Darktiste Sketchbook

[calebartist]

Definitely leaning more towards the bottom color, tho it's close between that and the third option, pretty much how i'd imagine an infernal throwing axe to look.

[darktiste]

Definitely leaning more towards the bottom color, tho it's close between that and the third option, pretty much how i'd imagine an infernal throwing axe to look.

Thank for passing by weill take your imput into the final tie breaking decision.

[darktiste]

Sadly i miss the start of swordtember just being absent minded like i am... so anyways let skip that part i am getting bored.

I did the 18 day prompt which was ''Ghoul''

Anyways i just want to do it because i did swordtember in 2022 but i want to try ''beat my other participation'' i think i did like 4 sword on the last swordtember so i think it would be a ''fail'' if i can't do atleast double that number.

Maybe i will do a side by side comparison just to see what 1 years as done to my work once the month end.

I will probably skip a few day because i still have other project i don't want to leave in the dust and should have finish a long time ago.

The good thing is i been away for a few day recently recharging my energy outside of civilisation and my drawing juice as refill in that small window.

Sadly with a step back i realize how little i seem to have done in term of art producing art in the last years... but let not put water on my fire i still learn to stream line my 2d to 3d process to include blender if the project could benefit from it and the big thing this years was learning more about the role of Ai could play in the art world and experimenting with it as not to be ''hard to change''which is definitively something i think was worth all the "fooling around'' which i think is important after almost a decade of drawing.

[darktiste]

I try to change the format this time i wasn't happy with the previous swordtember entry size.

So the prompt for this sword was Star

This one use ''Ai bashing'' basically a frankstein of a few image and i add a certain % of original content i use adobe illustrator and photoshop and sketchbook pro in this one in particular.

I really think that more argular and less organic work seem more logical to start in sketchbook for the initial idea but that sketchbook just doesn't offer me what i want when it time to do complex symmetry the way i feel is most natural and none destructive.I still got to play around a little more with that trio specially in illustrator to make the coloring stage alot faster.Ultimately i might end up only needing two maybe three program once i perfect what i have in mind.

Hope you enjoy.

[darktiste]

This one was a long one just to many layers and wasting time relearning some tool i thought i had master on both Illustator and photoshop.

This one is day 25 base on the word:Inquistor

Here a short description:This one is a fan art of warhammer 40 000 it a chainsaw blade it feature a winged skull with wing under decorative border near the teeth of the chainsawe blade there is a repeating leaf pattern in the middle of the blade there is a scroll inscribed with the word exterminus written in latin.

I wish i had more time to do more rendering on this one but at the rate of how thing are going i won't reach my goal so i am just move on and do a new sword and see if i can do 3 more but i doubt it.

[cgmythology]

The sword image looks great, very powerful image with great design and color choices.

Loving the design of your latest post as well, great use of line weight and another kick-ass design, very well done!

[darktiste]

The sword image looks great, very powerful image with great design and color choices.

Loving the design of your latest post as well, great use of line weight and another kick-ass design, very well done!

I rarely ever gave the love line deserve i am to tired by that point in general.I actually would say i have the same thickness line syndrome.Due to my carpal tunnel i try to keep my process pretty straight foward no redrawing and trying to avoid erasing.That why i use lock layers and mask to work as much none destructively as possible the lock layers help to stay inside the line so i don't have to do clean up and the mask help give me confidence that i can go back if necessary.

I got one last sword from the swordtember to finish so i can resume my other project... the swordtember kinda shown me i shouldn't do so many project at the same time at best one or two.The problem is when you get burn out of two project at the same time...

This swordtember is a fail for me as far as achieving a higher number of sword but i think the sword as more complex then previous years so that might explain why i didn't achieve as much as i would.

[darktiste]

Just a quick update this is my last sword for this swordtember.

The word of that day was Druid.

This one is only flat color because as i said previously i have a few other project i want closure with and september is over so it doesn't feel right to keep working on project that should normally probably be done in 1 day it also Inktober so i might take it as an opportunity to really go heavy on the line weight  and i might also crack up the amount of detail just because i won't have to render with color and it going to be a good opportunity to work in black in white.