#and the lineart was really frustrating

[candy8448]

Based on this fic by @klesek

[crabsnpersimmons]

"Do your best today! I'll be waiting here when you get home, starlight~💕"

had two busy days of work outside of my cave and the only thing that kept me going was the sight of my housewife/househusband Eclipse waiting for me at home

that is, the sketch of him waiting for me to finish drawing him 😂

starring @starriegalaxy's Eclipse from her Fear Factor AU/House Husband AU

[wandixx]

I didn't realized I haven't posted it before

Ghost of fries and hero of cookies art!!!

aka how I figured out Dani's Hoopoe costume design and some chibis (with my mediocre marker skills)

"Ghost of fries and hero of cookies" is a cute and fluffy fic I wrote about Dani going to Gotham and accidentally became Signal's sidekick. Here is tumblr link. Here is AO3

Anyway, let's get to the art

Photos may be poor quality, my scanner did shitty job, and I tried to fix it up a bit in Ibis Paint, but there is only so much I could do

Hoopoe with hoopoe, to get you hooked up :)

This is finished design, so now we can get to the journey there. Some drawings will be just Dani because, yes, she threw on a cape, but I still needed to know how she looked like underneath.

And in the love of Gods, I was not going to put a child in the crop top.

Or at least I changed that when it hit me that I can... just do that. I can redesign her. Anyway, chronologically:

As you can see, in the beginning, both her cape and her mask had some more interesting designs that I got rid of. Not because I don't like it, I still think it's pretty cute, but! Mask got simplified because I realized that Bats keep their masks pretty simple in color, and she got her mask from Duke, so it needed to be simpler. Just... let's say that the one with a bit more fun stuff going on was her original paper mask, and she was pouting up a storm when Signal gave her such boring mask in exchange. THE ABSOLUTE BETRAYAL!

And the cape got more boring because it's literally a blanket. I don't think she could get a blanket with this specific pattern. But for a funny bit that I thought out when it was too late, The Pin that holds her cape together is either something like "I ❤️ Central City" or Flash merch. I highly encourage you to suggest to me what it could look like

Anyway, then came actual figuring out of her actual costume

I don't know what to tell about this part, to be honest. Maybe I would vibe better with the first one if I kept green parts one shade instead of... 4 or 5. Second one just isn't it at all, though I could probably give her belt back at some point. Third one was pretty close but this 》 shape on her torso just felt weird, so I just simplified it to the straight line in the fourth, which is the final. The elbow protection there was literally spur of the moment idea when I looked at the figure drawing and decided "I like the elbow shapes. Let's keep them" and I kept them.

Anyway, this is other shot of finished Hoopoe!Dani, with better view of her costume:

And chibis! Chilling on the roof with Signal and eating fries like good lil gremlin ghosts oath to do:

I'm frankly really proud of the chibis because for the life of me, I usually cannot draw them without feeling that their faces went through a hydraulic press or at least met a wall at really high speed.

That's all for today

[minticecodes]

[ID: Five marker and ink drawings. Clockwise:

Side profile of DMC3 Vergil, shadowed in blue.

DMC3 Dante playing a guitar with a skull on its head and a horned body. He's wearing a red shirt and black ripped jeans.

Child Vergil tugging a greatly oversized purple longcoat over himself. He looks down with tears on his cheeks.

Fullbody of Dante in his DMCV design, hands on hips.

Closeup of Vergil in his DMCV design. He's got a playing card between his fingers, raised in front of his determined face. His fingers just block out the 'uno' cardback. End ID]

More sketchbook doodles ft. brushpen.

[enthusiastic-nimrod]

My carnie girl! I've had her sketch sitting in my files for a long time now, so it's a relief to finally have her done.

Does she count as a clown? I feel like she's clown-adjacent...

[batfossil-fr]

I’ve been really thinking of reopening my art shop soon… I’ve been taking some practice doodles (hence all the posting lately) while I shake off my rust and I’m finding things I enjoy working on again. I miss trying my hand at more dragons/OCs and colors. my shop’s so broken rn lmao but that’s a problem for a later date it’s just nice getting back into art

[st4rstudent]

Fresh Air

SURPRISE TIMELAPSE ATTACK!

[dystopia-incognito]

Oh, look who showed up, too! Pissy Barbie Doll and Moth Menace. <3 Vel and Val, "coloured", here.

Finished drawing, here.

Vox & Lila lineart, here.

