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bg practice w/ some classic friends🌻(print available here)

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hey!! go look at this!! i got to paint a poster for Christoper's amazing indie animation project -- go check it out & sign up to the supporter survey to get a chance to grab one >:) ❤️🎃

Indie Animation Day is tomorrow?? HERE!! Have some free stuff! 🌟💖

Complete the Google Form below for a chance to win a free poster made by the iconic @spacecolonie and the amazing DredgeTh! 👇🏿🎃🌈

https://forms.gle/zJTfz2zqFSk3Vxwe8

Special thanks to editor Bri Gallagher and voice-actress Sheila M. Lin for all their help putting this video together!

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i saw you in a dream

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There's one charity that I haven't seen shared here personally, and that's Care for Gaza.

They're shared a lot on twitter as a reputable on-the-ground relief source. You can donate to their gofundme to help their efforts here.

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do you have a comms page?

i do yes, my commission info & TOS are here ♥

i'm currently closed, but i'll post when I open them back up!

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experiments + fake cover version 💉

(print)

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close in the distance (sonic x ffxiv warmup)

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new years doodle!! happy 2024 ♥

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shadow in his fancy winter coat 🦔

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nicole comm for anon 💜

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i promise you, revenge (happy halloween 🎃 )

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2 days...

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hyper knux commission

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I HAVE ONE OF THOSE KEY CHAINS TOO!!!

The others all looked weird and just... Not right, so I bought a Metal Sonic.

Even Tails and Knuckles seemed abnormal.

And there were no girls like Amy or Cream for some reason.

NICE!!! 🤝 Someone on twitter showed me the metal one they have & honestly I had no idea there's a whole collection of them, they're kinda super cute even if they are busted LOL

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my mum got me a charming little bootleg today. she dubbed him 'shadow who is sick', or alternatively, 'derek'

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commission 💎💛

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i adore your paintings so muchhh would you happen to have any other tips or tutorials for your process? anything from thumbnailing all the way to final render

Thank you 😭♥ I appreciate that a lot!! To start with I've got my advice tag (both new and veeery old stuff lol), & my youtube has a couple of speedpaints on it, one with commentary including process, brushes etc

In terms of general stuff about how I approach painting, I tend to tailor the method to the desired outcome. I talk about it more in depth on this post here, I also link to some references & tutorials that I really enjoy/recommend!

Besides that though, I guess I can do a little walkthrough of the Whisper & Tangle painting I uploaded a few months ago, since I tried something new with it that I pseudo integrated into my workflow & could be fun to talk about? 🤔

SO yes, I do always thumbnail when I'm doing a bigger painting, and they're definitely not pretty LOL. I usually use the colour fill lasso just to block in basic shapes and values with a gradient map slapped on the top -- I ended up swapping the values around in the end because it let me use the fireflies as the sole light source, making it more character focused! Then it's the usual process of resketching it all & flatting in the base colours (I also added Whisper's wisps hehe), then adding shading:

This is how I usually approach it, w/ all the shading layers clipped to the original flats to preserve editing. Multiply, screen & overlay are the most common layer modes I use while doing this, and if I'm ever struggling I'll sometimes add a gradient map too in order to unify awkward colours etc. The new thing I tried for this painting was doing what's often nicknamed as a 'clown pass' -- which is using hard edged shapes to create an easily-accessible selection mask for each part:

It looks Super funny but I actually found it very helpful, and I ended up using it to select & cut out all of their body parts onto seperate layers, which were then alpha locked. It meant I could go ham w/ large or textured brushes, smudges etc without worrying about losing those edges, or accidentally over-rendering and screwing up the anatomy in the process!!

I've kept doing something similar since, though it's a bit more dialed back; mainly using the lasso select to chop it up directly and preserve specific/necessary edges, grouping up similar body parts on a single layer etc.

After doing all that, I sat down and started rendering. The background was all blocked in & detailed with a hard round brush and these amazing brushes from Devin Elle Kurtz. There isn't anything super insightful that I think I could type on how I render, but I do have that speedpaint I mentioned earlier that'll probably shed more light. It's just a lot of eyedropping & painting, rinse and repeat

When rendering is done I usually add a concoction of adjustment layers, as well as an overlay w/ a noise texture on it. I also sharpen it all after doing so! These are the ones that I ended up adding for this painting:

The dupe & blur is a fun thing that doesn't always work, but it looks super neat when the painting itself calls for it, especially when paired w/ that noise texture. It can make stuff look like an old/low quality photograph or recording -- here's another example w/ a shadow and amy doodle I posted a few months ago:

That's about it for this painting, the majority of the time spent on it was honestly me rendering those damn leaves 🥲 Very tedious but worth it & it was a really good learning experience. I'm not sure if any of this will prove useful but thank you so much for sending in the ask, & if you (or anyone else reading this) wants a similar breakdown for a different painting of mine, please do let me know and I'll try my best to do one!! 🥺💞