Sketchbook Villainy

Villainy101 2018-12-19 06:01:33 UTC #1

Longtime Brunet fan and super lurker from when Cubebrush as an organization was just in it's infancy. I go by Sol, or Villainy as my instagram says. I am a traditionally trained artist with mostly self-taught digital mannerisms. I have gone to art school with a split focus of illustration/and 3D for Games and Animation. I currently work in the restaurant industry though.

I'll be attempting to post my stuff here just as often as I post on my instagram. Lets art.

Villainy101 2018-12-19 06:02:36 UTC #2

Character concept sketch. WIP stage 1

cedricgo 2018-12-19 17:00:07 UTC #3

Hello @Villainy101!

Nice sketches! I like the poses of the first two in particular. Just watch out for some of the proportions, like the right arm of the first one. Her forearm looks really long while her upper arm looks really short. But those are just sketches so it should be easy to correct at this stage.

Can't wait to see what you'll do with them

Villainy101 2018-12-21 05:52:22 UTC #4

Yeah, I did notice the arm issue and I've pulled more reference (can never have enough reference) to explore different ways to portray what I am attempting. I'll post my explorations up sometime later today or earlier tomorrow. Thank you for stopping by and dropping a critique. I'll never turn one down.

Villainy101 2018-12-21 23:59:24 UTC #5

Working on that right arm issue. I think it is a foreshortening hurdle that I am trying to leap over. Any assistance? I also did a google search for 'pulling on glove' reference but no such luck. Closer results come from buttoning cuffs but nothing quite like it.

Villainy101 2018-12-22 03:10:27 UTC #6

Got some assistance from rkdvanguard (You can find him at tumblr if you like) on the event happening with the arm. The assistance came in the form of a multicolored draw over with some good talking points.

Shoulders and Head were not 1/3 spacing.
Elbows could use the 'L' check. (Triangle Check*)

So I applied what our short conversation yielded and this is my second iteration of corrections at this stage.

Villainy101 2018-12-28 18:23:13 UTC #7

Here is a spread of possible hairstyles I put up. The character concept is cyber-fantasy (Cyberpunk with fantastical elements i.e; Elves). So I used some references for the hair and will be continuing to study a couple in rounds to get the right feel. This is a personal project so there is no deadline on it hence the large iterative process.

Villainy101 2018-12-31 20:01:07 UTC #8

I ran a strawpoll in two discord groups and the results of those votes/critiques made hairstyle number 10 the choice of the people. But after putting the same image into a facebook group meant for critiques from other artists 3 was the popular vote with the advice to combine the spiky randomness of 2, with the volume of 3 and the asymmetry of 7. So my next studies will reflect these two design choices and from there I will make another decision. Or pose it to the masses.

Villainy101 2018-12-31 22:52:25 UTC #9

I added the two winners to the mannequin for contextual information.

Villainy101 2019-01-03 04:07:31 UTC #10

Villainy101 2019-02-01 03:52:31 UTC #11

So after spending a lot of time at work I figured that I wasn't satisfied with how my Hoshiko exploration turned out. The process was good and entertaining but ultimately it wasn't where I wanted to end. So, I started again. This time I put together a mood board and listed the important aspects atm about her.

Young Adult.
Drow
Rebellious/Punk
Asian street fashion influenced

Villainy101 2019-02-01 03:53:26 UTC #12

Villainy101 2019-07-31 21:16:45 UTC #13

Started another character design. This character is a personal one that will be used in an upcoming Dungeons and Dragon's Stream. It is a female Dwarf who has sustained a full body acid burn on her right side. For all the nerds out there, I will be playing a Gloomstalker Ranger.

Villainy101 2020-03-19 19:26:26 UTC #14

I haven't abandoned this place, but now that essentially I have no job I have basically huge swaths of time on my hands. I will be taking advantage of this and all the new people looking for outlets for their time by doing more artwork without the limiting factor of "I have work to do in the morning" or whatever I told myself that limited me in my time recreationally. I'm starting on two projects. One digital and one traditional. The digital piece will be a humanoid figure, character design. I did a random word draw and I received : Warrior, Dark, Tall, & Gun. We'll see how that plays out.

Traditionally I am working on a small canvas that I found with an unfinished portrait on it. There was a small hole so I patched it up with some gesso and masking tape. Crossing my fingers that it holds but I am not too worried otherwise. The subject I don't know just yet but I have been really motivated or moved rather by blue and white. In the styling of like fine china or porcelain. I also am still in love with Art Nouvue a la Mucha, so I will probably try to spit out something that is Mucha inspired traditionally.

Villainy101 2020-03-19 19:33:24 UTC #15

Here is an unrelated project that I completed since my last posting of the Dwarf with the burned face.

Villainy101 2020-03-19 19:59:06 UTC #16

Villainy101 2020-03-24 09:19:27 UTC #17

This quarantine is really whooping my butt. Can't sleep and I am pretty stressed out.

Villainy101 2020-03-24 14:39:26 UTC #18

Warmups 5 - 8 minutes each.

Villainy101 2020-03-24 17:14:10 UTC #19

So this is the digital project I am working on. In my previous text update I said I completed a random word draw for a character design. "Warrior, Dark, Tall, & Gun" This is what I've come up with so far. I'm feeling cyberpunkish and I really wanted to try out photobashing with draw/paintover to see how I could incorporate that into my workflow to speed up the ideation process. I'm pleasantly surprised how I had an idea then that idea evolved as I thought about the character's role in like a Cyberpunk setting. I'll probably talk more about the story element of this character in my next update.

An image without a story is just a doodle without a heart. Lines without purpose.

Villainy101 2020-03-26 05:02:10 UTC #20

I started watching Naruto and Boruto so I'm doing the weeb shit and sketching some unnamed OCs in Kishimoto's universe. I'm a fan, what can I say? These are messy but the story I feel is there. I am weak with the left one, stronger with the middle and uncoordinated with the right one. Need to study clothing and clasping hands more. I'll probably pull Orien back up to work on tomorrow morning after some busy work during this quarantine.