Dec '16

Nice stuff in here! I really like the girl with the horns!

If I could give on small crit it would be on your second image in the first post. The way the arm in the foreground is connecting to the torso looks a little weird. And I also feel like the middle of his chest would be more to our left because of foreshortening.

Hope that helps :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

Dec '16

Photo study ~2h30
Reference
I sometime picked colors from the photo or lowered the opacity over my painting to see if everything was matching. I hope to no use that anymore in the future ^^


Critique and advice are welcome!

10 days later

Jan '17

Drawing " La madame corne branche" as a stress reliver.

She's somewhat my mascot that's why I choosed this pseudo instead of "Shiroka" which has less meaning than the corne branche's concept it self.

Corne branche are not dear nor satryre. They are emotional spirits living in the wild imagination of any being and they nourish themselves out of idea, experience of life, knowlege and emotions. They are mute, their only way to understand the world is emotions which lead them to be naïve and childlike for a long period of time.
By being in a state of satisfation and hapiness for a long periode of time, they may blow wonderful flower with a unique fragance.
They can be brave sometimes and starting to fight their fear and negative emotion by themselves.
Mine likes to hang lanterns on her branches ... it represents friendship.

26 days later

Feb '17

Coloring "La madame corne branche" from a sketch I made weeks ago.

23 days later

Mar '17

STUDIES
Lazy study ... I was only interested into coloring, playing with texture
and replicating colors so I traced over the image. It was somwhat fun
to do but I wish to do it again, this time by doing the whole process by
my own.
Ref : https://fr.pinterest.com/pin/343540277810904256/

another study. I tried to get the color right and I played a bit with edge control and level of rendering ^^
Ref : https://fr.pinterest.com/pin/533184043369338057/

I really enjoy making studies but ... I wanted to experiement a little
bit more with painting techniques. Here is Martins, one of my OC in his
"demon/god" form.
I decided to play around colors and I tryed to contrast a little bit more arround soft/hard edge ~~

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Mar '17

Hiya! Loving your latest studies so far [: And the La madame corne branche piece is coming along nicely. If you want to experiment more with edge definition, I suggest you try to play around with the smudge & mixer brush tool in photoshop, they will give you really cool and unexpected results, especially the mixer brush tool.

Here are some tutorials to introduce the tools a bit:

Smudge tool tutorial:

Blending with the Photoshop Smudge Tool

Mixer brush tutorial:

Photoshop - Using the Mixer Brush

This tutorial covers blending/painting in general, that might also be useful to you. Other tutorials by this artist, Ahmed Aldoori, are worth checking out btw.

How to blend colors!
Mar '17

Oh thank you so much for this really helpful advice! I'll try to adapt this to sai ^^
Yeah unfortunatly I am part of the ones that can't runs photoshop without laging due to an unpowerful computer

1 month later

Apr '17

Slowly ... my soul is fading into SILENCE.
I wish I was heard, I wish I was understood.
But how could you know ?
No words comes out of my mouth.
So I let myself enter into the darkness of my thoughts wondering :
"Would it be the same as be for one day ? "
2hrs sketch reliver
I wish I was more active thb ... but school- you know

1 month later

May '17

Just a stress reliver doodle.

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Hopefuly, summer holidays are coming, I will have no excuse to practice! This artblog definitly need more activity (me just trying to motivate myself ahah)

May '17

WIP ... thank you pintesrest to made me drawn into shaman-ish face and body paiting.
Feedback are welcome! As long as it's in progress I can make some drastic changes (under a reasonable limit)