#no more lineart! this was much faster tbh i will probably keep this up

[fleshkiss]

sorry if this has been answered before (i tried looking but tumblr search sucks), but what size canvas do you use?? and what are your brush settings for your lineart brush?? i love how smooth and clean your lines are : 0

hello!💖 i’m so sorry for the extremely late reply but ohhhh i don’t think i’ve answered what canvas size i draw on before and it’s been awhile since i answered an ask my brush settings so i’ll update that too!<3 tbh my uhhh my drawing process isn’t the most straightforward and my brush settings are something i’m still figuring out myself so this might change again later and i want to say there’s probably a more convenient way to go about everything than my approach but i’d be more than happy to answer with my current process just in case! 

gonna leave my answer under the read more since i might go off a bit haha

here are my sketch/lineart brush settings on paint tool sai! i happen to use the same brush for both of these drawing stages and for the the brush size i usually switch off between 100 and 120! c:

as for the canvas size i usually draw on, i start off with like maybe an 8x8 page at 300 dpi for my thumbnails and sketches so i don’t draw straight to the final size immediately! for example, if i need to work on an illustration/comic with certain dimensions, i’ll take the final dimension size, use the bucket tool to fill the canvas with a random color, make a selection, and then resize it down to the 8x8 canvas! this personally helps me to sketch something down faster while still keeping in mind what space i can use within the final dimensions rather than me taking a guess! [below the small rectangles were resized from a 5x8 canvas size (the actual size the final piece is going to be drawn on) laid out on an 8x8 canvas)

next, i’ll do my rough sketches on these thumbnails and then when i find i’m happy with the composition layout, i’ll grab my thumbnail sketch to transfer over to the final canvas size and resize it until it fits the whole canvas. once the thumbnail is all sized up, i’ll clean my thumbnail sketch so it has more polish and it’s closer to what the final lineart might look like! (sorry it might be hard to tell bc i didn’t use a different color BG for these sketches to see the edges but on the left is my small thumbnail sketch and the right is my sized up clean sketch!)

and yeah!! i think long story short, i use different canvas sizes at different stages! for my sketch/thumbnails, i prefer to draw smaller and then when it comes to clean sketch/final lineart i draw on the final dimensions which are usually set for print! it varies between projects, for example, the final dimensions of my saiou dog comic was 5x8 inches but if another project for let’s say a zine illustration has a template for 8.5 x 11, then i’ll work on that size for my final lineart! c:

but waaa sorry i really went off and if this doesn’t really make much sense, when i draw i usually feel scattered and tend to go back and forth a lot until i come up with something i’m happy with but please feel free to let me know if there’s anything you might want clarification on and i’ll do my best to answer! thanks again for asking and it means a lot that you enjoy my lineart! hope this helps even a little<3

[sobdasha]

I had some time to inktober today!

so, you know that feel when you see a tutorial for a nifty technique and you say to yourself “that’s so cool, I’mma try it!” and you don’t try it until several years later and you didn’t look it up again first? THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED TODAY.

prior to October, I’d done the lineart for my 2020 calendar (gonna be Link’s Awakening themed, it’s the one in blue). Because of the light table, I realized I could reuse the lineart again to practice painting techniques without having to worry about drawing something first. I love being lazy!

I started by doing the shading on the clouds. I wanted to see how a wet-on-wet technique would work, from an art class ages and ages ago. I dowsed the insides of the clouds and then swirled ink in the water. Pros, it’s very fun to watch, it more or less accomplished my goal of having a wash that didn’t stop on a hard line and sort of faded into the white area. Cons, there was probably a better way to do it than I did. Next, I inked in all the lines. I wanted to practice that tutorial, to get an effect of sharp white shapes on a soft, melted-out background. Since I didn’t look at the tutorial again first, I erred on the side of caution and drew everything really heavy with the ink, and couldn’t remember if I should let it dry first or not lol. It turned out that I had WAY TOO MUCH INK so the sky is very dark as I blended out into the background from the outlines of the stars and clouds and Windfish. And because I got anxious about everything drying and leaving weird lines, I didn’t do a good job of taking my time to very thoroughly soften the lines as I washed them out. So I got only about 50% of the effect that I wanted. That said, I still think it looks very cool. And the act of swirling the brush around is very therapeutic, like coloring. Also, I see why people like inking with a brush. Trying to do the long curves of the Windfish in pen was....horrible and nerve-wracking and the lines shook everywhere as they started and stopped. With a brush, it flowed very nicely, faster than my mind could keep up with my hand tbh but I didn’t actually make any huge glaring mistakes so. That’s certainly something.

Future me, I hope you learn something from this.

[kingjamesonfawkes]

Oh defo defo!! I plan on making a page for them later because stuff with my ocs gives me life & I have a few interactions written between them and canon characters that are just.. chillin on my computer.

So more info about OCs under the cut if you want to read about them! 

Azalea and Sullivan are the most fleshed out but I have a lot of ideas for all 5 of my babies.. Feel free to send me asks about my ocs~! I love talking about them I’m a huge nerd haha. 

