i am so amazed by your art. it's so beautiful!! your rendering is so smooth, and your anatomy is perfect. the little details?? the lighting?? hellooo, it's so good!! i came from your satosugu fanart, but tbh everything you produce is beautiful. i am so interested in your process. could you show us how your sketches look? or do you jump straight in with painting? incredible work, you're a very underrated and talented artist. here's a cookie 🍪
Hello! Thank you so much for your compliments! I can share some sketches, and I'll try to upload a process video from one of the paintings that I posted here (never uploaded a video on tumblr before 🙈). Some sketches are more detailed than others, it depends on the mood and patience, but I always leave it for the painting process to refine and shape things. I don't really like sketching, haha, so I try to rush it as much as I can.
Lighting is my favourite thing to work with 🥰 I will ALWAYS recommend PortraitStudio app to all artists since it's of great help to me when it comes to light, as well posing and anatomy when I can't find a good ref image. Details are just me unwinding after the big part is over. it's like...decoration at the end. And rendering... I just really take forever with it 🙈
Thank you once again, I opened this profile not so long ago and I'm glad to see people enjoying my art because I am finally enjoying my art after so so many years ❤️
Some friendly gift art for @lanternfishblues of their OC!
Thoughts and extras under the cut!
Mostly experimenting with these brushes by Zac Retz (the oil brushes in particular) with some of Rutkowski's brushes splashed in there.
Slower timelapse here:
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Detail Shots:
Sketches:
Lots of fun experimentation here to get an interesting composition. I was dedicated to keeping the square canvas and began to mess with the sketches to create an interesting effect to work off of.
From that sketch, I started messing with gradient maps and tried to get some fun colors to build on.
I ended up creating this yellow-red-dark blue after a while and began painting from here.
First layer of this Inuyasha painting is done✨ This is still a work in progress, it will probable be complete in about a month. I think after this I will want to try recreating the Fukai Mori ending.
Similar to the minecraft painting, I remembered I already have an Inuyasha song downloaded.🤗
I paint my own book covers for all of my stories! This is (most of) the time lapse for my most recent piece I made for my short story A Testament of Blood (Read It Here) I wrote for spooky season!
I made repaints of the mountains and some of the fur that is now the final book cover! I am hoping have small pocket-sized hardcovers made of this little short story.
This is my first desktop timelapse and I don't know what I'm doing, so it's kinda fugly. I couldn't crop out that black space on the right side, but it'll do. The total elapsed time here is about 5 and a half hours of work, squished here into about 7 minutes.
Anyway, I work in Adobe Photoshop. With these paintings, I don't do an underdrawing, I just jump right in with the paint, using the Lasso tool to create big shapes. Then, I fill in those big lasso shapes with the Paint Bucket. Once the big shapes are established, I grab a textured brush and start filling in the details, and shaping the form of the character with darker and lighter brush strokes that imply form shadow and light. I flip and rotate the canvas a bunch of times throughout my process so that I can make sure everything's nice and balanced.
I use the Lasso tool to also cut and move things like eyes and noses around, when I notice they're not quite in the right place. I also use the Lasso and Move tools to transform (enlarge/shrink/stretch) features until I like the result. On occasion I use the Warp tool to really change the shape of a selection.
On separate layers, I use soft brushes to create cast shadows and more form shadows. I clip them to the character layer beneath them, so that the shadows stay within the boundaries of the character. I play with the opacity of the shadow layers until I like the result, then I create a layer mask and paint out the shapes that I don't want to be in shadow, creating a nice edge between the shadow and the form that it's touching (that's hard to explain in words but it's shown in the video a few times). I do the same thing with light, though sometimes I set the layer to "Screen" if I want some highlights to really pop.
Finally, I use Image > Adjustments>Hue/Saturation or Replace Color to change colors and values if necessary. In this case, Cassie's arm warmers started out red, but I changed them to purple. That was done easily by selecting the red color with the Eyedropper, and opening Replace Color, then just playing with the sliders until I was happy with the result.
And there we have it! And as shown here, Cassie's last name used to be inspired by the band Hawthorne Heights! But after painting her, I really felt that was a better name for a hedgehog or something actually "thorny", rather than an opossum. It's funny how I also didn't realize that black and red wasn't the right color scheme for her until I was almost done with the painting. And so it goes!
Anyone want a timelapse? From my last piece. This one’s not too chaotic (unlike most of my others 😅) and relatively short, so I thought I’d post it. :)
Here's an abridged version of my reel on instagram. I was even fortunate enough to remember I have a minecraft song already downloaded on my computer. Here's the completed painting 😊