#btw this is my first time trying to digitally color one of my traditional sketches

[howlinghound11]

It's the boy!!!

He's just so funny to me, i love him <3 the silly little guy who's taken over everybody's heart @:)

Character belongs to the wonderful @/partycoffin ofc

[freebooter4ever]

Hi there!

I’m new to digital painting so I still have to figure all of that out. :)

(side note: this is my first time ever not asking as anon.. And I was the anon asking about different options for devices in digital art a while back)

Anyways..

I noticed some kind of glowing effect (?) in your sketches and I was wondering how you achieve this.

If you don’t know what i am talking about, here is a screenshot. I “circled” the spots I‘m referring to. :)

Do you just use a lighter value and lower the opacity? Or is this a whole different tool you can use - like a special “pencil”/pen?

Whatever it is, I love the look of it and I’m very curious about how to achieve it. :)

Thank you in advance! btw: I love your blog and your style of drawing!!

Hiiii anon who is no longer anon :) nice to meet you, im Boots! this is actually a super easy answer if you have photoshop - just create a layer with a "light" color (i use a warm pale orange yellow usually, but sometimes I go for bright blue, or bright yellow, or pale green, or pink, really whatever mood I'm trying to get), paint the areas you want to "lighten" and then change the layer opacity mode from "Normal" to "overlay" and poof! Light magic! I'm pretty sure actual digital illustrators would see this and recognize it as the lazy method of doing it lol whoops.

I dont really "paint" digitally though, I totally lack the patience for painting in the traditional sense - I do have a few examples up here, mostly in my extensive steve aoki tag though I think I did one of snafu at some point too. Anyway, being a 3D artist my brain is able to make sense of light in a 3D layered way - I create different layers with different "light sources" and then underneath that I create my "shadows", and i use the colors of the lights and shadows to try and unify the colors of the whole drawing bc i dont know a thing about color theory. Lately I've been trying to jump from that and start incorporating light falloff and color bounce into my process haha.

I hope this helps! :D I struggled with digital stuff too, until I stopped trying to fight it and started following my own nose with what came easier to me - hence the breakdown of lights/shadows overlaid on the drawing instead of just painting color. Thank you for liking my doodles and being curious about them!! It's very flattering ^_^ im posting this before work starts but after work I will share a breakdown of the baby wally doodle with the lines/base color/lights/shadows!

[summoner-chan]

It's always kind of hard to identify what makes one's style different huh, but if I had to say what I most like about yours is the way you draw your complex lines without losing any readability, its most clear when you draw long flowing hair and in your OC's arm as well!

I totally get what you mean with coloring digitally, coloring is one of the main reasons I haven't done traditional art in a looong while.

From your Question Game: Sitri, Aizen

I think those haven't been asked yet?

I mean, I DO have a tendency to do complex things and make my life harder by making those lines for the hair 😂😂 but it makes me satisfied looking at them in the end so it'd a give and take situation

No doubt, what said made me realize it's one of the prominent features I have in every artwork skskksksks

Okay but for real, I was SO confused on what you mean by my OC's arm and thinking SO SO HARD on what was so complex on my Summoner's arm until then. I realized. You were referring Darius 😂😂

Maybe my art style is overcomplicating lines or just over detailed line works skksksksk (also please excuse the cake she has in that one picture- I swear the main focus was her tattoos and the dragon which was cropped off and not her asscheeks 😂-)

I rarely do coloured traditional artwork because they end up looking not as good as the sketch so it pains me hhhh (´;︵;`) but yeah, I really like sketching in traditional because it feels much more natural(? I have no idea but this is what I feel, like nyoom nyoom my hand go brrr- oh no I smudged a line FUCK- that sort of thing 😂)

Also time for the Housamo Ask Game!~✨✨

Note, this is going to get pretty lengthy so I apologize for that (｡•́︿•̀｡)

[Sitri]

Someone who I look up to when I was younger? Hmmmmm, hard to say because I admired a LOT of people when I was younger, even if it was the most simplest of things. For example, someone being able to cook a certain dish, someone who can tackle on multiple tasks and etc etc. 😂 I was a kid that get excited at almost everything so I tend to try to do what everyone does. You're cooking? Well, I'm gonna cook too!! (A 6 year old little girl who couldn't even reached the sink yet-)

Fun fact, I started drawing because my second sister watched anime and started to draw so me being the a mazed little sister I am, I quickly followed in her footsteps. Usually siblings would bond over that kind of thing but unfortunately not for me and my sister 😂

She absolutely hated my guts that time and she hated me even more once I started to follow what she was doing. Basically calling me a impersonator/copy cat and she would throw a fit if I was drawing anywhere near her when she was drawing.

Though along the way, she eventually stopped drawing when she had reached high school while young me continued to draw anyway. At first, the reason why I wanted to draw was because that I wanted to get praises from my sisters since during my childhood, they would shoo me off and they would play only between themselves, making me having to play with my mom most of the time or just plain watch the tv the entire day.

I was constantly drawing something everyday and every moment I had the chance, simply because I wanted to get better so that my second sis would acknowledge me. This lead up to being the hobby of drawing ingrained into me, the simply hobby now fully a part of me and my childhood.

I vividly remembered where during in primary school, we were having an art test where we would have to draw a flamingo and of course since I was the quiet art kid in class, some of the popular young girls begged me to draw the flamingos for them which I then profusely refused since cheating was a bad thing. Though I'd wish that young me wouldn't have been so easily scared by the threat of them not being friends with me anymore ( ；∀；)

In the end, I ended up drawing for half of the class in secret and got scolded by the teacher for drawing for them (she said something along the lines of 'You can't help other people! They should do their own!' like Miss, why are you getting angry at me :( I was 6 + this wasn't the first time the popular girls cheated, it also happened during English test and they kept bothering me about the answers, same threat btw)

Now that I'm older, I don't have anyone specific that I look up to but I look up to anyone in general. Like, I'd admire someone who takes up their courage to do things they were scared of doing or someone who's confident in their abilities when they're usually so shy like yeah!! I admire you so much!!! It maybe insignificant but to me it might have been the most extraordinary thing!

[Aizen]

What ticks me off but not for others? Hard question 😂

I don't get mad easily but when I do, it's just a short while before I go back to normal, the only thing you're going to witness me being angry is just not talking to you for a certain amount of time, completely avoiding you and staying in another different room 😂 then once I cool off, I'm back to being to a annoying rat skskksskks

Though, if I were to really answer this properly, I think what ticks me off the most when someone just cuts me off while I'm talking and tells me that I'm being too loud. I know that this thing would probably tick anyone off if they can't help controlling their voice volume-

I can make my voice really loud when I want it to be without even straining my throat 😂 One time, I was calling out to my fellow art members who was across the field which in turn I had to make my voice a bit louder.

This caused one of the passing group students (they're somewhat troublemakers sksksks) following suite of trying to call them (they were mocking me) and this whole shouting thing made one of the disciplinary teachers come out of her office and yelled at the group of students, telling them they were being too loud and they were causing a ruckus (ngl I was scared shitless but like internal happy dance because I didn't get scolded by her 😂 Still feel bit bad tho for them)

Eventually, the fellow art members saw and heard us from a distance and came right over, promptly saying that my voice could be hear across the field (they can also hear my voice from the 2nd floor too)

Thank you for sending an ask in!! Another thing is that, so sorry for talking too much- I tend to get carried away with these kinds of things since I'm too much of a chatterbox and open person myself-

Feel free to send in more by the way! (人*´∀｀)｡*ﾟ+