11-08-2019, 01:33 PM
@Rotohail:
Glad I handpicked comics that you will want to read. Not sure if the mask is ripoff or homage, anyway please read it from the beginning to not spoil yourself ;) Tapas.io will always show the last chapter first :(
The Osara ecosystems are very diverse and I have some written descriptions of some organisms and systems but the illustrations I made don't match their peculiarities unfortunately. The most puzzling organism though is the ground itself, and the air is alive too, the suns too (there are no solar systems as you can guess). I can't find any reference to The 100th, do you mean The 100, the TV show?
I did consider at some point making the dryad a bit less human, like the triton, but one thing held me back: I wanted to play with the mythology cliche of the beauty nymphs, only this nymph is nothing like them, she eats snakes alive and fights wolfs barehanded, and can be very bad tempered. Making her human looking enforced the play. However, I made a joking attempt below. By the way the 'fire pit' is actually a badly botched glow-in-the-dark termite hill.
Man, you arm pain must have been such a terrible time, I do hope you take better care now and hold your pen like a feather. Yes, progress is a funny thing, and my eye is always more advanced than my hand so I never like what I do... except when I tell a story and I consider the story redeems the art.
The photo study actually calls for geometry and anatomy breakdown, you're right. What I attempted instead is looking at the patches of values without making any lines, as a vague memory of my speed painting period. I wasn't good at speed painting.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment so in depth!
@Jephyr:
Very monochromatic indeed. The amount of trouble I'm getting into figuring how a green ambient light works on a green skin, argh!
I concur, when one can't help it, one should keep doing art or face the consequences. A decade without art has not made me sad, because I have other interests (too many probably), but now that I come back to it I feel an intense retrospective sadness of sorts, it's hard to describe.
Thank you for passing by!
@Ash:
Wow, I'm so glad you mention the sense of space! I love making my characters hike in the wilderness.
Your advice about focus detail is so very true and is something I used to forget regularly at the time, and forgot again now that I'm back at it. The new version below is still terrible at that but I'll make an effort for the next version.
Thank you thank you!
So, this week is a horror, my day job is hectic and leaving me exhausted and I fall asleep on my tablet. I still managed to continue the attitude/painting research and I clearly don't know what I'm doing as you can see.
And the study. I fixed one hundred mistakes and some more and I'm still far from the goal. No method, you say?...
Glad I handpicked comics that you will want to read. Not sure if the mask is ripoff or homage, anyway please read it from the beginning to not spoil yourself ;) Tapas.io will always show the last chapter first :(
The Osara ecosystems are very diverse and I have some written descriptions of some organisms and systems but the illustrations I made don't match their peculiarities unfortunately. The most puzzling organism though is the ground itself, and the air is alive too, the suns too (there are no solar systems as you can guess). I can't find any reference to The 100th, do you mean The 100, the TV show?
I did consider at some point making the dryad a bit less human, like the triton, but one thing held me back: I wanted to play with the mythology cliche of the beauty nymphs, only this nymph is nothing like them, she eats snakes alive and fights wolfs barehanded, and can be very bad tempered. Making her human looking enforced the play. However, I made a joking attempt below. By the way the 'fire pit' is actually a badly botched glow-in-the-dark termite hill.
Man, you arm pain must have been such a terrible time, I do hope you take better care now and hold your pen like a feather. Yes, progress is a funny thing, and my eye is always more advanced than my hand so I never like what I do... except when I tell a story and I consider the story redeems the art.
The photo study actually calls for geometry and anatomy breakdown, you're right. What I attempted instead is looking at the patches of values without making any lines, as a vague memory of my speed painting period. I wasn't good at speed painting.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment so in depth!
@Jephyr:
Very monochromatic indeed. The amount of trouble I'm getting into figuring how a green ambient light works on a green skin, argh!
I concur, when one can't help it, one should keep doing art or face the consequences. A decade without art has not made me sad, because I have other interests (too many probably), but now that I come back to it I feel an intense retrospective sadness of sorts, it's hard to describe.
Thank you for passing by!
@Ash:
Wow, I'm so glad you mention the sense of space! I love making my characters hike in the wilderness.
Your advice about focus detail is so very true and is something I used to forget regularly at the time, and forgot again now that I'm back at it. The new version below is still terrible at that but I'll make an effort for the next version.
Thank you thank you!
So, this week is a horror, my day job is hectic and leaving me exhausted and I fall asleep on my tablet. I still managed to continue the attitude/painting research and I clearly don't know what I'm doing as you can see.
And the study. I fixed one hundred mistakes and some more and I'm still far from the goal. No method, you say?...