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is this bdg’s fault? @criticalcoruscant‘s? the world may never know

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is this bdg’s fault? @criticalcoruscant‘s? the world may never know

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[ID: A messy digital sketch of Opal and Ted from Exandria Unlimited. Opal is shown in profile, wearing a severe expression. Ted - a girl with similar features to Opal but with her hair loose and covering half of her face - has her chin on Opal’s shoulder and one hand, sporting a round opal on the back, pressed to Opal’s chest. A golden thread looped around Opal’s neck disappears into Ted’s palm, and Opal’s hand is hovering above her sister’s. They’re colored in a pink gradient that gets darker as it moves across from Opal to Ted.]

all i did was try my best / that’s the kind of thanks i get

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[ID: A digital sketch from of Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast from Critical Role. Caleb is embracing Essek around the shoulders and has his mouth to Essek’s cheek, and Essek, standing a little awkwardly, is hugging him back with one arm. He’s wearing a sunhat and gardening gloves with little roses on them.]

i don’t care what consequence it brings

i have been a fool for lesser things

i want you so bad

i think you ought to know that

i intend to hold you for the longest time

today’s blame goes out to @fluffmonger and @callibop for making me believe that Billy Joel wrote a shadowgast song

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Seriously, where did Steve find that armor? I hope he didn’t steal it from an aggressive warrior or something…I don’t want him to get in trouble, ya know? It’s been a year since this tutorial is on Patreon, so I’ll post it for everyone now! (I have to work on a reptile scales or transparent materials tutorial one day tho)

Underwater tutorial: https://darhak.tumblr.com/post/642964456883765248/steve-why-is-he-always-like-this-metal-tutorial

Fire tutorial: https://darhak.tumblr.com/post/186828219798/thats-my-first-and-probably-not-last-art

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Electricity tutorial

I don’t know how to deal with Steve honestly. Things are getting out of control at every tutorial… It’s been almost a year this tutorial is on Patreon and I don’t have a lot of new things to post, so enjoy!

You may ask yourself why don’t I post often… Well! I got a job in a 2D animation studio (Loomi animation) as a background artist! The team is awesome and I love the projects. I basically draw all day, so I draw less as a hobby but still. (I might post some 3D animation too in the next months, we’ll see). Anyway prepare yourself because I feel like my artskills are improving a lot since I started at the studio ahah!

Metal tutorial

Fire tutorial

Underwater tutorial

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[ID: colored digital sketch of Caleb Widogast and Essek Thelyss from Critical Role. Caleb and Essek are sitting on the floor, Caleb’s back propped against an armchair and Essek in his lap with his head resting on Caleb’s chest. There’s one bengal cat loafing on the armchair and another white kitten flopping off a floating platform in the foreground. At the top of the image is a round projector, showing a field of stars above them all. The sketch is colored in warm reds and purples.]

special delivery for @essektheylyss, who was enthusiastic enough about my floortime sketches to make me polish this one up a bit 

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EPISODE 140 SPOILERS TAKE NOTE

so i may be working on something

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[ID: a digital sketch of Essek Thelyss from Critical Role in limited gray/purple/black palette. He’s faced away from the viewer with his head turned to look in their direction, one hand raised daintily in front of him and wearing a smug expression. There’s a speech bubble coming from him with the text “i’d like to see you try”.]

for the expressions thing: G2 for Essek in color palette trashcan ^.^

congratulations on picking the shadowhand default expression XD

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[ID: colored digital sketch of Essek Thelyss from Critical Role on a background of dot paper. He’s laying belly-down on the floor, head tilted towards the viewer and pillowed on one elbow, and he’s wearing a shirt with puffy white sleeves and a black cloak with gold patterning at the edges and a medallion dangling from the corner. His eyes are half open and there’s a little black scribble above his head.]

on second thought, this is much more reflective of floor time

[ID: colored digital sketch of Essek Thelyss from Critical Role on a background of dot paper. He’s on his hands and knees in about a three quarters view, looking down at some papers. He is dressed casually in a loose black robe and black pants with gold trim, as well as gold disc earrings with another silver disk eclipsing them. ]

i wish i could say this was a doodle but i spent way too long on this pose because i wanted to draw Essek having some floor time

(used pierrotteau’s art as a style reference bc his Essek is very pretty,,,)

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[ID: colored digital sketch of Essek Thelyss from Critical Role on a background of dot paper. He’s on his hands and knees in about a three quarters view, looking down at some papers. He is dressed casually in a loose black robe and black pants with gold trim, as well as gold disc earrings with another silver disk eclipsing them. ]

i wish i could say this was a doodle but i spent way too long on this pose because i wanted to draw Essek having some floor time

