This will be the background for next weeks painting, the line art is already up so you can already guess who the subject is. I really wanted to play with the lighting.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Snow Mountain Twilight background
Kana Arima Cat Sweater Line Art
There’s a couple of new brushes I downloaded for Clip Studio which of course included pens. There is one that emulates translucent ink which I wanted to try out. It’s pretty realistic. I like it.
Now that I’ve done the line art, I cleaned up the lines and finalized sections that I was still planning out. The next step is figuring out how I want to paint it.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Winter in the trade city of Warm
This it the background for a line art I did back in October. I decided to try out a red sun this time. Might play around with the lighting a bit later, but who knows. I do wonder if this port city gets snow at all, seeing as it is called Warm.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Leaning Makima rough draft
This will be a future painting of Makima.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Airi Jacket RE:do
It’s about to get even colder where I live so I wanted to paint something to reflect that. Looking at some references I remembered a painting I made back in 2021 that I wanted to eventually get back to and give it another try. So I decided to RE:do my Airi painting of her in a jacket. I also decided to try out a couple of new brushes aside from the sargent brush. I’m glad I did so because some of them fought me less when I was spreading paint and mixing. My plan is to continue practicing until I understand them better. This time around I was also more confident in giving her mitts a try.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Kana Arima Cat Sweater Rough Draft
It still looks a bit rough, but hopefully it will take form when I finalize the lines. I have decided to just do the rough draft traditionally and then do the line art digitally so as to not waste time redoing the line art more than once.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Snow Racing Pair
For today’s painting I decided to color a drawing I did for last year’s Inktober. I decided to go for a flat style which fits the era well. I made a few edits to the line art itself. Who knows if I’ll do it, but it would be fun to make the background snow move and make a gif out of this painting.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Winter Lamp Background
I saw this beautiful photo of a lantern lighting up a tree and snow that I wanted to try and paint. Perhaps in the future I might use it as a background but who knows.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Happy New Year 2025 Tamales
I was thinking of what I should have done as my first art piece of the year. I was looking at some references from Oboro Muramasa and when I saw the food paintings I decided to do just that. In our household we make tamales for Christmas and New Years, usually accompanied with an egg and a coffee. I tried going off memory.
Things don’t look too promising but hopefully this isn’t too bad. Hope you guys have a good one.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Final Drawing of 2024
Today is the final day of 2024. This year sucked and the coming years don’t seem very promising. But despite that I hope me and my family can overcome what ever comes our way.
Drawing is just a quick sketch that I then finished with Clip Studio. Hope I can put more effort on future art, we’ll see. I’m also planning to draw something for the first day of the year, but I guess that depends on how I feel.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Sayumi Ski Goggles rough draft
In focusing on painting and trying to understand color I started neglecting form and proportions. So it’s time I go back to basics and start drawing again. I’ve notice I find it much easier and natural to do so traditionally. I’ve been feeling a bit off so hopefully I can get back in the groove soon.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Eye Test
I seem to be a little burnt out so today is just a practice painting of an eye that I found online.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
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