ArtBrinc (aka Jennifer Brincho's Art Blog!)

jenniferbrincho 2017-04-28 04:22:26 UTC #21

Can you believe it? I actually finished the mermaid! Normally, something like this takes me a few days--so it was super strange to work on tiny pieces of it over the last five months. At least I finished in time for MerMay!

That water was TOUGH.... Glad it's done now!

Stefanie_Drawinger 2017-04-29 08:43:00 UTC #22

Wow! Your art is amazing!!! I'm getting a classic fantasy book cover vibe from your illustrations and I love how you've rendered the panels for your comic example, it's fantastic. You've got some serious skills, keep up the good work!

cedricgo 2017-04-29 13:23:15 UTC #23

The comic looks cool. I really like the decoration some of the panels have. But now I want to know what happens next!

Also I loooove how the mermaid turned out! I find the way the light shines on the side of her face especially gorgeous. Awesome work!

jenniferbrincho 2017-04-29 16:54:35 UTC #24

@Stefanie_Drawinger Thank you so much I saw your retro sci-fi piece in the art critique section--really cool stuff. Looking forward to seeing what else you create!

@cedricgo Haha, thanks! I'm hoping to continue the comic in my spare time. There's a lot more to that story. Also, glad you like the mermaid! I'm pretty happy with how she turned out...even though she crashed my computer twice.

jenniferbrincho 2017-05-07 00:03:32 UTC #25

MerMay Madness!!!

Stuff from this week, anyway

poppyispainting 2017-05-23 23:34:20 UTC #26

Hello! Wow I love your artwork, you are pretty advanced when it comes to rendering and human anatomy. Your detail is also lovely, especially in the clothing and scales here. I am prone to paint pretty girls myself, they are hard to escape!

I hope you don't mind some feedback, or rather just an observation. There is a certain quality about your faces, it's hard to put a finger on. It might be proportion, or perhaps the rendering, but you have a similar look as my own girls... not quite realistic yet. I think you are more advanced than I am though, for sure.

That being said, I would love to try and improve on faces, and attempt to find that elusive key to truly realistic people. Is it lighting? Proportion? Color? Are you working on this mystery right now perhaps?

jenniferbrincho 2017-05-24 01:50:48 UTC #27

@poppypaizs Thanks for stopping by my blog! Yes, I am still trying to figure out the key to photo-real faces. I'm guessing my anatomy is still off. (I have a terrible time with 3/4 view especially.) Rey is probably the closest to "real" I have gotten yet, but I'm still not very pleased with how she turned out. Good practice, though.

That's probably the key to realism anyway...practice, practice, practice! And lots of good reference

Not a lot of time lately for personal art, especially the realistic kind! But here are the things I did over the last week or so:

And this is a commissioned drawing of a Star Wars RPG character I finished for a follower on Instagram. She's a Mandolorian bounty hunter like Boba Fett...but much prettier

jenniferbrincho 2017-05-24 21:19:22 UTC #28

Kinda random, but here's a thing I did for an alternate history space-suit challenge! I tried to make it look like a Renaissance painting. (It was harder than I thought.)

He's Sir Vasco Cabrillo de Luna, first Spanish explorer to the moon.

zanben 2017-05-25 00:09:58 UTC #29

Lots of cool work, I really like Ashoka as a mermaid. That was a super cool idea! ^_^

jenniferbrincho 2017-05-25 04:17:19 UTC #30

Thanks @zanben! A while ago, I saw Lorna Ka's paintings of mermaid twi'leks...and it made me want to try something like that with a togruta. (Lorna does amazing Star Wars art, btw. Totally check out her work if you haven't seen it before!) It was a toss up to do Shaak Ti or Ahsoka...but Ahsoka won out Thanks for stopping by my blog!

jenniferbrincho 2017-07-08 23:55:30 UTC #31

Wow, it's been a while! Here's some art I've done during the last two months.

Another commission (this was a Father's Day gift for a cool dad in Kansas).

Exploratory art for a pitch that didn't end up happening.

And last be not least, a redraw of an old painting I did a while back. "The Valley of Angel's Tears"

Also, side-by-side with the old version--because why not? I tried to tell more of a story with the newer version and practice some of the techniques I learned in comic class.

cedricgo 2017-07-12 12:50:05 UTC #32

Nice stuff! I love ''The Valley of Angel's Tears''. I mean it's a bit sad when you think about it, but it looks gorgeous.

jenniferbrincho 2017-12-03 21:35:03 UTC #33

Been a while again! Haven’t had much time for digital art outside of work, but here’s something I was able to finish this weekend. Feel free to critique! (I think the anatomy is a bit off. I have trouble with active/dynamic poses, so this was definitely a learning exercise.)