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the amount of doodles I did during film crunch instead of locking in on animation is actually embarrassing um. whatever. (scarab flying sfx)
Nice to meet you, fellow nintama fan <3 May I ask, who's your favorite character? If you can give ones for different grades it'd be cool!
nice 2 meet you too!!! tomesaburou is my number one chew toy. mutual on twitter described him as a himbo and I laughed out loud but it is kind of funny he comes off as so princely and charming and then he does anything in this show and he’s always tweaking out a little. real as fuck. I’ve been rewatching the series again recently and hes honestly kind of all over the place sometimes when it comes to characterization but I like that he’s not as clean cut as the rest of the sixth years sometimes idk… head scratch. I think I just relate to the feeling of like clumsiness about how you feel and your relationships with people you know and like. wanting to constantly catch up to people you look up (siblings) and constantly trying to work towards that goal and even like. how even his weaker presence next to the other sixth years translates into that, like feeling like you’re still lagging being your peers somehow? or that they’re somehow more emotionally realized than you. I think that insecurity explains a bit of his ego and it’s also. real as fuck for a fifteen year old LMFAOOO and even now! shoubu da, tomesaburou!
moe point lightning round. amako soubei described him as “manly and handsome, but stupid” in one of her fan gatherings and it’s so fucking funny to me. he’s literally a betta fish. his whimsyful older brother dynamic with his committee. the way his voice goes all high pitched whenever he’s like EHHHHHH or just generally bewildered. him and monjirou’s joint inability to sit still. his homoerotic relationship with his roommate. his homoerotic relationship with his rival. that one time in the season 23 genkin episode where senzou lost his temper and he points at himself confused and is like is it my fault??? ☹️ him in his pajamas. his side profile. his one cm monjirou height difference. any shot where he’s practicing with his weapon #sakuga. his bulwark insistency on running the etiquette committee his own fighting way during the chairman swap arc (epic failure). that one shot of him as a little kid and he’s stuffing his face with rice. when he leaves his underclassmen with isaku and senzou curses him out and there’s like a ghostly phantom of tomesaburou peace signing in the sky like he’s in a dead wife flashback. im normal
for each grade umm. something like kingo, saburouji, magohei, takiyashamaru, hachizaemon, and. you know. LMFAO um im trying to get back on my groove post film crunch but for someone that always jokes about how there’s a dedicated episode cut for every character you like regardless of who they are I have not been keeping up with characters beyond the sixth years a lot. trust. trust. I will have more things to say about this rotation soon. dattebayo
just wanna drop by and say that i just saw ur art for the first time today while i was mindlessly scrolling on here and OH MY GOD!!!!! instant art inspiration already, ur stuff is breathtaking!!! the depth, the composition, the poses, the colors!!!!!! thanks sm for sharing ur work im so incredibly in love with it !!!! 💝💝💝
Randy your asks!!!! sorry I just saw this! thank you so much for the kind words ^^” im glad my random doodles can connect with someone so strongly it really means a lot :”D
down the fragrantica rabbit hole
made new blog for reblog stuff oogity boogity. @bloqbustervideo hop on
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this week nintama rantarou took me out back punched me in the chest repeatedly for ten minutes straight and left me to bleed out in the snow. send tweet
this week nintama rantarou took me out back punched me in the chest repeatedly for ten minutes straight and left me to bleed out in the snow. send tweet
i want to try and get out of my own neuroses sometimes and just draw things i like because i like drawing them... lol but the frustration of not being able to create anything that feels like it has that special something gets to me sometimes. i think the best thing to think about is just measuring my own progress versus how i did in the past and acknowledge both my shortcomings and the efforts I put in to try and get to where I want to be....orz. sparkle on be yourself. or something
oogh. imminent film deadline art imposter syndrome crashout. ogh
oogh. imminent film deadline art imposter syndrome crashout. ogh
SILKSONG
went to go check my archive because surely the amount of rkrn stuff I've drawn makes it the more common tag under this tumblr but surprisingly nothing will beat the quarantine induced neurosis that is all the splatoon manga fanart i drew like five years ago
ALSO getting sleep omg 😭😭😭 #tweaking
most of my entire brand is being the terminally online guy and the caffeine guy but literally being forced to get off the internet during film crunch and weaning off coffee has put me in a way better mood and im not even joking. dattebayo
most of my entire brand is being the terminally online guy and the caffeine guy but literally being forced to get off the internet during film crunch and weaning off coffee has put me in a way better mood and im not even joking. dattebayo
every time i think im having another crash out i just talk to another artist and suddenly everything seems so beautiful. #happy
two drawing logs in a day. whatever. what the hell. sure
HIIII what brushes do u use……
HI ANON sorry for the ridiculously late reply 🙇!!
