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Baroness Vanitas, Lady of Decay and False Delights, enchanté.   Sup, my entry for @characterdesignreferences monthly contest!  Theme is “Baroque Aristocracy”, so I went with more vanitas-like style. You can see it HERE

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I’ve installed new plugin for AE and wanted to try it, and luckily for me, my friend made awesome vector Wolverine. So it was only matter of seconds for a decision and I’ve started animating. So far, my experience with DUIK plugin is mostly positive, it is very flexible tool and I had no problems with it.

And above is the result. And visit my instagram!

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I’ve got a pen, I’ve got an apple

I was supposed to blend gray planes into one shiny apple using only brush strokes. It went kinda okay, I guess? Tutorial HERE (you are provided with blocky apple and finished example. this one above is mine)

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brush control part 2

28.05.2018

Two more and I have to say I already think differently about brush strokes. I was applying some techniques from those assigments to my daily work today. And I'm pretty glad how it comes out. Ready for next tutorials!

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brush control

27.08.2018

I think messy brushstrokes are one of my major problems with digital painting, so yeah, thank you Creator of CtrlPaint for this assignment.

Part one with grayscale done, colors will come tommorrow. And once again, those brush tools are amazing. I love how they blend.

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101

26.05.2018 OHKAY! I want this blog to be my journal, so let it be a journal. (aka expect a lot of trash here). Like I've said, I went to ctrlPaint.com Free Video Library and watched and done some basic tutorials. I've asked myself, okay, I know how to paint in photoshop, I've spent solid five years doing so, do I really need to watch basics about interface and workflow? Well, lady, yes, you have! I didn't expected that, but I've learned few things that will come in handy. And most important, I've downloaded tools presets. I usually use only custom brushes, I like them and think they are very useful, but I can see now that tools have some advantages! For example, you can save color setting for your brush/tool. That's handy! And I really like how Matt's tools behave. They blend really nicely, even when they are just very simple hard or soft round brushes.

So I was just doodling around, having little paradigm shift in my world view, when I discovered how easily I can blend colors now. Ofcourse, I still don't have any idea how color works. That will need some practice. Like this:

Blending it by hand nice and smoothly.

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butthurt.. or beginning.

I’ve started my little journal on blogspot, but blogspot is terrbile and I hate how it manages text and pictures in one post, so I’ll copy it here. And I’ll be posting here from now on. Yup. That’s my plan. So! Ready steady? 26.05.2018 I'm Magda. And I'm an artist. Well, I used to be, I guess? I used to really work with my skill and I've loved it, but recently I've got lazy. Like super lazy. Like what-am-i-doing-with-my-life kind of lazy. And I'm truly tired of it. So I want to make a commitment and start filling this blog with notes from my journey to accomplish what I call not being lazy. A dare quest, you may say. But I will try. I will probably go back to being lazy tommorrow, but the day after tommorrow I'll try to not being lazy again! And the story will repeat itself countless times, but I'll be happy, because I tried. What do I want to do exactly? 1) Digital painting. Excell in composition, perspective, and start using colors, goddamnit. So volume, shapes, tones, lightning, everething painting-related. Anatomy as well. 2) Lowpoly modelling. I really, really, really want to make cute little lowpoly objects in blender. Make cute UVs and textures for them. And then put them in cute little lowpoly games. Which leads us to... 3) Unity. That's my goal number 3 and very important one. I want to be super efficient with working in unity enviroment, because it's awesome and gives you amazing possibilities to create, not only games, but also apps and movies and animations as well! And particle systems is something which gives me chills when I watch on youtube what some dudes can perform with it.

Like this one above. My heart is pounding when I'm watching it. B-B-B-B-EAU-TI-FUL.

4) Animations. I want them badly. Well, I work as an animator, so I can't suck at them :D I want 2D, hand drawn, motion design, I want 3D pixar-style anims. I'll do my best. Okay. With all that being said, I can finally start with improving myself. So, lads, first let's have a little art-dump here. My recent unfinished digital paintings that crave to be done.

They are waiting for better times. But guess what?! They'll wait even longer. Because I feel like I don't have skill to finish them. I'm stuck. I'm lost like a child in a fog. That's why I'll do some tutorials from ctrlPaint.com and when I'll be more comfortable, I finish.

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Some of my latest daily commute sketches. It’s pretty hard to hold pen in desired position, because our trams and buses are wiggly as hell.

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EIZO Inspired by Japan contest entry SUSHI SHOP, 2018

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angry apple

quick speedpaint exercise, sketch without any reference and limited color pallete (used this one http://www.color-hex.com/color-palette/33354) 

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Inktober day 31: MASK

Holly molly! I’m super proud of myself! I’ve been able to finish whole Inktober in time. Can’t believe. Such wow. Much work. Also, I’m thinking about making prints out of my inks. Tell me if you are interested!

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#Inktober day 29: UNITED

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Inktober day 27: CLIMB and 28: FALL

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Inktober day 25: SHIP

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Inktober day 23: JUICY

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Inktober day 22: TRAIL