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Odysseas Focas - "The Two Brothers Fighting Embraced on the Narrow Strip of Land", Illustration for Dimitrios Vikelas’s Short Story “The Two Brothers” (1887)

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Nicolas Regnier (1590-1667) - Saint Sebastian.

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Mason Field

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a Caleb study to go with the Essek study i posted a couple days ago!

just like with Essek, i tried to focus on the realism here 👀 it's easier with Caleb because he is a human and photo references are easier to come by for humans, but he is still not a real person i can observe so there is a fair bit of theatre of the mind modeling going on when i draw him 🤭

detail!

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p.s. also i'm aware that i'm posting art right after some exciting things have happened in c3, so just to make it clear: guys PLEASE do not spoil anything in the tags. thank you \o/

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Hauntings Tales of The Supernatural by Henry Mazzeo. Drawings by Edward Gorey

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i could get so much done in a day if i didnt decide my day was over at 4 pm. too bad theres no solution oh well

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omg Happy Birthday Kermie!

Shut up m'dudes, it's a national holiday

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a little study i did to try to depict Essek looking as realistic (within my style) as possible. you can tell i was serious by the fact that i blacked out his clothes so as not to get distracted from the task at hand /j

i encounter a few persistent issues when i draw Essek; it's not only in him not being a real person that i can't look at to then draw accurately as far as his facial features are concerned, but also in the fact that purple people don't exist. i can't study, from pictures or real life, how skin of that color would behave in different lighting, how the blood vessels would appear from underneath it, what shade the sebum would highlight the nose and forehead with, and on and on and on. i can only make an educated guess, and it takes a lot of mental math each time 🤭 so here i tried paying special attention to the realism of it all, to see if i'll learn something! my art is somewhat (semi-)realistic as is, but there still is a fair amount of stylizing going on, and i wanted to have a bit of fun figuring out where it happens. so far noticed that i tend to exaggerate facial features and make them larger than they would probably be on a real person (noses and eyes in particular), and my art could benefit from more different hues when i'm doing skin, especially green.

very excited to try doing Caleb next \o/

detail!

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Had smoked trout on a piece of buttered toast for lunch and I feel like the fanciest motherfucker on the planet

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Nicolas Régnier, Saint Sebastian, c.1620

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