If y’all are REALLY interested, like i said I have a lot of interactions written for most of them saved on my computer. ((mostly with Sullivan but I have some of all the others as well))

________________________ Azalea

Azalea is the first overwatch OC I made! She started as just like “this is me, but in overwatch” and since I made her she’s grown into her own character. There is still a lot of me in her personality but her background and some parts of her personality are completely different now.

Azalea is a 35 year old who lives in Las Vegas. She’s a magician by trade. She’s very very flirty and one-night stands are abundant. She has problems with getting close with people, it gives her anxiety and stress, and this leads to commitment issues.  She’s originally from a small town in the southwest where, when she was 8, she saw her first magic act and she was like “magic is cooool” and she started teaching herself party tricks.  Over her life & during the time of the uprising she studied technomancy because she wanted to be the World’s Greatest Magician. This got her her show in Las Vegas. (Her stage name is the Mistress of Mysticism) Her show in Las Vegas led to a party lifestyle, and she got into heavy drugs which fucked up a lot of her personal contacts. She hit rock bottom and almost lost her magic show, which is the only thing she really cares about, so she went to rehab and got clean. She’s really careful now but certain situations trigger her urge to use again.  Her manager and closest friend is an omnic named “Edie,” and she commonly is seen supporting omnic rights and protecting them from assaults.  At the time of the recall she is recruited by Winston for Overwatch because he thinks she would be an asset to the team. 

She’s 5′4′‘ with wavy dark brown hair and green eyes. She wears glasses. She has pale skin with freckles on her body. Her outfit is a black and white tuxedo dress with lime green details. She has both of her arms covered in sleeve tattoos of florals in black lineart.  Her weapon (& key item in her shows) is gold with green and purple gems on it.  [The first thing i drew of her] [Here’s a ref] But i forgot her tattoos [Heres a page of doodles] (spoiler i ship her with Hanzo)

“In Game” (support hero) >Creates ‘orbs’ from her staff. (Works similar to Zen’s harmony & discord orbs) She has to aim them and shoot them, they do small amounts of poison damage when hitting an enemy, and heal when they hit a teammate. Hitting the same target more than once builds the effect.  >Smoke Bombs for quick getaways. Enemies in the smokebomb area show up red like with hanzo’s sonar or widow’s ult. Smoke lasts for only a few seconds.  >(I dont have a secondary ability for her whoops) >>ultimate: “Grand Finale” : heals nearby teammates and poisons enemys in the radius, Azalea disappears for a quick getaway (invisible like sombra)  She passively heals her shields but not her health. 

Voiceline ideas: Her ult “GET READY FOR THE GRANDE FINALE!”  Elimination “Easy as pulling a rabbit from a hat” “That’s the trick!” “It’s all in the cards” (dorky magic stuff tbh)

Sullivan

Sullivan is my first junker oc, I have 2 of them. I ship her with Jamie or sometimes poly with Mako too depending on mood. 

Miley “Hot Rod” Sullivan is a 24 year old from Junkertown. She’s eccentric and high energy, determined and quick witted, very very skilled in mechanics and machinery. She has severe mental health issues that put her at risk from herself and cause large periods of depression and anxiety. (this stuff is based on my own experiences with mental health issues & not from the web tbh)  When she was 13 or 14 she lost her family and both of her legs in an explosion that also left her homeless. She almost died, and had to cauterize her own legs in order to try not to get infections, it mostly worked. The amputated parts of her legs are messy and awful looking but she doesn’t really care anymore, not like she did when it happened, plus everyone in the outback is at least a little roughed up. ((Another thing is that she can’t have children, radiation sickness fucked that up for her.)) Instead of prosthetics, she built herself a wheelchair & souped it up. It’s her prized and only possession. 

She has firey natural red hair with golden undertones, shaved into a mohawk with dangling "sideburns". [styled like this] On top of her hair, she wears a brown pilots cap that isnt properly fitted to her head, so it's pushed back and her hair  comes out the front and back of the cap. on the cap she has big black goggles that she uses during her mechanical work. these DO fit and she DOES wear them occasionally. She has deep set eyes and her eyes are brown. Her "make up" leaves one wondering, IS that make up, or is that dirt & soot??? the world will never know. She has dark circles because she stays up too long working on projects and hyper fixates on things she wants to do when shes set on a task, she could work on something for 2 days and forget to sleep and eat until she finishes or Mako (or less likely, Jamison) makes her stop. She's very frequently smeared with grease esp on her hands, face, and arms. She wears a denim jacket, littered with patches, studs and safety pins. it's pretty old and belonged to her father and before that her grandfather, who was obsessed with "old" (but not so old to him lmao) punk bands (ramones, the clash, ect) it's kind of falling apart but she stitches it back together when she needs too because its her favorite possession other than her chair. under that she wears a black form fitting crop top. she doesnt wear a bra bc fuck bras and also she has like b cups ("more than a handful is wasted" she tells people who tease her about small boobs.) She wears really short jean shorts  that are black and stitched together with gromets on the sides like a corset and they also have studs on them (these are VERY SHORT! VERY SHORT!! like basically underwear. and probably no underwear bc thats who she is) [reference] and under her jean shorts there is a high-waisted band of fishnet [example]. around her waist she has two bandoleers of bullets for her turret that she wears like a belt. they sit just a little under the top of her shorts. Her legs end about halfway down her thighs and the amputations are naturally scarred. She also has burn scars on other parts of her body, but not very extensively. She also has a few tattoos, [on her left leg above the scars] [on her right wrist] [across her sternum] 

