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opened sketchbook and i forgot i drew this i think it's kinda cute?

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i don't really believe in holix but I do believe that they tried and once they have amicably separated (six tries to seal this with a handshake.) they do continue to make it their lives' work to be annoying together. and gossip incessantly in their own way. holiday always insists she does NOT want to know six's weird wk info but then she's hooked every time bc there is something deeply wrong with that guy and she does wanna put him in a breaker and shake him

and six forces her to get a romantic/sex life by greeting her with 'top any women lately' every time she stays up til 3 am doing research

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confused milkman

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thanks so much for drawing white and knix

if it weren't for you i don't think i would have ever paid attention to them and i really like them :)

thank YOU for giving white knight and knix the time of day!!! glad to be here to spread the good word. of milk and knix. their fraught relationship fuels me

here's some post-office knix for viewing pleasure

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I am a bit jealous of the way you paint. Do you have some tutorials or ways to improve? I love paint, I try my best, but my colors end up always muddy 🥲

here's a bunch of miscellaneous thoughts... I hope this helps!!! I've never really written tutorials before so it's a bunch of different tips collected together

whenever you see something that inspires you, save it somewhere! then look at all your inspirations every once in a while and analyze what made you like them - like certain techniques or colour usage or something. then when drawing, try to incorporate it! (i've saved finished pieces, sketches, half-done stuff, speedpaints, lots of different things as inspiration)

using more saturated midtones for shading could help in making things not look muddy (like this tutorial). of course having more desaturated colours could also be a vibe you're going for

don't be afraid to use desaturated or bolder colours!

I love underpainting (tutorial on it)

I also love using the lasso fill tool. I don't do lineart so whenever I need to plop down a big bunch of colour (like for people) it's lasso fill time! on procreate it'd be select -> freehand -> color fill

some people will be like don't overuse blending tools and soft brushes and! while I do think it's super important to learn how to rawdog just blend things, eventually you'll find that reintroducing them into your workflow could be useful! I guess it's more of an advanced tool?

granted I just use hard brushes to blend everything anyways. if you feel like you're overusing blending/soft brushes then try using a harder textured brush, or the good ol round brush with opacity and size being controlled by pressure. or alternate between the two

my painting workflow is changing refined sketch layer to a multiply layer + making it a different colour -> underpainting colour -> lasso fill in shapes (with the underpainting) -> laying colours down at a lower opacity or with a textured brush -> sometimes using a multiply layer for quickly putting in shadows -> some minor painting under the sketch lines -> painting over everything (sometimes I merge a bunch of layers together). here's a video of a wip!

I don't know how to describe this... colour constancy... so, colours look different in different lighting conditions but the brain still recognizes them as the same local colour. one thing I had to really figure out was how to choose colours under different lighting conditions (instead of using a multiply layer for everything)(I still use multiply layers for some things though) bc I found that outright picking them made things more interesting? since style is all about your own choices. like in the above video Paradox's skin is actually a dark grey-purple and his labcoat is dark grey-blue but the brain recognizes that's a white guy with a white labcoat in a different lighting condition. uh. Color and Light by James Gurney has better explanations of this

thumbnailing colours are useful. also don't be afraid to restart your colours over and over if they don't feel right - kinda like a warmup

I like having a brush with minor colour jitter on stroke (like 3%) I can switch to for some colour variation

change your pen's overall sensitivity to be something like this so you don't have to press as hard to get to the ~100% range

get funky and experimental with it! break the rules once you've learned them!

tutorials I liked:

the book Color and Light by James Gurney

importance of values and contrast (pics)

mini rendering tutorials (pics)

underpainting (pics)

colour tips (pdf but the sample tutorials are already helpful)

anatomy quick tips: skin (video)

how i paint skin/light by niro (video)

the fastest way to learn to draw color & light (video)

3 techniques for incredibly realistic portraits (video)

I also find speedpaint videos to be super useful to get a sense of other people's workflow!

brushes I'm using

verkomy's fun marker for sketching + textured painting

moss' sketchy sketch for some sketching

an edit of a default round brush to have a uniformed glaze rendering mode, and variable size (40%), opacity (50%), and flow (max) based on pressure. I think there's other edits too?

default soft brush for quick soft brush needs, like putting down some colours for tinting something with an overlay layer

a square-ish textured brush with 3% stroke color jitter. copied it from a CSP brush that I use (PX paint)

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Oh... I hadn't seen your designs! They're so cool... since one of the Bens has the Biomitrix and a Kevin has the Anitrix maybe give a Rook the Ultimatrix? To cover the bases.

Also, I adore that you use different fashion aesthetics for the characters...! Like, they all look congruent together but distinctly... well, alien from each other

thank you very much! I'm glad they look nice and distinct. one major design tenement of mine is making sure I'm not on either of the two extremes, "this character wouldn't wear this" vs "absolutely nobody on earth would wear this".

I was thinking of giving Rook an Omnitrix but an Ultimatrix would make sense - the TA mentioned in Professor Gwen's bio is actually Rook, so it could slot in there

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would you say that wk and six are roughly the same age or one of them would be older?

I think both are probably around the same age! it would be super funny if Six was like, slightly older though. because it could lead to Six-6 (or Six postcanon when they're more comfortable with each other again) remarking that even though White always said Six was so uptight and old that he'd go grey first, it was actually him who went white-haired first. never live it down

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couldn't finish my anniversary piece for peak on time bc they nerfed me (was sick. again) but here's a sneak peek

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every time i watch this i feel as if i m watching porn

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my puppy

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Every time a man passes me on the street, I’m afraid he’s going to grab me and drag me off to some bathroom to suck my cock. I’ve even started to visualize these repulsive cock-sucking episodes during the healthy, heterosexual marital relations I enjoy with my wife–even some that haven’t actually happened, like the sweaty, post-mission locker-room tryst with Providence Agent Six that I can’t seem to stop thinking about.

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guess who went back to the creek today

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looking at a biiiiiig drop

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average day in six's dms

based on this post

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ms paint ocs as oysters. ocysters

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miscellaneous professor paradox WIPs I haven't posted yet (paradox and the celestialsapiens + paradox binding the alpha rune)

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i cant make plolf a horse in the arcadion bc theres already a horse. i guess dog or wolf. youd think thats obvious but