Crimson Daggers — Art forum

fuck valentines day

I sketched out this guy's face and liked it so much I decided to make it a painting :D




struggled a lot with coming up with an idea and composition, I like this

I love how he comes across as a dictator! Like, you're scared to join, but maybe more scared not to join! I wonder what it would look like if he was holding out a ball with a grand gesture.

(02-16-2018, 02:44 AM)Tygerson Wrote: [ -> ]I love how he comes across as a dictator! Like, you're scared to join, but maybe more scared not to join!  I wonder what it would look like if he was holding out a ball with a grand gesture.

I tried making him hold a ball but couldn't get the sketch right I'll try again tomorrow too exhausted now

I wanted this to be more of a line art thing but its too hard x.x I can't make it look not stupid. So yea just kinda struggled for a while getting the ball rolling I think I have a clear idea of what I want this to look like now tho. 

I need to do irl stuff now more painting tomorrow

Yep, like that with the ball. :) And he looks like he doesn't even notice the room has emptied...

Today I chose social life over finishing this 

mapcrunch study of some misty cliff on the side of a road because I wanted to try out some crazy brushes

Lighting and colours in painting are really nice and mapcrunch study is cool in terms of experimentation with texture. Keep going :)

Thanks :)



I didn't have time for digital but I'm probably going to sketch out some avatar fan art tomorrow because I maratoned almost all episodes in like 4 days x.x

My classes this semester are all at awkward times so I've slowly been becoming a morning person :D I used to just get up super early but now I do most of my art stuff early in the morning too.
Started my Avatar the last airbender fan art thing. It was a more top down view at first but it look too much like a movie poster type of thing and I decided to put the camera more behind Aang to try and get a more adventure-ish feel. <--- I just read this again and I don't know what this means but it feels right 



colors or more like the tone is messed up, everything has like a green mist over it and I need to fix that. But when I look at this image from my phone it looks much more colorful and not so "misty". 
Aang is placed as just kind of a blob of color so I can get a feel where he should be, he's pose should be more like this 

little too fuzzy

Today I found out my monitor's gamma was turned up crazy high -.-

I'll do some more little things tomorrow, call it done call it done and then try to do the whole social media thing

uni stuff / study / sketch

I like how the colors turned out on the hang glider one.

The balance of rendered focal to loose in the glider painting is waaay better. Keep exploring that! good job. I love it when peeps understand and apply crits so well!

Thanks I'm happy people like that painting! Only think that's bothering me is that I don't fully understand how I made it work I feel like I just got lucky -.- 

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stuff from today



more avatar stuff 


I've got a lot of work to do on this

I got little done today :/

Early in the morning I found out the books I ordered are stuck in customs and so I had too deal with that for way too long and then I couldn't get to my painting class at uni because there's a massive snow storm and I couldn't find a place to park my care and then more bullshit and the some more bla bla bla... bad day, don't like it.

The sketch from yesterday isn't working out the way I want it to, probably because I'm tired from today. I started a new sketch that's (hopefully) much more simple.

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I think some things that worked in the composition were:

-how the clear, simple shape of the glider stood out from a simple background
-off center placement of glider
-feeling of motion from the river and cloud trails
-how the clouds created a loose receding perspective line/triangle shape to frame the glider at the top
-how the value of the glider stood out from both the bright clouds and the darker greenery
-how the warm orange jumped out from the cool green and pastel clouds
-the clean cut simple shapes of the glider contrasted against fluffy clouds and greenery