left: My favorite pen type brush for sketching/inking are the emilyamiao procreate brushes. they have a bit of texture and a nice flow so theyre great for stabbing out ideas. wet inky is a bit flat in shape and its better for inking imo.
right: painting brush used here is the default procreate brush eaglehawk, under the drawing section, and the lineart brush is fountain pen ❤️ (quote unquote) from I believe jingsketched's brush set??? the variation in line weight is nice but its a little what i would call "gritty" so it doesn't flow as well.
recently also very based and syruppilled. another procreate default brush under inking! lots of line variation, a triangular-ish shape, and no anti-aliasing. also good for painting LOL
left: 6b pencil (procreate default brush, under sketching) is great for sketching/lining depending on the feel and if you tilt ur pen to the side it makes a nice big grainy smudge which I like to use to indicate form shadow sometimes. i also made a modified version (see above) with the count turned way up and the scatter turned down iirc. if i remember later ill reblog with a brushpack file or something XD
right: vine charcoal 3 and 4 from kyles dry media set in photoshop. 3 is kinda blotchier and i mostly rlly use it for effect. 4 is this kind of soft triangular/rhomboidal brush that i use for quick sketches sometimes
TBHH it depends a lot on the style/feel of the drawing im going for/just the general mood so there's a few drawings where I probably just whipped something out of a random brushpack LMFAO but I tend to prefer flowier/harder brushes with a bit of size variation/jitter and an imperfectly round shape! ymmv.
actually since my dunmesh post breached 8k notes (!?) recently i have a confession to make that i completely bashed out marcille's dress from memory and in retrospect its totally not correct at all. mea culpa
basically
to the ones that encouraged me
i looooooooove your darkest dungeon art sm. the colours are so!!! pretty!!! welcome to the trenches!
EEEK thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
save me rarepair with only like two dedicated people who make stuff for it that haven't been active in over five years...save me...
doing this really cool thing in darkest dungeon lately called forgetting to check any of my character's stats before embarking
HADES 2
Yoooo I have no clue for what you draw fanart for but your artstyle is sick as hell!! It's so nice!!!
HI omg sorry 4 being the world's latest responder ever...thank you so much!!
how do you get your colors to look so nice and your lineart so red and vibrant? i love it
omg anon thank you!! 😭 im going 2 be honest I am Not Great with color theory... but i like having my sketch pages look cohesive to me...
BUCKLE UP this is going to need a readmore bc i like talking.
I always sketch in neon colors it's a habit i picked up from an old teacher but I'll think of a color usually on a whim and draw with that. and then if i want to draw something else ill pick another color that i think goes well with the page. usually most of my color schemes r analogous (colors right next to each other on the wheel)
yanked this from recent dunmesh post; i kept most of my colors within the pink/red/orange range.
i wouldn't recommend doing everything in monochrome or analogous palettes though because it's sort of a guilty crutch of mine XD.
sometimes when im coloring ill change the layer mode of the sketch. color burn gets you either very very bright or very very deep colors depending on the color of the flats underneath. multiply and linear burn do the same thing but they're a lot tamer and generally always return darker colors. im sure there's some technical bits behind this though. ill either color my lineart afterward to compliment the color of the flats, leave it as is, or mess with layer modes if i feel like it. my favorite trick is color burn + linear burn + some combination of two lineart layers and just fiddling until i get a nice burn effect.
