11-13-2021, 01:08 PM
Jephyr, thank you for the feedback, I'm glad to hear it. Yeah, those less-saturated backgrounds worked out better.
This was an attempt at a wider piece than normal. I wasn't achieving the feeling I wanted so I ended up using an absurd amount of textured scatter brushes and low-opacity layers of pure orange. Bit of a shameful display.
This was a commission for a guy from Reddit of his WoW characters. I ended up spending way too much time on it considering the $ I asked for, so that was a learning experience. But the guy was happy with it.
In these next few pictures I mostly experimented with different kinds of textured brushes. I wanted to avoid the look of obvious digital brushstrokes, but that might be a pointless goal. I spent too much time on most of them, horsing around with small areas at 100% zoom.
For now I've gone back to traditional art because I currently enjoy it more, and it doesn't let me horse around for hours. I'm using up a neglected sketchbook with uneven pages so I usually do a lot of hatching and squiggling instead of side-of-the-lead strokes. All charcoal and graphite.
I've been posting pictures on the main art subreddit on Reddit. It's kind of fun because the site design makes for a more active audience, so you don't get the feeling that the picture disappeared into the void a minute after you uploaded it. If a picture gets no traction, you don't have to wonder if it's because nobody saw it. This was the most successful submission of mine by far (a whole 10.7k updoots, great life accomplishment). Many people asked where the penis is. I'll be honest, I thought having wolfman genitalia in the foreground would be too distracting. Plus I'd have to put a R18+ filter on it on all sites. We'll have to say it's a very muscular lady werewolf.
This was an attempt at a wider piece than normal. I wasn't achieving the feeling I wanted so I ended up using an absurd amount of textured scatter brushes and low-opacity layers of pure orange. Bit of a shameful display.
This was a commission for a guy from Reddit of his WoW characters. I ended up spending way too much time on it considering the $ I asked for, so that was a learning experience. But the guy was happy with it.
In these next few pictures I mostly experimented with different kinds of textured brushes. I wanted to avoid the look of obvious digital brushstrokes, but that might be a pointless goal. I spent too much time on most of them, horsing around with small areas at 100% zoom.
For now I've gone back to traditional art because I currently enjoy it more, and it doesn't let me horse around for hours. I'm using up a neglected sketchbook with uneven pages so I usually do a lot of hatching and squiggling instead of side-of-the-lead strokes. All charcoal and graphite.
I've been posting pictures on the main art subreddit on Reddit. It's kind of fun because the site design makes for a more active audience, so you don't get the feeling that the picture disappeared into the void a minute after you uploaded it. If a picture gets no traction, you don't have to wonder if it's because nobody saw it. This was the most successful submission of mine by far (a whole 10.7k updoots, great life accomplishment). Many people asked where the penis is. I'll be honest, I thought having wolfman genitalia in the foreground would be too distracting. Plus I'd have to put a R18+ filter on it on all sites. We'll have to say it's a very muscular lady werewolf.
