"A Hopeless Dream Chaser"
This has been sitting waiting. Looking at it now I’ve been wanting to do it by just painting without line art. But thinking about it, this was just a practice piece so it’s fine as is. I’ll put some effort on new art instead.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
One of my favorite artists Little Thunder has a very distinctive style. At some point I saw various showcases of her process. I noticed that she used a model various times, that being Serena Motola. Thinking back it’s been years since I’ve wanted to draw or paint her. I can’t believe it took me that long to finally have a go. I went a little too hard on the freckles so it doesn’t look quite right. I made them a little too dark. It’s obvious I have no experience with freckles yet.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I have some other paintings that are not ready yet so I decided to do a study for today’s painting. This time a puddle after a rain storm. I struggled a bit with this one. There are translucent areas but there are also areas that have reflections. On top of that there are a lot of pebbles and other organic branches and leaves. It wasn’t quite working at the beginning but as I kept adding details it all came together.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Here is the line art of Morda. Looking back to the original attempt in 2020, it’s night and day.
Original attempt:
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
I’ve worked with some reflective ground surfaces before, but this time I wanted to do one where you could see the ripples and the reflections. It would be cool to try and paint in the reflection of someone instead of the actual character, well except the shoes.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Today’s drawing is the second iteration of the sword strike rough draft I uploaded previously. This time around I added the outlines of the armor, trying to figure out how it would sit on Guts.
Next update on this piece will be the line art.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
This time around I wanted to play with lighting after deciding to paint a thunderstorm. Looking through Pinterest I found a good gif reference that I could use to learn from.
As I was painting, the colors didn’t really pop out the way I wanted. When I finished I decided to play around with the levels that revealed what I was aiming for. Going for darker colors and more saturation on the blues was what was missing.
Next time I will hopefully be able to do it without having to edit the levels.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Although I am working on some new work, I also want to RE:do some previous attempts with my current skills. Now that I a have caught up to Berserk, I want to draw and paint so many things from the series. But this also means I can work on previous attempts that need some work.
This time I decided to go back to a Morda 2020 inktober drawing.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
It’s strange going back to Corel Painter. One of the things that Corel Painter just can’t do as well as Krita is the blender. But being able to work with only one brush is amazing.
This background will be for a future piece. I wonder if any of you know what scene I’m depicting. I’m currently re-reading the series so I can have a better experience with the newer chapters.
I’m still not too conviced with the clouds so I might retouch them at a later date. Currently I’m working on the subjects, there are a couple of them so it’s taking a while for the rough drafts.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Line art of Iori Yagami. Next comes painting him. I have some of ideas of what I want for the background but, we’ll see.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
An update to the current drawing of Iori that I am working on. Overall this gives more of an idea of what I am going for.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
This year I learned about lightning sprites and found them to be quite pretty and surreal. It also reminds me a lot about Evangelion. Don’t know what I will do with this, perhaps nothing but practice. We’ll see.
Today I was working with the pen and tablet settings and things seem to be working much better now. I should have installed the XP drivers a while ago. Playing with the pressure and opacity seems to be more responsive in the way I have been craving. I’ll have to try out more scenes and subjects. It’s taking me a while but Krita is pretty good. I just have to approach things a bit differently.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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