"A Hopeless Dream Chaser"
After being left in my upload folder for a couple of weeks, it is finally time to upload this painting. Although I’m glad it took this long because as I was getting ready to upload I noticed that the cup was a bit wonky in the opening. After fixing that I felt it was a good enough time to add some steam to the cup. After a long while, this time I decided to paint it in an 80s anime style.
Here is the process,
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Today I drew Akemi Homura. Now there is only one more member left from the group that I want to draw. I forgot to draw the soul gem again… Thank you clip studio, I really like your realistic pen.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
Today I decided to draw Sayaka Miki, I believe this is my first time drawing her. Now only two more members to go.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
I recently saw a really cute video of a jealous and pouting red panda who wanted some apple slices. It’s crazy how animated the whole scene looked, like I could seriously see that happen in an anime.
This was mostly done traditionally but I tried to do a shadow underneath the red panda. But didn’t like the way it turned out so I hatched a new one using Clip Studio. The scan also had this weird reflection on the chest so I quickly darkened that section digitally.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
This is will be the background for a drawing I did quite a while ago.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Someone on Deviantart suggested that I drew the rest of the girls from Madoka which I felt was a good idea. That will have a couple of days kinda planned out so that I only have to worry about coming up with composition and pose instead of what I should even draw. Today I drew Sakura Kyoko, I feel she and Sanji would really get along. You know, looking at it now, maybe I should have given her a scowl instead.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
We’ve made it to day 10. Today I drew Madoka. I drew and did the line art traditionally and then inked and hatched with Clip Studio Paint. Doing it digitally I can try out different ideas without having to start all over. The only other way I can think of doing it traditionally would be to buy transparent paper so I can preview how it will look like before I permanently add in ink.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
I liked the design and the curves of the suit of armor that Luffy briefly wears during “Thriller Bark”. Who wouldn’t be happy to wear it.
Hasta mañana,
-NUBE
Really like Iko-chan’s outfit.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
It’s funny, now that my skills have gotten a bit better I have been going back to old art pieces and see what I can do with them now. And in Pixiv there is currently a contest where they want us to upload redo’s of old artwork to showcase one’s growth. Somehow this all came together at the same time. I’ll be uploading some more artwork throughout April.
Working with blues is still a bit tough for me so I want to do some more later this year.
As for this art piece, I edited the line art to change the proportions and angles. Once I had that edited I came up with the background so I could come up with the color theme of 2B.
I felt it would be a shame if I didn’t have a version without her blindfold.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Old version:
I wasn’t too happy with the previous version of this line art I made for Inktober 2022 day 17. Although looking at the reference photo I originally used, I now feel I should have exaggerated the angle and the ratio of the head and hips. