#kittydragonart

[loupy-mongoose]

What if we made a sweet cake filled with spicy berries and gave it to Midas :>

Betrayal! D:

[mewtwoandme]

How’s your bot problem :3

Better thank God. They're no longer coming in hoards. It went back to the occasional few every so often.

(Watch, now that I said that I'm gonna jinx myself and they'll all start flooding in again knowing my luck XD)

[loupy-mongoose]

Do you have a ref for Nico?

I do now. :3

Hopefully his scar is readable enough between these two.

And I got one finished for Jovie as well~

@cozykomala asked me a while ago if Nico had any Lucario in him. That wasn't my intention, but since I got that, I've been drawing him with more Lucario-ish features. So yeah, maybe he does have some Lucario.

[loupy-mongoose]

That last piece aaaaaaaah beautiful and sweet, really captures how Lav feels about Randy :D

Also I love how you colour and shade everything, how do you do it? Do you think you could record a speed paint or something? What brushes do you use? Canvas size? How do you painstakingly colour within the lines? What device do you use?

Sorry for so many questions in one ask, I’m really curious lol. Hope you can answer these! No rush :3

First off, thank you so much!

I use Procreate on iPad, which has a handy-dandy little feature where it automatically records everything you do on a canvas, and you can create a time lapse of it. So, yes, I can give a speed paint. :3

(Yes I painted this specifically for this ask.) For comics (and this painting sample), I use a canvas that's 1813X2263. For doodle dumps and other less dedicated projects, I use a 1955X2357 canvas, rotating as I want or need to. If I have a bigger project I want to do, I start with Procreates "Square" canvas default (2048X2048) and crop as I need to as I work.

I've been sticking to this Jingsketch brush set for a while now, though I've modified some to make them more comfortable. As of now the set is free to download. (There appears to be a larger Jingsketch set that costs about $15--I may get that someday lol)

For smudging of shadows and markings, I use the Jingsketch "Jittery Smudge".

Alright, prepare for a thorough rundown of the time lapse. X3

As for how I color, the video shows my two most used methods. I do the Momo method when I want it to look a little neater or smoother, and the Midas method for when I don't care how unpolished it looks and just want to show a colored image.

For flats (the solid red seen in the video) I do it on a layer under the lines. I usually put all the flats on one layer, but this time I did their flats on separate layers for demonstration purposes, and merged them once they were both filled.

For Momo, I colored by drawing just inside the lines, erasing what went outside. Then used a Freehand (or equivalent) selection tool to fill in the inside. This is the more time consuming but smooth of the two methods, in my opinion.

For Midas, I specifically drew the outer lines thicker so that I could use the "automatic" (I guess that's "wand" in other programs? I'm not sure) selection to do a quick fill. This method will usually leave the colors with a hard, semi-unappealing edge. (Feathering the selection a little or smudging the flats can probably help with that, but I don't do that very often.)

What I do is select the OUTSIDE of the lines, expand the "Selection Threshold" so that it barely selects JUST outside the lines, then invert the selection so that it filles everything INSIDE the lines. With this method you need to be careful to get all the negative zones as well--I didn't think about demonstrating that in this painting, so here a mini-tut on that.

For the actual colors, I usually do each color on a separate layer set as a "Clipping Mask" to the flats layer. Eyes usually get a layer of their own--The iris colors and pupil (if present) get the Clipping Mask treatment until I'm satisfied with them and merge them into one eye layer.

For shading, I'll fill an entire layer, still Clipped to the flats, with my color of choice, usually set it to the Multiply blend mode, and adjust the opacity as I want. I usually shade the main body separately from the eyes, but try to match the blend mode and opacity settings.

For more high-effort projects, I'll fill a layer with a solid color under the shadow layer but above all the other colors so that I have a better idea of the shapes. Colors like on Midas here can really badly mess with the perception of the shapes and shadow locations. I may also add more Multiply layers if necessary.

And that's my lengthy and extensive look into how I paint~ Keep in mind this is MY process, and I admit I work in a rather quick, dirty, and even somewhat lazy way. So take what you will from this, and go arting as YOU please! ^w^

[mewtwoandme]

So from this ask, which artists do you normally have a “conference” with/talk to often?

Just TC, really. Cause again, I've known her the longest. We've been friends for 3 years. She's the first one to know about things going on in regard to what plans or ideas I want to do. Though we're part of a discord server with other fellow Mewtwo/mew artists, and I sometimes chat with the others on there now and then, like pokemon-ash-aus, phlurrii etc. Though I feel like I hardly talk with them enough... I'm not always active on discord and just come in briefly when I can sometimes. That and I'm just...an awkward ass introvert that requires time and patience in order to actually find people I'm comfortable around and vibe with, so sometimes I'm slow with reaching out to the other Mewtwo artist to talk if I don't know them all that well...I'd say they're all very nice acquaintances currently. It's things like this though that make me wish I was a more extroverted person, I'd probably be able to socialize with them better if I wasn't so nervous lol