Leo Ki's skbk

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@Rotohail:

Glad I handpicked comics that you will want to read. Not sure if the mask is ripoff or homage, anyway please read it from the beginning to not spoil yourself ;) Tapas.io will always show the last chapter first :(

The Osara ecosystems are very diverse and I have some written descriptions of some organisms and systems but the illustrations I made don't match their peculiarities unfortunately. The most puzzling organism though is the ground itself, and the air is alive too, the suns too (there are no solar systems as you can guess). I can't find any reference to The 100th, do you mean The 100, the TV show?

I did consider at some point making the dryad a bit less human, like the triton, but one thing held me back: I wanted to play with the mythology cliche of the beauty nymphs, only this nymph is nothing like them, she eats snakes alive and fights wolfs barehanded, and can be very bad tempered. Making her human looking enforced the play. However, I made a joking attempt below. By the way the 'fire pit' is actually a badly botched glow-in-the-dark termite hill.

Man, you arm pain must have been such a terrible time, I do hope you take better care now and hold your pen like a feather. Yes, progress is a funny thing, and my eye is always more advanced than my hand so I never like what I do... except when I tell a story and I consider the story redeems the art.

The photo study actually calls for geometry and anatomy breakdown, you're right. What I attempted instead is looking at the patches of values without making any lines, as a vague memory of my speed painting period. I wasn't good at speed painting.

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment so in depth!

Ha, it's probably the later, I was joking! Maybe.. hee. 
Oh it has 21!? I had not noticed, alright, gonna go from the first one.

Yup! That show, sorry my bad I should had given you better directions.
Well you don't have to make her a monster or not-human / not-relatable. But she should be unique and identifiable beyond just green color I feel. And again, you should brainstorm in what way early because it can inform later on how she would act, or others would towards her, and their reactions or interactions.
Ha! Well actually that last one was spooky but also kind of funny! Reminds me a bit of ghibli stuff, but it's a fine line... ha. (also has that Scream mask vibe to it, spooky!).

Well it was more annoying than troubling most of the time, but yeah I had two days where it was like on fire back in 2013-2014, I can't remember exactly the year but I was scared. Luckily since picking back bike riding I'm good! Must be all the vibrations lol. I think I get what you mean about your eye being further ahead than your hand, I had that same feeling at times, I think it goes with the territory. They will eventually pick up.
Hmm, I don't think I ever paid much attention to speed painting, I would say take your time, maybe track time to not slack off much or get stuck (that's what I do) but if you have to stop and think what strokes you want the best (I keep telling myself this but sometimes I don't have the patience and then things go way wrong, that's when I force myself to stop), thinking ahead I feel will make you do faster eventually than just moving faster. If that makes sense.


What would you like to change about those paintings or what makes you say you don't know what you are doing?