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Haven't been posting on here an awful lot, but I'm still around -- just elsewhere. Hope everyone is doing well

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I am a little obsessed with all of hc’s tinkling accessories, especially as they must appear at night. Confession: I hadn’t even read the novel, but the description of hc’s boots tinkling as he walked during the bride arc sold me immediately. I think my goal is to paint that specific sound...

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sketch

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golden.

edit: very tired when I posted this (very draining painting) but wanted to jot down some thoughts since it’s always interesting coming back and reading these. I wanted to capture the feeling of standing under the enormous trees in autumn. Plus the love between hualian captured in the simple care and awareness the two have for each other. I was in a bit of an emotional rut yesterday but painting this scene was incredibly soothing, I wish I could step inside it. Listened to ‘Immanuel’ by Tony Anderson.

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Summary of Art 2020 (favourites from each month), plus the collection of digital master / photo studies done this year. A bunch more in the old sketchbook (mainly Bargue plates) but this isn’t supposed to be exhaustive.

Well, it’s that time of the year again.

Truthfully, I did no drawing at all (aside from doodles in lecture margins) in the first 3 months. But then, quarantine started and suddenly I had the energy and urge to paint again. That lasted until we returned back to in-person classes, and suddenly all the energy for self-expression was used up on talking (instead of painting) so that slowed down and restarted again when the holidays began.

So 2020 in terms of art I’d say is a good year. I started the year with a poor grasp of colour. That’s improved markedly, but now the task is to explore a more varied palette.

For 2021, I think my focus will be on composition. Trying to train the brain to think in a graphical way, and reduce the artwork to a pleasing and interesting arrangement of shapes. Other art-related goals: 1) not get caught up in social media games 2) visit the gallery more often 3) relax, painting is fun, the blank canvas holds infinite possibilities :-)

Thanks for sticking around! Hope 2021 is a brighter year for all.

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needed to get this one out of my system!

so my pet chickens got spooked by a stray cat recently. I love these two silly birds very much.

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some photostudies, trying to figure out how to draw inanimate objects.

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Following in a friend’s footsteps, I recorded the process of this one and made a speedpaint (warning: it is a flip frenzy :P) https://youtu.be/L0M81nhMqfk

XL is such a beautiful soul

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Your Hua Cheng with an umbrella? An absolute stunner and we can't even see his face! But what caught my attention is actually your rendition of blood rain: very simple, yet so astoundingly effective that I can almost hear it drip.

thanks so much for the love, anon <3 aye, sometimes simply letting the mind fill in all the details is the most effective!

I have an unfortunate tendency of overdoing the post-processing, so here’s the original version I painted before the contrast filters.

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this turned out very different to the imagined pic, but still interesting vibes nonetheless. one day will figure out how to draw details without getting hand cramps.

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so I thought I needed to make my signature a bit more elegant for this one // this was really really fun and very indulgent

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The animators have done an incredible job!

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Tbh I don’t get the hype around Alexandre Cabanel’s ‘Fallen Angel’, but of all the hxh characters, I reckon Kurapika’s the best fit. Thank you twitter prompt. Stretching the painting muscles after a long hiatus~

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Well, this is a throwback! Done for a draw-this-again challenge, plus been catching up to the svss donghua & tgcf manhua, which inspired the style.

I think over the years, my idea of ‘improvement’ has changed a lot. It’s less about correct anatomy etc, but more about exploring and figuring out the best way to convey the image & feeling you have in mind. That means having a wide artistic repertoire so that you aren’t limited by technical skill, but it also means that some artworks can’t be ‘improved’ because they are already so successful in conveying what you had in mind.

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Blue Atlantis

Again, just a crazy mashup of things on my mind the past week. Need to sit down and do some studies without getting unduely stressed about not studying/reading etc, time just runs away...

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a flower crown for you.

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Facing my fears and practicing lineart.  ...it’s an exquisite sort of pain but I can’t keep avoiding it ahh