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I don't know what that is, but I feel vaguely uneasy looking at it, like I've been caught looking at some sort of alien porn. I tried to do some kitty expressions real quick. Kitties!  
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Neat! I thought you'd lay down big areas first, then go for the detail. It's cool to see how you just pop every area down as it's gonna be. This has a very "trainspotting" vibe to it. Phylodox posted:Continuing my World of Warcraft series. Dwarves dwarves dwarves I vote for dwarves do it do it.
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Feb 4, 2015 23:26
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the_lion posted:Dead is an expression, right? Right. The expressions on the ghosts count! No wait.. ghosts are dead, too. Oh well. I've seen people actually shove their tongue out while concentrating. Awww lookit the widdle dude there, all yeaah I'm bustin' outta here Phylodox posted:
gently caress YEA DORF!  I've been experimenting with borders lately. 
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Feb 6, 2015 00:58
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Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this isn't great but dayumn dude your linework on the dorf sketch is loving beautiful, why you gotta be all covering it up? I mean, I get wanting to go for realistic, but considering the warcraft designs are cartoony to begin with, it's a shame not to flaunt those lines. (I may be a bit biased towards linework since I never did realism well)
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Feb 6, 2015 21:58
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Caveman Cat posted:A section of a much larger piece. I love her dainty little hands and the way your lines flow. Like the motion in those background trees is great. I'm so happy you started with this one! I really like the smoke effects. Textures are so difficult when working with digital pieces. Well, difficult for me at least. It's so different from traditional art where you you can change the nature of the materials you're working with to change the textures of the piece. With big pieces like that it's hard to cover-up the repetition that different texture brushes bring. Is this a thing others struggle with, or should I get a better art program?
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Feb 7, 2015 13:13
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I use artweaver, came free with my tablet. Now that I actually bothered to look, I do have more options with the brushes since the last update. Trying to be too accurate has always been a bit of a pitfall for me. I was actually more frustrated with the inaccuracy and lack of feeling of control with using a tablet, when I was so used to controlling a small brush. You're right though, focusing too hard on detail will leave the picture flat. I love how the dude is huuuge so his sword looks like a small stabby thing. I've been inspired now by the world of warcraft stuff (it's been ages since I drew orcs, even!) and the CYOA going on here so I wanted to do a goblin.  I like drawing pissed off faces.
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Feb 9, 2015 01:43
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felat posted:I don't think this guy is cut off for a life of dungeon exploring. The instant I saw this I heard a high-pitched squeak/scream in my head. Oh god please tell me he's telling that to his other head. This has everything a valentine's card should have: pink, a flower and a bad pun. Perfect. Like a sweet little marshmallow for the eyes Amanita mushrooms are the prettiest mushrooms and I love seeing them.I love this cheery little dude! You captured the essence of "yayyyy". Whenever I'm feeling down, I try to draw the derpiest creatures to cheer myself up. That, or dicks. Thanks for not drawing derpy dicks. I wanted to do a really primal sort of orc showing fear-agression. Made the lines rougher than usual, tossed the colour on and WALLA!  Could've still gone coarser, I think.
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Feb 12, 2015 01:07
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Propitious Jerk posted:Your style reminds me a lot of Guy Davis' work; I think it's the bold black lines and tight facial features. If you work more bold shadows into your figures I think it would really improve them. To my shame, I had to google Guy Davis, then felt suitably flattered to be compared to that. And you know what? You're right. I've been too light with my shadows, especially for dramatic pictures, when trying to leave room for colour. Yeaaahhhhh more black, embrace the dark side, Luke.  Man, I still gotta work on this though. It shows very well in the goblin pic that I became "blind" to the work while doing it. Those outlines looked mega dark, I could see so many different shades in the green and the flesh colour while I was painting it, that lipstick was an eye-searing neon colour, those pants nearly black. In the end though, it's so obviously flat. The shades that I was worried would be too dark turned out hardly midtone. That's what you get for staring at a screen for hours on end in a dark room.
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Feb 13, 2015 16:50
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Just let me be the first to say ew ew ew ew EW damnit.
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Feb 14, 2015 22:51
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This is unacceptable, where is my adorable little dino-dude!  Propitious Jerk posted:edit: drat you work fast. Do you spend a lot of time on the finishing touch-ups? I'm gonna be stuck on orcs forever now. Just a fast one, I usually love using hours to perfect details so it's nice to let go of that every now and then. 