mithrun was done with crimson red on color burn.
coloring... like 999% of this is relative color which is like. kind of the idea that colors look different when placed next to each other. if you eyeball it a bit it's pretty noticeable.
what i used to do a bit ago was i would fill in the area i wanted to color with one big mask of color, make a new layer that has a clipping mask down to the flat layer of color, and then draw my actual flat colors. the color of the mask helped me pick my flat colors bc if I picked a color i think stood out too much next to the mask i could kind of just adjust it until it looked a little more cohesive.
old ish drawing next 2 a canon reference. i ignore local color a lot...mea culpa....but my overall color palette here was a light pink, so the shirt here is actually a desaturated pink? or violet i believe. if you shift sort of that purple color far enough into the gray area of your color wheel it can take on a blueish or even greenish hue. it being next to a lot of warm pinks/fuschias helps.
a neat thing that kind of helps is that if you desaturate or saturate certain colors they can kind of take on a certain hue? not sure if this makes sense. sort of how orange here turns tealish blue the grayer it gets. so if im drawing something that's predominantly orange and i have a blue color i can just take an orange color and desaturate it until i get a color that sort of looks like blue. and that way it kind of looks more harmonious? at least to me XD
shading. i don't apply serious lighting to a lot of my drawings, but a helpful bit is that the shadows tend to be the opposite of whatever color the lighting is? i try to think first about the "mood" or the main color i want to go for in the drawing and then i pick a shadow color opposite of that. so for here, i wanted the lighting to be a coolish magenta so the shadows r lime green. if there's anything off i fiddle around until i get something i like. the shadows on the skin here were too green initially so i shifted them a little more orange.
there's a "band" of color going on between the transition of the shadows to the light. generally this could be for a lot of reasons and i tend to use it differently (core shadow? overexposure? etc etc). but this is a color post so ill try not to go too off track.
but generally digital doesn't "mix" colors the same way traditional colors do if you use RGB (cmyk is a bit better with this but is kind of a pain to get used to), so to make blending a little less muddy, i sometimes add an intermediate color to smooth things out a little. for example, mixing digitally blue n yellow tends to get you gray, but generally, blue + yellow makes green, so if im making a blue->yellow transition ill slap some green color in the middle so it flows a little better.
I do a lot more cel shading nowadays. if you've been on here for a while earlier this year i have another style of coloring but it's not really accurate to how shadows really work so i wouldn't recommend looking at it. it's mostly to add zest and texture to the underlying flat colors.
coloring your lineart does a TON to helping your colors look vibrant, though its like the garnish on a dish to me (same with shadows). i think it's good to try and play with your flat colors and try to make sure those look in order first before adding flourishes. usually ill leave it a dark, saturated color that again matches my overall palette but sometimes i go in and color them by alpha locking my lineart layer and picking a color that matches the flat colors underneath? not sure how to explain it properly.
i used a darkish purple for shuro's ponytail to match the dull red of the flat colors (more relative color! trying to simulate a black/brown while keeping the pink palette there) but a lighter crimson for laios's blond. the light was this super intense like blush pink so i thought it might be cool to add this neon salmon red in the areas of that light to really give off that vibe of a very bright intense rim light.
sometimes you could also tweak with gradient maps or color balance, which adjusts hue based on how light or dark a color is. these r fun to mess with as a final touch but i need to watch using them because they can become crutches real fast XD but those are also just tools to help you. in the end just developing a good sense of how color works and how you want to use it is the best place to start.
LONGASS ramble but yeah. tldr just kind of train ur eye for color and look at what you like best. which is unhelpful and a little sucky but it really is just observation and practice and maybe some personal zest.
happy drawing!
WE GO OC MODE 🦇🦇🦇🦇
yippee!!!
being really fixated on characters you cannot draw for the life of you is a double edged sword it’s like improvement bootcamp
it's cause you're always using that damn isometric grid