Coinhero's sketchbook

[Coinhero]

Haven't updated this place in month T.T

@DESQUOLOR Proportions I think are something you just get better at with time and mostly artists care about that stuff the bigger problem is ,like you said, my compositions. I tend to paint the same stuff over and over because it's easy and my shape language is just random. Every image feels like it's stitched together and nothing really fits in. These are all problems that are hard to fix but I've been more focused on making concussion decisions with my compositions and am slowly figuring it out.

@ubem Thanks! I've been painting a lot with just a simple round brush trying to figure out what exactly I like in a painting and that fox image is made with the goal of figuring that out and that's why I think it came out looking good. I'm currently trying to figure out how to apply that same logic to more complex images and using more that just the hard round brush. Also that image is very simple because I made it as reference for a 3D sculpt and wasn't planning on showing it anywhere. Here's the sculpt (9 fucking hours of rendering)



@cgmythology Thanks I've been painting over exposed, over saturated messy color blobs for 4 years now and am finally starting to get it under control :D 

ok here's some stuff in order or completion 



^ made this because I wanted to just paint a stylized portrait because I never do that stuff and to get out of the comfort zone a bit



Don't remember why I made this, I need to take a better picture and edit it to look close to what it does in real life.



^ this is for a contest hosted by aniventure comiccon that's on the 14th next month. Theme was sci-fi and I had no idea what to do so by the time I sketched this out I had only a couple of days left to finish it. First time working under a tight deadline and on something I'm really not comfortable with so it was a real learning experience. I made 4-5 other different ideas before this one all completely different, my biggest problem was I wanted a more serious tone to the image and that's just not me. Here's some lines from an early sketch:



I was experimenting with a cyberpunk-ish environment and I made like a million different versions of this. For some reason I really like that stupid geisha drawing and I wanted it to be the focal point so I would redo everything and just keep the face and try to build the environment around it. Really stupid way of working don't do it!



At this point I started giving up and decided to just start from scratch and do the usual anime crap I always do. I repainted this a lot of times trying out new schemes but lost all of them. This is the point I got to and decided to start over but I liked the character so I kept her for the final image.

Values were a massive problem and at one point I just made the image greyscale and with a soft brush set to multiply decided to just change everything to the values I want. After that I repainted everything to match the values in the b&w version




Here's what I used to values reference. The final is still a bit of a mess but trust me before it was so fucking horrible that it's a miracle I managed to fix it at least somewhat.



Made this watercolor painting while waiting for the fox to render, turns out I have a pen that doesn't react to watercolor. I love it <3



at this point everything I was painting was with just a simple round brush and I wanted to use one of those big boy brushes so I painted this, it started out as evangelion fanart and here are some leftover lines from that:


I got 2 days of painting in to this but it just kept looking like shit and I kept changing the setting from swap to random concept art rocks back to swamp and it was just a mess. Painted the egg version because I just wanted to get something done.



Started working on a 3D scene to learn new techniques like making particle systems, texture painting, how to export stuff to substance and back to blender in a sensible way and a lot more. Spend about a week just trying out stuff and learning and stopped working on this when I figured out what I wanted to figure out and it would take too long remaking everything to make this look good.



here's something a bit more recent. I really like the lines in the early version but it all fell apart when I started painting, it was just way to chaotic and I couldn't decide on a focal point... so I started over. Newer version is still a mess but at least it got out of the line art stage and I really wanted to make a follow up to this image.



once again lots of versions and all of them shit in there own unique way. I think this on is ok-ish and I got pretty far in to painting it but just kind of lost interest. =/

At this point I was really frustrated at pretty much everything and need to rest my brain so I made some studies





I really like these 



and here's what I started working on yesterday, it's cute and I like cute also painting buildings is something I never do and need to learn.



some painting from today. I'll probably blur the background a bit and yea idk still figuring things out.
MEGA POST IS OVER NOW not proof reading it it's too much and I want to go eat dinner (I'll post more often now)