Divinity (Hi-Res)

A painting for mythaw / Sparkfloof of FA! When the figure is more divine  than the heavens themselves, sometimes you just gotta have a mutual  pose session.

A really fun one for Sentri! Love this big bird,  and a pleasure to get involved with some flexing with him. Still trying  to be better with some of my values, and think I'm getting a little  closer to what I want. Very pleased with the results in areas like the  thighs and in the torso. I think I'm still not handling things the best  in bright areas like those boulder shoulders -- I definitely redid that  area a few times, pushing and pulling, as it didn't come easy at first.

Thank  you again to Sentri for not only trusting me with your big guy, but  also being so kind as to let Deriaz tag along in a smaller role~ Enjoy,  ya'll!

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big man big man big mansss

Bit slower rolling than I would have liked for October so far but I'm still doing my best. Trying to get over some of the perfectionism still, and reducing steps in my process -- most notable here is no grayscale before laying down flat color, and then trying to let textures create patterns that people can fill in themselves when they look at the image. That's most notable in the stairs and clouds, as I didn't yet trust myself with doing it within the figures, minus on Deriaz's dumb long feet because... look not many people are going to look there, there's so much other stuff to appreciate going on.

I did find myself getting way too up close at times and really hammering out things, especially in the chest and legs. While it came out really really well, I wasted more time than I'd like to admit because of it. Those parts were probably something like 5 hours of back and forth on their own. Which, I mean, I like how it looks, but I can't keep slipping into that. Nasty habit I need to break.

Goolashe has been starting his second week of internship at the new job. Things are still a bit iffy here, but hopefully by end of week we will have a more accurate number of how much we have to work with, and can adjust from there. I'm still gonna be trying to barrel forward as much as I can, of course, but I think once I'm not feeling like I have to have part of myself in every problem at home, and can focus more on me and just the art, the perfectionism will die down a bit. I know I tend to ramp up on it when I'm stressed, even though it's a bit paradoxical.

Regardless, enjoy some big men! With more thanks to Sentri once again. c: A good, fun, comfort zone piece, just handsome characters showing off their hard work. Thank you all for your help and support. I will be back again soon, I hope, with more to show! All of my love. Stay safe out there.