hey hiii love your art and i am astonished by your background composition, is there a process behind that or maybe tips you would share ?
hi!! thank you! this kind of like depends per piece, im not a professional artist (compsci student, so take my advice as a student with no formal art studies with enough salt to taste) but i do have a kind of general-ish process that i can talk about like with this scara piece comp:
i work pose first, composition second: i.e. i draw a pose and usually refine it before i start thinking about a background lol 😭
working general -> specific is my best friend, and I think it also helps me evolve a drawing as i go, since i don't usually have an idea for a full composition when i start (that's so stressful to me LMAO) you can see this progress here (i erased the basic guidelines though so theres no facial features, but i usually leave the face for last anyway because it helps me fit in an expression better)
by the time i have a full pose THEN ill start refining to an actual composition. this is also the point at which i decide to start putting actual effort in
then i just. fill the background with objects, usually ones that have a connection to the character or vibe im trying to fit. this is a weird example because the only things i know about scaramouche is there's some sort of like connection with puppets and he also likes his vision so i played with that idea, which is kind of where those fishes and the general pose came from. (i go into more detail about this here!)
i originally wanted to have puppet strings for those objects as you can see below but it made the final piece kind of muddy so i took them out :(
then its just coloring, which is usually what takes me the longest because im so. indecisive 😭 i like to keep depth and 3d space as the like #1 thing in my mind while coloring though and how shadows will work with that, because i think it helps a piece pop out way more
and that's how i get my compositions !! i make it seem pretty streamlined here please know it's a lot of redoing whole parts of the drawing and fixing the background/foreground until im happy with the finished result
thank you for asking, i hope this helped answer the question <3
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Omg, some older Lilith fan art! If I ever feel up to it I may go back and add the fancy borders. I originally had planned to, but I was kinda done with the piece by the time I finished all the Liliths (+ Hooty).
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best pro about size difference is tippy toeing when kissing
full pic @ patreon / gumroad / commission / homepage
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Commission for @kyukicho. <3
Thank you for the request! I had amazing time doing this.
(Commissions are closed at the moment, I'm working on orders. For more info, please see pinned post!)
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