[batshikns]

this is how far i got on that poezai art 😕

[gardenofhope]

at what point will I be able to draw faster

[toonfinatic]

I think it genuinely sucks that there's no actual animation program that works as easily as FireAlpaca's animation mode. Literally every time i try and learn an Actual Professional animation program i give up because they're never all that intuitive to use and tutorials never explain things in terms my autistic ass can understand

[c00kiesart]

Oh I know you just said you've been told your art looks like candy but to add it SPECIFICALLY reminds me of sugar cookies or those soft taffies that are braided together.

Very soft but very bold! Which is so interesting to see. The boldness being how you utilize line weight in your work! Like seriously I'm blown away by studying which lines you make bolder and which ones you make thinner. Giving such weight to certain shapes that the rendering you do only adds to that weight but also softens the piece beautifully!

Oh sorry sorry I'm gushing. I adore your art to bits!

AHHH SKETCHY THANK YOU THANK YOU!! Always appreciate you in my notifs! And the taffy and sugar cookies thing is VERY much intentional, I like making my art look like something you find in a bakery

And I try really hard with my lineart??? I actually think I’m not that great at it just yet but it’s so reassuring to hear someone studies it and stuff! Line weight is super important

I’ve really only been doing digital work for I think 2 years? So I’m still very much learning xD but thank you for letting me know I’m doing good so far! By all means gush! I really love feedback

[sammypog]

stabs my digital art violently. why does my lineart always look like shit what am i doing wrong. how do i render. how do i do anything that is not realism. have i mentioned how does rendering work i have absolutely no idea. how do you make digital art Look Good. especially without a reference when you’re not drawing in a realistic style. HOW THE FUCK DO I MAKE GOOD LINEART. STAB STAB STAB

[gatitobladee]

my very own tips for young artists that wouldhave helped me immensely

- im begging you practice face shapes that arent a triangle with spiky chin. there is so much variety in face shapes

- if you hate the lineart go over it one more time. especially if it's traditional art and you cant ctrl+z

- ummm. study and do it with your hand & not your eyes. i look at pictures all day and still nothing beats just sitting down and practicing

[iraprince]

gonna show u guys a little opalescent highlight hack i threw together today

rainbow gradient above your main figure (i usually have all my main figure folders/layers in one big folder, so i can clip gradient maps + adjustments to it!). liquify tool to push the colors around a bit. STAY WITH ME I KNOW IT LOOKS STUPID RN I'M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS

THEN: set it to add/glow (or the equivalent in ur drawing program), lower the opacity a bit, and apply a layer mask. then u can edit the mask with whatever tools you like to create rainbow highlights!!

in this case i'm mostly using the lasso fill tool to chip out little facets, but i've also done some soft airbrushing to bring in larger rainbow swirls in some areas. it's pretty subtle here, but you can see it better when i remove the gradient map that's above everything, since below i'm working in greyscale:

more granular rambling beneath the cut!

u could also just do this with a brush that has color jitter, but what i like about using layer masks for highlight/shading layers is how simple and reversible it makes everything. i can use whatever brushes i want, and erasing/redoing things is super low stakes, which is great when i often approach this stuff with a super trial-and-error approach.

example: have u ever thrown a gradient w multiple colors over an entire piece, set it to multiply etc, and then tried to erase it away to carve out shadows/highlights? it's super frustrating, bc it looks really good, but if u erase something and then change ur mind later, u basically would have to like. recreate the gradient in the area u want to cover up again. that's how i used to do things before figuring out layer masks!! but masking basically creates a version of this with INFINITE undo bc u can erase/re-place the base layer whenever u want.

anyway, back to rambling about this specific method:

i actually have TWO of these layers on this piece (one with the liquified swirls shown above, and another that's just a normal concentric circle gradient with much broader stripes) so i can vary the highlights easily as needed.

since i've basically hidden the rainbow pattern from myself, the colors in each brushstroke i make will kind of be a surprise, which isn't always great -- but easily fixable! for example, if i carve out a highlight and it turns out the rainbow pattern in that area is way too stripey, i can just switch from editing the mask to editing the main layer and blur that spot a bit.

also, this isn't a full explanation of the overall transparency effect in these screencaps! there's other layer stuff happening below the rainbow highlights, but the short version is i have all this character's body parts in different folders, each with their own lineart and background fill, and then the fill opacity is lowered and there's multiply layers clipped to that -- blah blah it's a whole thing. maybe i'll have a whole rundown on this on patreon later. uhhh i think that's it tho! i hope u get something useful out of this extremely specific thing i did lmao

[holytrickster]

sitting there like has my art gotten better over time or do I just add way too much unnecessary detail now