“In game” (offense hero) Her wheelchair is equipped with her primary fire which is a scavenged and repurposed bastion turret. (since she is more mobile, it would not be as powerful or a fast) The turret sets over her shoulder while shes using it and folds back to behind her when not in battle. See [a really old ref i drew] to show this.  >Grenades, simple & basic grenades >speed boost, souped up wheelchair has an engine in the undercarriage and she flips a level to “overclock” it and speed up for a short period of time. >>ultimate: makes her more mobile/faster and powers up her gun, giving it faster speed and higher damage. 

Zed

Zed is my 2nd junker babe! He is a good boy and i would die for him. 

Zed is a mecha fighter from Junkertown.  His full name is Ezekiel, he goes by Zed to his friends, and does not like being called Zeke. He's mixed, mostly black and maori but he doesn't know exactly what else since heritage is hard to track in Junkertown. He's 19 years old and since he was very very young he's been building. His pride and joy is his Mech that he uses in battles. He's a small town hero bc he fights until he literally can't anymore and puts his whole heart into his mech. His father was the reigning mech battle champion for a long time before he died, and he wants to win back the title and keep it in the family. he's never known his mother. He literally built his mech from nothing and has been working on it for years. He changed his mech's name to Manaaki after his father's death. Manaaki basically means protector and to look after someone, which resonated strongly with him as someone that he wanted to become 

[a ref i made on a dress up maker] [a better ref that i doodled]

about his mech: It's shaped pretty much like a large bird that he can climb inside. (it's based on the australian raven) and its painted black with like oil slick. its a junker mech so its not perfect and its in battles so it gets scuffed and dented. it also has patches of metal where its been repaired with scrap paneling.

In Game: (Tank hero) Zed relies on his mech to fight, so if you destroyed it he would go with it, unlike D. Va. The mech is piloted similar to a jaeger from pacific rim, but on a much smaller scale, about the size of D. Va’s meka.  >Primary fire is the rifle on the head of the mech, where the beak would be on a bird.  >Primary ability is flight, it  would work as like a mix between pharah and d va but without as strong as a boost, and when in the air has a passive glide ability like mercy, but this is disrupted when hit or hacked and he must land. >Secondary ability would be shielding himself and teammates with the wings of the mecha, teammates must be close to be  shielded.  >ultimate:  an air strike, in a straight line roughly the range of the "point" square (maybe a little larger) and when he uses his ult you hear a great roaring caw and see the shadow of the mecha over where the drop is

proposed interaction between D. Va and Zed: Zed: D. Va! Yer mechs looking betta than eva! How 'bouta rematch sometime? D. Va:  Sure, If you think you  can keep up this time! (playful laugh)

Vivian

Viv is my brothers fav oc of mine haha other than maybe Sully. She’s a bitch and I love her. I don’t have AS MUCH figured out about her as I do my other characters.

Vivian is a movie star "by day", big fancy life in the limelight, but "by night" she's a talon agent and a spy. The only people who know she's a secret agent are other high ranked Talon agents, and she has infiltrated Helix to gain information from them for Talon, and because of her status as a celebrity she talks to organizations she infiltrates like "hey can we keep this on the downlow bc like i know im a good agent but the paparazzi would have a field day with me if they found out about this, and acting is my first love i cant give it up" she acts like a huge bitch but she is pretty sensitive about a lot of things, she just doesnt let people in. 

[a ref i made from a dress up maker]

In Game: (offense i think) >Primary weapon is a handgun  >Primary ability is “infiltration” that makes it look like shes on the enemy team to that team. >secondary ability “paparazzi” is a flashbang that looks like flashing camera lights and stuns the enemy.  >>ultimate ability is basically a guise that anyone in the effect radius on the enemy team sees their teammates as enemies as well and can deal friendly fire to them. lasts for only a brief period. 

My last oc I just made this week so I haven’t figured out a lot about her, she doesn’t even have a name yet lmao but here’s a copy/paste from my groupchat where i talked about her concept

Support hero. She's based on valentines day/cupid/eros

 she has a bow and arrow, like ana's gun they heal her teammates and damage enemies. her powers are ""divine"" is what she tells everyone but its really technology lmao. it fools no one except gullible people like junkrat

>her primary ability is "true loves kiss" and she blows kisses at her teammates and gives them small amounts of shield (shield that works like doomfist's shield and lucio's soundbarrier) and she can stack this ability >idk what her other ability is, probably a glide or low-air flight  >her ultimate stuns and confuses the enemy, knocking them prone, and gives teammates in her radius a larger amount of shield

shes a gossip and shes petty and she sticks her nose in EVERYONES business and she would try to get people to date each other and theyre like "No" and shes like "but youd be so cuuuuute"

her color scheme is white and pink (& a little red), she's from greece, and she has brown eyes and really long magenta hair