#practicing coloring/shading

[re-ikrmso]

ahh yippiee!! akechi!! its akechi!! he is so angry and bloodthirsty wow! so much energy!

augh yeah, inconsistent coloring lol, but whatevs. I didn't even bother to take colors from a reference, i just guessed while looking at a picture ^^ yay for creative liberty!!

Akechi's anger/bitterness is something that i find fascinating (and to an extent resonate with.) i may daresay, that i am a causal Akechi fan.

below the line are alternate versions of the picture! hope y'all are more well than me!

(gahhh im proud of this though, it turned out pretty well ^^ so hard to draw..)

Songs listened to while drawing:

Killshot - Magdalena Bay//slowed+reverb+muffled version (some Lyrics in the grey text in picture)

Yu Yu Hakusho - Romantic | Piano // Another version of the song, not a cover

Me for You

14- Death Note / L's Companions(Lの仲間, Eru no Nakama ) by Yoshihisa Yirano & Hideki Taniuchi

[verytiredrn]

they’re thinking about starting a podcast

[domi091]

You looked at his brother weird

[ellisforlava]

Edgeworth after having the most INSANE 3 days in a row

[silversoulsociety]

Hayato Suo✰ウインドブレイカー

[basil-the-bulbasaur]

First piece for @mcyt-soulmate-sweepstakes

Close ups, the picture I took right after completion (different lighting), and the thumbnail/sketch under the cut

[ooliecat]

Can I ask How do you color and render your art? I frickin love the way you choose colors esp for lighting and bounce light, it's really pretty

thanks so much :) this took a little bit because i'm not a teacher. but hope you can understand some concepts i put out.

I'm going to go over mostly on how I shade/render. Picking out initial base colors is something that just comes with practice, preference, and from someone more eloquent.

The top is what 'not' to do. The bottom is generally what i do.

below is another example

i could do more. i meant to do more. but every other tip/tutorial i tried doing seemed like i was teaching abc's. I realized i don't know exactly what was being asked. I do have a few general tips though.

my process usually goes: Sketch, lineart, coloring, filtering/post processing.

'Post processing' can be a lot of things like; Painting over the drawing(fixing errors or adding details), or adding a noise filter, adding an overlaying photo. And/or changing the colors with gradient maps.

If you use a program that supports gradient maps then use them. they can be your best friend. Especially when colors don't look cohesive or just how you want them to.

Experiment with layer modes. At the moment I'm really into Pin-Light and Luminosity. Like I said, experiment. This is included in post-processing.

Use more than one shading color for each section. Go darker, go lighter while using that color picking method. Ex: It's usually darker under the neck than the side of the face. So use a darker color than the face.

if anythings confusing or you'd like something more specific then you're more than welcome to ask.

[jesterofthecourt]

bird counseling

the crow is the counselor btw

[essenceofarda]

First Kiss moment?? I've been experimenting with looser lineart with loose and more saturated, painterly coloring style. Also possibly a spoiler for a Way future chapter of Romance in Rivendell??? 👀😏

[karlyboyyy]

Lord Sesshōmaru

[re-ikrmso]

Ikari!! it's them!! i did some shading practice with them, but i couldn't decide where the light source was and i had no idea what i was doing lel... XD

so here they are! also below, is the original drawing i had (i showed it to a cool artist friend @goredcatto and he was like "you have pillow shading, do cooler shading" and i was like "OKAY" and also songs i listened to! while drawing that i remembered!

Some songs I listened to:

Death Parade Full OST: ゲームA

米津玄師 Kenshi Yonezu - KICKBACK

LOOΠΔ/ODD EYE CIRCLE (이달의 소녀 오드아이써클) - Uncover (Funk Remix)

Alfred Schnittke- Tango (from Agony)/Alfred Schnittke : Agonie - IV. Tango

[It's a bit quiet at first, so you may want to turn it up. It has spectacular dynamics though, so..watch out!]

also, the reason why Ikari's hair is fully grey is cause that's their hair color lol. but i decided to use it as a in between tone for the shading practices up above lol.

[improvapocalyps]

Scar, I am NOT staying in a Christmas card with you——

🥺

Prompt: "Grian and Scar celebrating Christmas", @artby-jessica

Outfits based on their MCC19 (by cloudyylul) and MCC35 (by N1mbus_) skins 🍪

[forsakenprogam]

Do y’all know how to draw muscles? because I can’t😭😭😭

Polo’s muscles aren’t that visible because of his shirt…

I hate myself why did I do the poses by memory😭😭😭 but I did have references for muscles tho.

[koushuwu]

NO ONE CAN OUTRUN GRAVITY

[ms-divi]

I felt like drawing them today

Seeing him even when it's about to rain and a dress is stained makes her feel better.

I rarely draw backgrounds so cherish this while you can. Anyways this is the last time i'm drawing dialogue.

Here more of them. I took some layers off and felt surprised by my art skills.

But yeah...them...

Thanks @littlemissheather for suggesting this

[diddlesnap]

A Saint Bernard sits at the top of the driveway