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Feb 19, 2015 22:52
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snucks posted:
I once did several pictures with nothing but dark green nail polish, 'cause that was all I could get my hands on at the time. Are you stuck somewhere with only a book on different animals to keep you company? I ask because that seems like the only way one would end up drawing something like weevils and double-banded coursers. And I love the pissed-off monkey in the background. SirJohanna posted:
I love the colour scheme and the flowerbutt on the deer, but the left antlers are blending with the silver birch on the background. I'd maybe add juuuuust a little bit more warm tone to the tree, or add a darker shade to the "bottom line" of the antlers, or rethink the antler colour/texture. I'm gonna disagree with Propitious on adding trees, I think there's plenty there for a sparse nordic scenery, especially if you're gonna bring in more deer as points of interest.
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Feb 20, 2015 22:41
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Troposphere posted:
Oh god this is freaking perfect, dat underbite  I think your style really works well for fur.This is not art, it's therapy: I've got this coworker. This is her face all day, every day.  Who else has this coworker?
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Feb 21, 2015 00:41
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Propitious Jerk posted:I wanted to play around with foreshortening on a character where I didn't have to worry to much about nailing proportions. Final will be carrying a lit torch and he'll have some bombs on his belt with the fuses lit. Hah! The goblin/orc army will take over ALL arts! (Phylodox, where's the rest warcraft stuff? I need to see it!) Curiously, I was just doing the foreshortening thing myself:  I wanted to try doing a backlit piece, 'cause I've never tried to do one before. That's a facefull of confusion spell you're looking at. 1. It looks like the swirly clouds are hugging him and he's all "no I'm huge and cool and no"  2. You go any bolder, you gonna blind someone (seriously, the colours are nice and rich here) 3. Doesn't matter if it's a) magic or b) looks good
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Feb 22, 2015 15:13
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Seconding lady forsaken. Dead chicks rule.
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Feb 22, 2015 20:22
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Guys guys guys. I discovered the TRUTH. About EVERYTHING!
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Feb 24, 2015 00:35
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petrol blue posted:Well I hope you brought enough acid for everyone, mr. Xenu. Of course I did, sharing is caring! See above, Scathatch already got theirs.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:45
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Surprise! I tend to not share any cake. I've been meaning to take a separate pic for sketch/first colour/shade&highlight/finish for the past three pics now. I get mega into what I'm doing though, and always forget. I can't bake when I draw because "do I smell burning? there's no way it's been half an hour already.. oh. It has."
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Feb 25, 2015 22:46
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I could stare at this all day. It's so.. cozy, somehow. You better be sharing  You've got no idea how difficult it is to do any outstretched hands. Every time the I gotta stop myself or everyone would be flipping everyone else. So hey, I managed to get the process in bits! I wanted to do another wizard on a galaxy background eyesearing piece with extra sparkles. I had a lovely photo that I took that I was using as a reference. I kept the photo open side-by-side with the pic the whole time so I wouldn't deviate too much. As you can see, I mainly got the general shapes down and I was planning on doing a kitty in the magic effect. I planned on bringing out the skull shape with skull facepaint for a wicked necromancer!  I do the ink in its own layer, and I keep checking the reference pic for the bits that I was too vague with when sketching. You can see here I was planning on an evil black beard.  Laid down the base colours and a rough outline of what I want the nebula in the background to look like. I thought the wizard looked too young, so I added some wrinkles and go with white for the beard. I decide against necromancers, noticing that I kept the features too soft to pull it off. I should've gone for way more angles in the features if I had been really dedicated to that idea.  Shades and highlights. I spent way too much time on the background, adding transparent bright colours, going over them with transparent black, then new layer of colours, then more black, moving down in brush size step by step. I had googled some nebula pics for colour reference. I desperately try to make the rough 2-tone linework sit nicely with the lovely smooth, round background with all its colour shifts.  Then I don't feel like kitties, I feel like puppies instead, so puppies it is. Also, sparkles EVERYWHERE! As an afterthought I slap on a half-assed border, picking a dark blue from the picture and paintbucketing it on half opacity.  You're a wizard now.
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Propitious Jerk posted:For FX stuff like the pup coming out of the wizard's spell, it's generally good practice to stay away from heavy dark colours and sharp lines. If you revisit the piece I'd do the puppy outline in a fairly wide soft airbrush of the colour of your choice (brighter than the background) and then go over the outline again with a small soft airbrush of white or the brightest value of the colour you used as a base. Man, I know.  That's exactly what I usually do with magic effects. I actually started doing that and then scrapped the layer. I felt it left the area too mushy, and I wanted to add something line-drawn there to tie the wizard in better. Then it didn't look any good because a freaking nebula with both very dark and light spots in varying intensity does not make a good background for intricate linework, so I added dark outlines to bring it out. Then I went "pffpfpfpfpf maybe next time I'll think this through better".I envy your ability to use bright colours so effectively on pictures that are otherwise basically greyscale, and I super love the cyberpunk rave feel.
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