alright todays WIP
i think im done with the knight and a beer crate mightve missed something so if you have some thoughts say them
i dont mind coming back to him
i still think he kinda lacks sharpness
and i added a small detail that no one probably will notice
i tried to spell goblin brew but i dont think you can write it on such small of a scale
Also, I finally got a pen for my tablet, so I can retire my XP-Pen tablet to “home PC only” duty.
So maybe talk about peripherals and pens might be in order but not today
Starting Painting Process of Trump, hopefully I will get it done for Memorial day, I been using Mad Mag, and caricatures I found online, I found out tho that MAD uses a very thin ink line on the outside, I tried to capture that and the way they do skin tones, I probably could push more oranges and reds but I actually like the results I am getting here, hair was extremely difficult for me and I kinda took cowards way out and avoided details, I also struggle with hands, I really hate hands, especially here, I redrawn and repainted hands over and over quite few times, and even now I am disappointed with them but my eyes are hurting and my dog wants his daily dose of attention, so I am calling it here for now, I will try to make way more progress tomorrow.
and i added a small detail that no one probably will notice View attachment 9044622
i tried to spell goblin brew but i dont think you can write it on such small of a scale
I think you could try to make a bottle bigger, write "Goblin Brew" on it then shrink it down, but even then I don't know if it will really read well at scale down version, It might not even be necessary to do all that anyways. Just throwing idea out there.
Also, I finally got a pen for my tablet, so I can retire my XP-Pen tablet to “home PC only” duty. View attachment 9044646View attachment 9044648
So maybe talk about peripherals and pens might be in order but not today
I used to own Wacom tablet like that long time ago, like 2012 era time, I hated drawing on it, I prefer to draw on screen, has it feels extremely disconnected to me. Still cool it has button on side, I really like that idea.
I was wondering about digital shading making it look clean. I normally draw with pen which Im super comfortable with but then I go virtual and the shading is fucked.
I mean to make it look nice like how it should, like real or something. My brush overlaps my drawing and it always looks like shit. I'm drawing from scratch. I do not care about style, but anything but cell shaded. If you could give advice, I've been struggle with this for years and cell shaded slop is the only way I've seen to do shading.
I mean to make it look nice like how it should, like real or something. My brush overlaps my drawing and it always looks like shit. I'm drawing from scratch. I do not care about style, but anything but cell shaded. If you could give advice, I've been struggle with this for years and cell shaded slop is the only way I've seen to do shading.
No offense but you can't paint if you don't care about style. Painting is about making decisions. It sounds like you're saying you want it to be photorealistic, but you say you aren't using reference?
If your problem is that your brush overlaps, you can try using the lasso tool. I'm using Clip Studio Paint but this is done using a standard lasso + airbrush in every drawing program - apply the lasso tool wherever you want a hard edge, then use the airbrush to create soft edges inside it. Not exactly nice to look at but it took me about 2 minutes.
I think this guy is a clickbaiting faggot but he shows off how to use the lasso pretty well in this video.
Most artists don't recommend you learn this way because it results in uniform/boring texture and is kinda clunky. You would do better just painting with a round brush. Start with the biggest shapes, then gradually decrease the size of your brush to work it into smaller shapes.
If you genuinely want to learn how it works, these two videos by Sinix cover how most digital painters do things. Yes he starts you off with 'cel-shaded slop' in the beginner video, then shows how to progress to a painterly style from there.
I'm talking about the furries that use cell shade their entire drawing time and never learn anything. Everybody learns it when they are beginner but then learn like blending or whatever.
Also thanks btw.
I think it could use some more finishing touches, but happy about outcome, I did few things to Trump face to make it pop out bit more, I added readish orange around checks and his chin thing, I also add extra high light, I did use lines to help separate things, I think I went over board with American theme, but 250th is very important milestone for us has a country to meet and wanna it to be in for front, I also tried to keep things more simplified to not compete with for Trump has main focus. I also tried to tie in memorial day to this, and I think that was bad Idea in retrospective, I am probably going to remove that and add in Kiwi Farms logo or something has an easter egg, or maybe founding fathers names on it I am unsure.
