percival and martín
Added 2020-06-18 04:20:32 +0000 UTCsome rendering practice! it's been a little while since i went for something in this style. it feels nice to do a big piece of my ocs like this!
i wanted to try something a little more painterly, but went about using marker, pencil, and dry gouache style brushes instead of your usual wet-ish digital painting brushes. i think more manual blending is more comfortable to me, rather than brushes that mix and spead the colors on the canvas
fun fact, i've always really enjoyed painting digitally but i got a little turned off from it several years ago by the fact that i would spend a long time on it only to get the same amount of praise (in some cases less) for it as a flat drawing or doodle that look hours less of my time and much less effort. it made me sour on the enjoyment and love i felt for my own pieces. it's a bad way to view art but i grew out of that a few years ago, and just never got around to painting again, at least not much. it's really relaxing tho..
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YEAH it sucks when you pour your heart into something and others don't see it the same! it makes sense in a way, when people kinda brush off my paintings since they followed me for toony art generally. seeing a painting style in comparison just might not be as striking? maybe a bit muddy in places too (i always had problems with contrast, and back then shape clarity was definitely lost on me) but these are all things i could have improved if i had been encouraged OR just sucked it up sooner lol. it's not too late though! i find my ipad is really nice for painting so i'll keep at it for the enjoyment and experience :} thank you so much btw ;; i see a handful of things i would have done differently on this painting after the fact, but for a spur-of-the-moment project, i'm pretty happy with it. i'm most happy with how much fun i had making it!
Pepper
2020-06-20 00:35:56 +0000 UTCOh gosh...I totally feel this about the digital painting process and how it ends up getting a similar amount of praise, if not less, than doodles. This is a super amazing piece though, and you executed it so well!!!
SlipperySqueaks
2020-06-18 21:33:41 +0000 UTC
