped some things on there and put it up. I'd love to draw a proper pile of bones someday, but this wasn't it.

23. Mutation

I do kinda like this one, and I don't have any major complaints. I just remember not really feeling doing Art™ at that time.

29. Wyvern

I sketched this the next day and was so normal about it. Idk if this is really a Wyvern, but it looks cool! I really like the frame and breaking it. It gives a nice break and depth!

#Freddy draws #inktober #inktober 2022 #lunatober 2022 #overall i really had fun #even with the stress of getting very sick and traveling for 2 days straight after recovery #and then walking through a river for 4 hours for class #absolute insane experience I tell you #crossed 3 states in under 24 hours #beware long post #tw blood #tw organs #tw body horror #tw eye horror #tw bones #tw skeleton #my art #original art

2 notes · View notes