Ziku, do you have any advice for the color technique? I really like how you apply shadows and lights.
My advice? start with grayscales.
using grayscales helps you distinguish the proper lighting without having to worry about the colors. It's also why I'm able to do the 1-hour pomnis: I could place the colors after I'm done with the lighting placement.
my process is this:
I first start off using airbrush, softly shading areas that don't get hit with light often.
I then proceed to roughly put of where should light hit with a light shade of gray, and how it affects the surrounding area with darker greys. The closer a solid object is to another, the harder the edges of the shadows are. I embrace the imperfection of my strokes, and do not perfect them at this stage since it would be a waste of time.
fun fact: you can make hard edges look more defined by placing a very light shade of gray. This is how I achieve the illusion of lighting hitting something on my art :)
once I'm done with the values, I move to coloring. I keep the strokes as loose as I did the lighting placements, because again. Imperfections HELPS. Glossy things like eyes, teeth and the apple are colored a bit darker, to make the shine pop later.
Apply a multiply layer above the colors between 15-30% depending (for this piece it's set to 26%), it's up to you if you want the multiply layer to be cooler colors, or warmer. I chose a saturated orange coloring for mine.
now this is my favorite part: glow dodge. Set to 100% and above every other layer except lineart, light dap it around using an airbrush where the light hits the most.
This part is mostly optional, since this is where I "clean up" the lineart by locking the layer, then color dropping the edges to "erase" most of the lines.
you don't have to do this, it's just easier for me for the rendering stage since it won't get in the way.
You can also go ahead and combine every layer (grayscales + colors + lineart and etc.) afterwards. This one is important.
all that's left to do now... is to render your painting.
and you render,
and you fucking trust the process even though Pomni looks like a stoned as fuck vampire with a receding hairline,
and you render. (and add more glow dodge for the glossy objects)
When I finish a painting, I actually apply a difference layer above it all to give it some flare,
to which after that I'll do a render noise, chromatic aberration, tone curve and posterization for final touches.
(Would like to add this is a wip and will probably end up redrawing as this is not only my first time animating but also my first time drawing digitally so it’s not not the best lmao)
I have recently became obsessed with Gravity falls again specifically bill cipher and Stanford Pines and every time I try to draw I keep going back to them so here are all my unfinished bill fanart😋🫶
Starting from my first then to my most recent
This was my first attempt at a human design for him I took a lot inspiration from other designs I loved I also wanted to give him a rat kinda vibe cause he’s a rat man imo
Drawing 1) This is my LEAST favourite I was kinda in a art block and completely forgot how to draw so it turned out disgusting didn’t even finish colouring it I was already over it he’s giving dutch van der lin vibes tbh feel like he’s gonna make me hand over all my money only to tell me he needs more money also I decided the way the scars on his face sat in this one
Drawing 2) Don’t really like this one ether it’s wonky and the proportion are all off it’s also the first time I drew Stanford I tried doing bill with long hair but I just wasn’t feeling this drawing so I scraped it
This one I really like it’s simple but whatever this is when I was getting more used to drawing him
This one I scraped as well I was trying to design an outfit but failed I do like the cane and the hat tho I’ll try keep those in his design
This this is where it got good omg I like this design a lot I took inspiration on Egyptian/Arab clothing mostly cause I was running out of ideas but then I saw a design of an Egyptian Bill Cipher cause yknow he’s a pyramid and those are Egypt… yeah anyway I added more triangles to the design just cause
Glimpse of a wip “based on” (aka rips off) this Peter Vincent moment that I’ve been focused on instead of writing more of my au this is a scene from bc my writing brain is MIA and possibly also hates me.
But I’ve been trying to draw a brick wall at a weird angle that has been killing me for days pray for me y’all .
Also I am somewhat horrified by how low res this is and I should wait on posting any of this but also I want attention so badly.