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Forlorn Knight

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what’s your painting process?

THIS IS A HARD QUESTION! Because I am a lil chaotic in my personal work. My best personal pieces can vary wildly from me painting randomy shapes in black and white and slowly turning it into something by getting more and more detailed in every pass at it, like I did here:

To an almost completely 3D render with a paint over, like I did here:

Or anything in between those to processes that you can imagine, tbh, I've probably tried that as well. BUT, I'll tell you what I've been doing lately in my professional stuff to keep the quality and style a lil less all over the place.

Step 1: Plan a pose and lighting in Daz 3D.

The models I usually use for this are modified Victoria 9 and Michael 9 because those are the most anatomically correct. But you can totally just use the free Genesis 9 or Genesis 8 models that come packaged with the free software and it souldn't really give you any issues.

Step 2: Posterize your refrence until it's 3 Values, then use that a reference to create a 3 value thumbnail, planning the arrangement of element in your painting and the lighting, midtone, and shadow colours.

Step 3: Create a duplicate of the thumbnail and apply a black and white filter. Put the original thumbnail in a seperate window or on a reference board or something to look at, so you don't stray too far from the points of contrast and lighting in that. Define your hard and sharp edges in the black and white painting, using your favourite hard edged painting brush and your favourite soft smudging tool. then fil in the values that exist in between your 3 key values. You can usually find these correct in-between values by eye drop selecting from the gradient in your newly softened edges.

Step 4: Detail and paint until your black and white painting looks like it would be a passable greyscale painting by your own standard. This one is hard to give specific instructions on how I detail because I just look at things I dont like and fix them until the things I don’t like are minimal.

Step 4: Add base colours using gradient maps, colour balance, selective colour, or curves. If you don't know which out of these is your favourite method for colouring greyscale, I encourage experimenting. Sometimes I myself use different methods even withing the same painting, because they all have their lil quirks of how they work and the colour results.

Step 5: Render. This one is, again, hard to discribe as it's mostly just looking at things you don't like and fixing them until you're happy.

Step 6: Add lighting effects. Here you can see I added bloom, jittered the hue in the shadow and light affected areas to be warmer or cooler, added glare to the glass, and then, dust particles being hit by the light, a VERY transparent colour dodge layer where the light is coming down from an off screen chandelier, then since all these lighting effects washed the character in the dress out too much, I went in with a softlight layer and a low opacity brush to do colour correction.

Step 7: Post processing. Add a noise layer, smart sharpened the image, added a high pass filter on overlay and set it to 20% yada yada now if one were to print the full res it would look nice.

And that's basically the process right now. But if you ask me again in a month I'm probably going to have changed the way I do things again because I'm always developing the process more and more as I go. I hope this answered some questions for people, was informative, or in any way helped.

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Thank you for sharing this!!!!

Night Stroll

"The streets of Eridia are dangerous at night."

"Oh please! I take night strolls through Lowtown all the time. Nothing's ever happened to me."

"Then I suppose you better thank the heavens. Something's lookin' out for you."

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THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL

Night Stroll

"The streets of Eridia are dangerous at night."

"Oh please! I take night strolls through Lowtown all the time. Nothing's ever happened to me."

"Then I suppose you better thank the heavens. Something's lookin' out for you."

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Cold Carnage

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Thank youuuuu!

Drew 24h increments on the schedule posts to make it easier to see what times each block represent!

Edit: check the reblogs for the names of the fonts!!

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I’m so happy to be included thank you! 😭🥹

Do you know any touchstarved artists that are very good?

heh...ur looking right at em...

jk. strap in. ur getting my entire following actually. this is a bit now. to everhone reading this i half heartedly apologise BUT ALSO I FUCKING LOVE YOUR 🫵 ART AND WHAT YOU DO FOR THE FANDOM 🫵

what do you mean there's a 50 person limit. i'm not done yet.

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Flattened Like a Pancake

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Maid Ais is a guiding light in the sky that brings us all together 😂🥹

Hello! I already follow you on BlueSky and like, I was so mad when you showed up on my Tumblr feed and I wasn’t following you! So that has been remedied lol. Your Ais Maid has graced my eyes.

I love you *flies away*

Hello helloooo🥹💞 *catches you!!!* Maid Ais led you to me it seems hahsgdhsh

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I have been following you since, I forgot, I think maybe 2023 on X/Twitter. Found your acc from your caeheng/dancae fanart. I really like your art style, especially the way you create your line work and the gray scale in like manga style, it's so "✨crisp✨". May I know what brush and software do you use?

Hello helloooo🥹 sobss thank youuu! I hope you're enjoying my new content now~ o(*￣︶￣*)o

I have shared the CSP brushes here! All of them are free to use~

All those brushes can make your lines looks ✨crispy✨ BUT I have a way to make the line more ✨✨crispier✨✨!

It's to turn off the 'Anti-aliasing'! Usually ppl have this on so the lines appear much smoother. But in this case, we want it off to get a more jagged and pixelated outline✍️

Here's how you do it!🫵

If you already has 'Tool Property' on your workspace, simple toggle it off by clicking the first option. If you can't find the option, go to the setting, search for Anti-aliasing and click the box so it will always visible in your Tool Property panel!

Can't find Tool Property? I got chu🫵

All you have to do is go to the 'Window' menu, find and click the 'Tool Property'.

And there you have it!!~ and you can start follow the first step. It's just easy as that👌~ I hope this little tutorial helps you!

Have fun drawing my fellow artists~~~~✨

Ofc I had to draw this silly guy.

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I love this thank you for the unexpected food

Have you ever wondered what the characters do every day? Now's your chance to find out!

Mhin works so hard because they have family to feed 🐟

What do you think the other characters get up to? 💭 Let us know your guesses below!

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i've love watching the touchstarved fandom create theories, even with what little lore is currently available. never change guys, never change

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i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.

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it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

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ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up

suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this