#loosely based on leyendecker's style

[mulletfriend]

she mal on my medical till i practice

[tenebrare]

Necromancer /2024 edit Original art. Loose study of sorts based on Leyendecker and Liu Yan (Sunsetagain) styles.

[dear-kumari]

Hiiiii! 4, 16, and 21 for the art ask?

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

ngl, I always have some trouble translating an existing character into "my style," whatever that happens to be at the time; I think my toughest battles were with VLD Lotor (so much random crap on his armor … why …) and Anubis from Niehime to Kemono no Ou (I'm sure I could get good at anthro/furry art if I tried, but animal faces just aren't intuitive to me). I've tried to do "realistic" character portraits a few times as well and they rarely turn out quite right. Re: fav subject, I really love unique and complex buildings and interiors, but perspective also isn't very intuitive to me and I tend to give up on them partway through.

pictured: Pain and Suffering (I couldn't bear to put the chibi Lotor there without cropping his horribly proportioned face with the drifting eyes lmao. We've come a long way, I hope)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

I've made some nice-looking traditional media projects based on photographs, but I don't usually enjoy the process. There's definitely creativity and skill involved in translating a photo into a drawing, but to me it tends to feel like tedious copying, especially if I'm working with a grid or a scale tool. Definitely prefer using photos as loose references or drawing from life.

pictured: Pain and Suffering 2: High School Bites. Left is pen on paper and right is black scratchboard, both made in high school art class and both still taped up in my teenhood bedroom. I love vultures so much

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

This is a tough one, since I don't think of myself as having a signature style! I think I'd normally point to some hyper-realistic or highly rendered/ornate illustration styles, since I've never had the patience to tackle that sort of thing, but the recent glut of AI-generated schlock in that family of styles has greatly reduced my appreciation for them. My eyes can't distinguish the real thing from a machine imitation at a glance, so it's unfortunately all been reduced to cheap kitsch in my eyes. Which leaves … well, a lot of styles that I probably do have the patience to tackle, as well as certain styles that I just don't like much. I think I'll fudge the popular definition of "style" a bit and say that some artists have a sense for design and composition very unlike my own — like, it's one thing to imitate J. C. Leyendecker's slick rendering and shape language, but his signature intuitions re: posing and layouts and symmetry don't align with my own instincts. I also love weird, off-putting compositions, even though I don't have the confidence to make truly radical compositional choices for fear that they'll just look like mistakes.

pictured: socks ad by J. C. Leyendecker and The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent (not cropped, it just looks like that)

[dmitris-portfolio]

Title: Grief

Size: 1944px x 2300px (14.7" x 17.4" in)

Medium: Fully digital

This was made for a story I'm working on called "The Final Veil". This particular illustration was made based off a scene where the main characters have a heated argument at their friend's funeral, who died trying to close a portal and keep the world safe.

From top to bottom, the characters are named Smith (he/him), Ford (any), Klaudia (she/her), and Jason (He/they)

The painting style was very loosely inspired by J. C. Leyendecker

For more art of The Final Veil go to Pt. 1 or Pt. 2