#ksa unhatched

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Heresy background

I was watching a traditional painting tutorial and it was showing how to do a process called ’blocking in’. I messed around a bit trying digitally (using a Procreate brush style similar to a traditional paintbrush) but it didn’t quite have the same effect.

It’s not the best… just an experiment. But it has a charm to it. The criss crossing strokes of the brush were meant to produce a smooth sky without strong movement in any one direction, but accidentally created a lot of movement, particularly near the ground. Almost as if particles of ash were kicking up in an ash storm and catching the light.

I have no idea what that is on the right. It could be Dorian himself or it could be a building. I can’t quite see for the smog.

@artwithoutblood

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Krow belongs to @thekrows-nest.

I probably won't finish this because the hair and skintone have me stuck. It may even have to be completely redrawn.

However. This picture was one of the the first detailed pieces attempted after buying Procreate Pocket in August and trying digital art out for the first time. It began as a low effort repaint of the 'toddler with gun' meme but then I started using it to properly learn the tools and went ham.

What I like: The detail of Krow's design and the blending of their skin tones. The realistic style. Their expression. This is before I read anything about facial proportion or expressions so I drew that face instinctively by eye, but the anguished emotion of the original still somehow came through.

What I don't like: It began as a lazy repaint over a toddler so the body proportions are off for an adult. Far too chunky.

I chose a default base colour that was too warm and light for Krow's skin and used a reference picture with harsh overly bright lighting that lightened and distorted the colours. This, in combination with overzealous blending of highlights into the mid tone, ended up whitewashing their skin. (I didn't know about changing brush opacity then.) In canon art and other fanart Krow has darker cool toned skin. (Krow is Indian/Bengali.)

Attempts to darken the shadows to put the lighter 'overexposed' looking parts of face in context and paint over with a more appropriate shade only orangewashed them, and adding more details to try and tone their skin down darker just turned their cute freckles into muddy hyperpigmentation. I wish I had known or knew how to just colour adjust the original. Ps. Those round dark shadows are from their headphones.

I'm sorry king. I'm still learning, studying guides and source material now and will try to do better next time.

Also all this was done on a smartphone with a cheap stylus so even with the fineliner brush tool as small as it could go I couldn't write small enough for the allotted space on the buttons - so the details on there are blurry approximations.

I also didn't Glaze it because the artifacts of the filter were highly visible, a problem I'm having a lot. I'm sorry for the watermarkish writing - don't want someone to repost it with no context and get me dragged.

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I give in.

In honour of another potential 'No Muzzle Dorian Week' here is the WIP shot.

It's not high quality being from a tiny image but you can see why Dorian is compelled to cover up - he's illegally pretty. Look at the puppy dog eyes, the slight moue, the concerned little eyebrows.

He is not understanding the computer and wants Aeron to do it for him.

Dorian's hair also looks softer and fluffier here, much closer to how I imagine it than the glamour shine accidentally given by highlighting it.

The dark grey was used as an underlay to pick out detail but if I'd chosen a pale peach or warmer dove/French grey I could have just done his whole hair like that.

Dorian belongs to @artwithoutblood and the 10:16 VN is now available on Steam.

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Working out the how to for easy bookshelf backgrounds, also how perspective fits in with that

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(Sorry. Due to the data scraping deal with Midjourney and OpenAI Tumblr isn't getting any more of my art.)

And you say I don't share :p

Samir from the upcoming VN Finding A Dream To Die In (?). Set in the Art Without Blood universe.

Reference is Alton Mason at Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2024. https://modelsof-color.tumblr.com/post/744715711698649088/alton-mason-at-vanity-fair-oscar-party-2024

Samir belongs to Catskets/ @artwithoutblood

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I was so tired last night and got very frustrated doing this but still picked up a pencil to practise.

Have a link. I'm not going to be putting my original art on Tumblr anymore. You know why. Anything is going on Pillowfort after being watermarked and Artshielded.

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Tutorials used:

Inspo/reference picture: Mug from TheNims on Etsy

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It seems progress pics motivate me a bit more so don’t mind the spamminess

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