05-17-2023, 12:57 PM
Berebobe2: I mostly got commissions just from having people find my work, whether that's on a site like DA or posting it on Discord servers. I haven't tried to advertise yet. But I'd recommend checking out The Art Mentor on youtube. As grating as I find the guy in terms of presentation, he seems to have a lot of good advice for working with non-corporate clients.
Leo Ki: The AI images below are all AI, in that I didn't paint over them. Also, just to be clear, I don't really have any intention to ever paint over AI generated stuff and try to fix it. At least, not right now. You can see what I'm trying to do w/ the workflow below.
I've noticed that when I do loose sketches and then go to line art, it's harder to see mistakes. Like my eyes will adjust to mistakes or bad proportions. So I've been trying to go straight to finished lines, and if things look wrong, I just erase an area entirely and start over.
![[Image: 2fe2fffe3eb09d259408288477e2dfbf203d1196.pnj]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/162792f60561313620fe7d3ac4f35136/6327d32f3094c119-e1/s2048x3072/2fe2fffe3eb09d259408288477e2dfbf203d1196.pnj)
![[Image: 915cce4796e2c9ce2f1bca28e7fd3867a52bca2a.pnj]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a0ebddc5c53fe2c6be068429d8998c50/6327d32f3094c119-8c/s2048x3072/915cce4796e2c9ce2f1bca28e7fd3867a52bca2a.pnj)
And here's something I started as a quick sketch, just a joke about fantasy armor, which I'm turning into a finished painting. Once I got to the flats, I put it through Stable Diffusion Img2Img to generate some references. These are good for getting some color and lighting suggestions. Then down below I just do the workflow I described before. This time I jumped straight to color since I have the AI references.
Not quite at the point where I can start doing the paint over the top but pretty close.
![[Image: c04ba8814e5f1d8efbfd63eca6dce62f84c4e3b2.pnj]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7b088fae30de10322c6f73ee8cfca6f/6327d32f3094c119-a8/s2048x3072/c04ba8814e5f1d8efbfd63eca6dce62f84c4e3b2.pnj)
![[Image: 922b6de47ca261d52df4ecb8b43c1a76406fee6f.pnj]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/9ffe5a5d78d9d0eef3958232cdf373ab/6327d32f3094c119-73/s2048x3072/922b6de47ca261d52df4ecb8b43c1a76406fee6f.pnj)
Leo Ki: The AI images below are all AI, in that I didn't paint over them. Also, just to be clear, I don't really have any intention to ever paint over AI generated stuff and try to fix it. At least, not right now. You can see what I'm trying to do w/ the workflow below.
I've noticed that when I do loose sketches and then go to line art, it's harder to see mistakes. Like my eyes will adjust to mistakes or bad proportions. So I've been trying to go straight to finished lines, and if things look wrong, I just erase an area entirely and start over.
And here's something I started as a quick sketch, just a joke about fantasy armor, which I'm turning into a finished painting. Once I got to the flats, I put it through Stable Diffusion Img2Img to generate some references. These are good for getting some color and lighting suggestions. Then down below I just do the workflow I described before. This time I jumped straight to color since I have the AI references.
Not quite at the point where I can start doing the paint over the top but pretty close.