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Our secret moments... in a crowded room...

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Based on an old sketch about a very silly Discord discussion with @storyknitter, that started with her joking about Theron being an undercover electrician planting spy devices in someone's home, and then somehow literal plants got involved.

(aka -- I just wanted to try out a new lineart techinque, but didn't want to bother sketching anything new so I just resurrected this. Art talk under the cut)

I finished watching an open tab I had forgotten about for several months on some quick and dirty line art tips in which you use the border effect inside of Clip Studio to quickly block out shapes and create line art. Wanting to try it out on something, and not in the mood to sketch, I went and found this extremely silly sketch I did on Discord a few months back. Like this sketch, I didn't spend really want to spend too much time in making things super pretty, just wanted to see how quickly I could finish.

Conclusion: I like it! Need to mess around with the anti-aliasing settings a bit more so that when removing the white color and converting the lines to vector (mostly because i wanted some latitude to adjust the line width) it doesn't get quite so crunchy and jagged. Something you can see along the lines around the "flower". If you're using Clip Studio Paint and want a new line art method, worth giving it an experiment.

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Attempted to do a quicker painting/redraw of an older piece of art.

2022 vs 2018

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Rixen

For @stephyhimemademe

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Jiune

For @elveny

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Phae

Cool as a cucumber. For @nayci ♥︎

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One Week Portrait (Spring 2022) - Day 5/Final

And we arrive at the final iteration for this round of One Week Portrait. I’m very happy with how this one came out, and had a lot of fun experimenting with a few different techniques (and I only crashed Clip Studio like, all of once with my five million layers).

And (under the cut) just for comparison’s sake, the progression of this year’s pieces, as well as previous entries:

2022

Year over Year Comparison

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One Week Portrait (Spring 2022) - Day 4

The last two days are almost always my favorite for this challenge, because it’s where everything comes together. I had a lot of fun with this one, bringing all of the detailing back, and for the most part, have been three default tools within Clip Studio for everything, including the hair: soft airbrush, opaque watercolor, and the blender tool, and I really like the painterly look that’s emerging from that.

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One Week Portrait (Spring 2022) - Day 3

Day 3 is where I always hate everything, because rendering is a bitch and will never not be one. I’m also cheating a little and straying off the path, as I’m using some of Marc Brunet’s techniques for the coloring phase here, which is why the colors have suddenly shifted so wildly. It’ll all come back once I do another highlight pass.

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One Week Portrait (Spring 2022) - Day 2

Clip Studio Paint makes laying in flats so easy and quick, I love it. Also I have to say, laying in the shadows and highlight shapes went a lot faster this time around. While I was still using the reference to double-check, I was mostly laying it down without having to rely on the references I generated. I’ll count that as a win for progress.

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One Week Portrait (Spring 2022) - Day 1

It’s that time again! Paintable is running it’s One Week Portrait Challenge again, and after failing rather spectacularly last round, which was quite humbling, I have hopefully picked a better reference this time around. I guess we’ll see at the end of the week how this turns out.

Previous One Week Portraits: Summer 2018 | Summer 2019 | Fall 2019 | Spring 2020 | Fall 2020 | Fall 2021

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Xaja

An itty bitty Sentinel for @keldae 😘

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Vassanna

An angsty lil’ 🥑 for the Angstmaster herself, @storyknitter

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Peytzia

A portrait of the sweetest cinammon roll Togruta of them all, for @confettininjabean ♥

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Jasati

Definitely smirking, maybe scheming just a little bit. For @rinskiroo

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Lyra Dorn Jedi Sentinel, and frequent Sabacc co-conspirator. For @grumpyhedgehog

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I decided I needed to practice some more portraits and expressions, so I borrowed some of my friends’ babies as subjects. Decided I would give each of these the whole paintover process, but that’s taking a little longer than expected, but here’s the full set in all their glory.

Row 1: @storyknitter, @grumpyhedgehog, @confettininjabean Row 2: @andveryginger, @elveny, @rinskiroo Row 3: @keldae, @stephyhimemademe, @thewriterandmuse