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phoenixiancrystallist · 2 years ago

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Days 217 and 218 of the Great Artscapade of 2022! Because apparently I forgot to update you guys yesterday? Which I could have sworn I did. Hmm. My brain must be playing tricks on me again.

ANYWAY!!!

Day 217 sees the end result of not one, not two, not three, but four golden turds! See, I was practicing gold shading techniques to see which one I liked best, and the answer was no. I liked none of them. Why was I practicing making golden poop, you ask? Well, hypothetical question-asker, I'm glad you hypothetically asked! You see, I have a Christmas present for a friend that is over a dozen years late, and this Christmas present requires I do art-related things, and like a dumbass I decided part of the art-related things must look like gold. So here we are.

Day 218 sees a much better result that I actually like and will be replicating on the Dozen Years Late Christmas Present! Some things will be tweaked in the final piece. For example, I probably won't do quite as many strong highlights. Or I'll do more, who knows! Not me, that's for sure. I can't predict the future. Wish I could, it'd make my life so much easier. Oh, well. Such is life.

#the great artscapade of 2022 #bobbi's being weird again #art #my art #shading practice #art practice #technique testing #y'all I did SO MUCH RESEARCH trying to find a good gold painting tutorial that would work with my style #I found a kajillion that would work if I was going for something more painterly and less anime #but alas #so I had to make it up as I went #I DID keep a lot of the techniques from the tutorials in mind #and like #I KNOW how to shade things to look metallic #like the physics and science of it #I know how the light reflects and scatters and diffuses and all that #I know that there's actually a stronger shadow near the highlight than you'd think there should be #and that there's a lot of bounced and reflected light that contributes to the highlights to make it look shiny #and the weird thing is that this is exactly zero issue for me with colored pencil?#or it was back in high school #I'd probably struggle with it now #but basically yesterday I'd tried to recreate the colored pencil techniques I knew as well as a few painterly techniques I'd learned #but it turns out I was going about things ALL WRONG for how I do my shading with digital art #anyway there is now a kitty on my tiddies so I need to stop typing lol

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