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All three of these images, I have a tutorial to draw up on my YouTube and instagram!

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Did an art study of a really good artist: Derek Domnic D’Souza

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Tutorial up on my instagram:

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This illustration is also referencing my webtoon:

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Bit of an art dump. Hope you had a blessed October.

Come check out my insta if you want to see tutorials on how to draw stuff like this :)

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Thought I’d doodle something cute, since I’m sick 😭

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Alright we got Silvermist done!!! Had a lot of fun with playing with the water. I’m thinking about getting into that more.

Love the fairy crew in Tinkerbell. I don’t know who to do next, but I’m really excited about it. Might even do another one of Silvermist, simply because she was one of my favorites.

And if you want more, I post more on my instagram than I do here, so come over and check it out:

https://www.instagram.com/alphapainter76?igsh=ZXdieHBoeDEzdTRz&utm_source=qr

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Saw the latest drop of season two of arcane, got really excited about Vi’s new design. I love her dark hair and face paint.

The lighting could have been better in this one, but that was mostly because I was trying to figure out what I wanted as the drawing went. But for a first fanart, I kinda like it.

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Anyone tinkerbell fans? I’ve been considering drawing the whole cast but was unsure. Very excited about how this came out though. I grew up with this franchise and I got very excited with these results, even if it’s not my best work.

Check out my insta for more works like these:

https://www.instagram.com/alphapainter76?igsh=ZXdieHBoeDEzdTRz&utm_source=qr

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For any death/wolf lovers out there for the puss in boots fandom, I did a little fanart :)

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Some things I’ve been doing over the week.

Been studying WLOPs art style for years now. But now I’m really trying to buckle down and take inspiration from him.

Two of these are characters from my comic: The Plague Doctor’s Apprentice. If you wanna go check that out:

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Alright we’ve got another one for my scar lovers! The character is one of my ocs, Tyanna. An assassin with a venomous taste in sarcasm

The lighting was tricky. The scars turned out alright.

Glow: I like how the skin rendering turned out

Grow: I’d like the face more anatomically proportionate, and the face all around seems unfinished. Same with the hair.

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For my fantasy forest fanatics and my shire vibe lovers! This one was very fun to experiment with and the vibes are just so relaxing. Very helpful escape from a stressful situation

I love how the warm lighting came out, and the grass actually looks kinda decent this time 😂

This one also stars my lovely character Xeth who is in my webcomic: The Plague Doctor’s Apprentice, if you wanna go check it out; https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/the-plague-doctors-apprentice/list?title_no=973715

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Unreachable

Wandering mind, full of creation

Meandering lines, lost in elation 

Each stroke, I broke a little inside

Each fate, I hate. My will defied

I painted this in Feb 2022 about what it's like to be an artist with repetitive strain injury. In 2008, When I was 18, I made my first comic titled 1000 Words, it was about an artist helping a little girl with a broken family similar to my own. It received such positive feedback that I changed my Environmental Science major at UCBerkeley to Art major. Ever since then, my goal has been to tell stories with my art. Stories that are important to me. My next comic, Knite, was about a boy who wants to put the stars back into the polluted skies of China, my homeland. The comic after that, Fisheye Placebo, is a cyberpunk story about living in the age of technology, about fighting censorship and propaganda.

Unfortunately, I never got to finish Knite nor Fisheye Placebo. By the time I was 24, I was drawing day and night with no regards to my health. Not only did I get repetitive strain injury in my drawing hand, but my entire health suffered. My roommates had to rush me to the ER after fainting one night. I remember looking at my swollen right hand, my fingers like sausages, not even able to hold a pen, and just cry.

I've gone to the doctors and physical therapists. One told me I have Lupus (I do not), and another told me to put ice on it. More recently, I met a friend who happens to an amazing physical therapist and he was able to help me regain a lot of use of my hand. At my worst, I could only draw an hour a week, but now I am able to draw 2 hours a day. My hand is unlikely to fully heal, but I'm so grateful to regain what I have.

To my fellow artists who suffers the same, please know you're not alone. I can't promise that it'll get better, and it's cliche to say don't give up, but I want to keep hoping that no matter what the world throws at us, we will continue to make art.

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To all my book lovers and writing or reading enthusiasts!!

This is my character Xeth, enjoying some reading solitude. Xeth is featured in the webcomic: The Plague Doctor’s Apprentice, if any of you want to go check it out!

I love how the blue lighting came out, and how the wood environment produced a challenge. I’m still learning how to draw backgrounds, so this was a really good exercise.

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Was a wonderful drawing exercise. I’m beginning to love drawing backgrounds and environments more and more.

Such a beautiful purple sky…

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It’s August ladies and gents. That means it’s Smaugust. Had a lot of fun doing this piece, and it shows how far I’ve come in the art journey. I’ve enjoyed drawing art for a while, and hopefully this will inspire anyone who comes across it.

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Golden hour painting for sunset lovers!! Loving my oc and his beautiful farmland.