Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Dominicque]

They have a gallery at the factory!? But the bar is a better place for the portraits I would say. The staff get to see them more often :)

What I meant by hard round brush is basically the plain pencil with a wider diameter, no effects on it. It's totally possible to paint with that if you play with the opacity and size depending on what part you're painting. It's actually a good exercise to master it before using more complex brushes.

I think you can change the options of Clip Studio's color picker to pick either from a specific layer or the blended result: https://www.clip-studio.com/site/gd_en/c...ropper.htm

I've never used highlighting or darkening modes so I can't advise. Could be that you don't really need these? I find it more satisfying to find the colors I need rather than tweaking the underlying ones.

But the technical glitches you experience with the tablet, the delays and such, are worrying, they can hamper you and even turn you away from digital painting. When I started digital I had a long period of adjusting to the delays (which are probably slighter than what you have), also looking at the screen while moving the pen on another, slippery, surface was a bit painful.
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Well, they have a gallery as part of the social space with the working bar, the brewery is in a separate location. It's a social enterprise that helps people with disabilities gain employment and experience. The brewery is the newest strain. They also run art classes and wood working workshops. So a 'hard round' is just a pencil? Always thought it was one of the actual paint brushes. I'll try and play around with it. I guess what the link you supplied, I would need 'Image', but I'm not sure where that is. On the 'reference' button on layers doesn't have a drop down. I'm trying to get a pure white to highlight, but it ends up being tinted. I just found the 'highlight' airbrush after playing around with some brushes. 
I was working on the earlier girl centaur piece and quit, because my tablet kept on stopping and lagging, plus when I colour picked it wouldn't pick up the same colour. After not using it for a while I had to reinstall my Wacom (couldn't get the Huion to work properly), it's working OK, for now... 
Digital is a learning curve, I find getting used to drawing on a surface tablet and viewing a screen in tandem not too cumbersome. However, learning what all the tools are for and how to get them to work for you when you just want to immediately drawing/paint is a lesson in frustration.

Digital art can be a nightmare to get used to. From experience, it can be both physical and technical issues. 

It sounds like with your Clip Studio paint issues, there might be frustration in organization? (Please correct me if I am wrong). Its important that you take your physical environment into consideration. What kind of tablet do you use? is it on a desktop or ipad? Having navigation issues in a program can cause frustration in the learning process over all. I have some resources that may help you. 

As for your painting questions, have you ever watched Marco Bucci's 10 minute to better painting series on youtube? They are very well made and I feel like they will aid you in your painting process. 

Overall good starting point for digging deeper into digital art.

Hi, it's very hard. I have an idea of what I'll like to implement, but have no idea how to do it. There are other random frustrations, too. Like when I colour pick and it doesn't give me the right colour and I don't know why. I'm using a desk tablet, have no coin for a display one. I used Krita before, but got CSP for Christmas, so I'm trying to focus on that. It doesn't have the same brush I'm used to and I have to take a pause as my tablet keep on lagging. It would either do that or stop abruptly and then strike a line forward. I have looked up Ctrlpaint, but he uses PS and like 99% of digital painting tutorials. I get so far then get lost, because I don't know what the equivalent brush is in Clip/Krita.

Is Marco's the same? I'll look it up, though.

 I believe Marco Bucci mostly uses photoshop but his overall knowledge on painting is very good. 

Check out his video series on painting

Also, Check out this video on clip studio's workspace settings. I would learn to set up Quick access.  It really a great way to organize CSP tools. 

I hope this helps. 

Thanks for the links, I'll try and acquaint myself to Clip's user interface. 

Nice work with your latest sketches, you have some very dynamic and interesting poses there!  Nice to see you painting again as well!  Are you planning on developing them further?  I think they could use some more depth in terms of shading.  Try thinking in simple shapes when shading for the initial stages to give a more dimensional look.  Keep it up!

Thanks, ultimately I want to draw dynamic figures from 'imagination', but it's a long and frustrating road ahead. I'm so used to just focusing on shapes, construction and having clean lines, I forget about the 'filling'. I want to learn how to draw men, so I've been doing studies, then turning them into Apollo from The Authority, because he's super beautiful. I've drawn some fanart and will try to digitise those as I would already have something to go of off, when I try and paint. I'll try to still keep the 'simple shapes' thing in mind, but I may need to take some time out for some separated study to truly grasp the concept.

I find masculine women and feminine men really appeal, so I wanna get better at drawing them. Most of the poses I want for women are done by male models. Saw this image on Pinterest and couldn't help, but draw a female version.


I have several fashion brands in my head starting with the 'Cheeky Boo!' brand. Basically very funky and quirky fashion for plus size women- there's a gap in the market. The initial concept was all three fashion houses in one image, but I couldn't get it right, therefore went looking for references and just focused on the first girl. 

Trying the Wolfsbane 'screaming out' pose, but with Evo!X-23. Wasn't so happy with the face, so studies from a reference. If I digitise this, I plan to fill and adjust the face. The model was an adult, but the character herself is only around 14 years old. Any tips on how hair works with wind/motion, like this?
Some pose studies and drawing men as Apollo.
Having a go a painting Apollo's profile. I used two lighting refs.


Wanna play around with painting style, people use just flats, but it's more 'polished' than this. It has charm though, saved this version if/when I try a 'blended' out version, like above.
A concept I tried, but couldn't get quite down.
Breaking down a fight pose.
Using that to draw Iron Fist.
Actually trying to get an idea down from my head without refs. I still can't do it. It's so tiresome.
Here is the same image with refs. I did enjoy this though. It was fun, I just need to work on the feeling that it's 'not mine'. Sometimes the fear creeps in. 
An older version of Jenny and her fathers.
The female version of Apollo and Midnighter: Andrea and Lucille. 
The Trent-Pulaski's getting ready for bed. This was very hard. What are backs? What is perspective? If anyone wants to redline, fine by me.