(used pierrotteau’s art as a style reference bc his Essek is very pretty,,,)

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[ID: a messily colored digital sketch of Essek and Caleb from Critical Role. Both men are pictured in profile from the bust up. Essek is wearing a mantle with a fur collar and gold chains across his chest and dangling from a moon-shaped earring, and Caleb is wearing a striped scarf with his hair braided along the side of his head. Essek’s eyes are closed and he’s kissing Caleb on the forehead, one gloved hand cupped against the side of his head. Caleb’s eyes are also closed and he is smiling. The entire sketch is colored with a purple-to-blue gradient. ]

manifesting that head-holding energy for some more forehead kisses

(the style i’m trying here is definitely inspired by this piece from seasaltpepper that i have been staring at longingly all week because i would like to live in it)

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[ID: a messily colored digital sketch of Essek and Caleb from Critical Role. Both men are pictured in profile from the bust up. Essek is wearing a mantle with a fur collar and gold chains across his chest and dangling from a moon-shaped earring, and Caleb is wearing a striped scarf with his hair braided along the side of his head. Essek’s eyes are closed and he’s kissing Caleb on the forehead, one gloved hand cupped against the side of his head. Caleb’s eyes are also closed and he is smiling. The entire sketch is colored with a purple-to-blue gradient. ]

manifesting that head-holding energy for some more forehead kisses

(the style i’m trying here is definitely inspired by this piece from seasaltpepper that i have been staring at longingly all week because i would like to live in it)

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Quick little video tutorial! This is a method I use to block in shapes when I’m fighting the urge to polish my lineart at an early stage, especially in rough concept art that doesn’t actually need polished lineart.

I group two layers in photoshop—a rough sketch, and a flat color—and then carve out the negative space by painting into a mask on the group, instead of filling in the positive shapes. From there I can start painting and adding shading into that group, knowing that I’ve already locked down a good initial silhouette for the object/character:

It feels like oil painting, and I end up finding silhouettes/shapes in a way I wouldn’t if I was obsessively cleaning up the linework first. Digital art has a tendency to veer towards cleanliness/polish, so I love finding little opportunities for happy accidents and a bit of mess!

I used it on my unicorn piece last month, for instance, which I think would have lost a lot of its dynamism and charm if I had worried too much about doing a full ink pass:

Hope this is at all helpful!  It’s not a method I use 100% of the time, but it really helps move my process along when I do need it 👍🏼

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[ID: A colored digital sketch of Essek from Critical Role. He’s lunging into view, his right arm stretched out behind him and the other held up in a fist near his face - he looks worried, tears beading in the corner of his eyes. He’s holding something sharp in his gloved fist, coated in blood that drips down into a glowing aura of purple and red, and there’s matching blood from a cut across his cheek. Behind him are Caleb and Jester - Jester is on the left, wiping her hand across her face, and Caleb hunched over on the right.]

@essek-week day 1:  whiskey // battle

looking forward to Essek doing some Inadvisable Adventurer Things like jumping in front of your party members to protect them

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[ID: A colored digital sketch of Essek, Caleb, and Jester from Critical Role. The image refers to a scene from the FATWS trailer where Sam and Bucky are asked by a therapist to sit facing each other with their legs interlocked and talk about what aggravates them. 

On the left is Essek, hands resting on his knees and his face in profile view as he looks at Caleb. Caleb is mirroring his pose on the right with his hands in his lap, and their legs are tangled together. Both of them look annoyed and are blushing. In the back, framed between them, is Jester, grinning evilly and pressing her fingertips together. ]

that one scene from the FATWS trailer but it’s these two being forced to talk out their feelings PLEASE

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Any advice for coloring skin (a love the way you are able to color)

Hi thank you!! Sorry this took so long to answer, I kind of realized I had to relearn how to paint because I don't full on do it a lot ajsbfndncn here are some general points that feed into my thought process when I'm picking colors!

This was a bit of a learning process, especially when it came to breaking down exactly why a color is the way it is, so in addition here's some videos I found helpful.

Painting skin tones by Marco Bucci, who has a ton of really easy to understand videos on his channel about understanding light and color

This Dave Greco video, which I think is worth putting on in the background as he explains his process while actually painting.

Note: digital art tutorials tend to be pretty white in terms of examples, and while the majority of color and light principles can be applied the same to any skin tone, there are still nuances to it that are covered less often/in depth. Here are some videos by Christa Forrest and Sinix relevant to painting black skin tones specifically.

This is a basic summary of my knowledge as it stands right now, I hope it's helpful :')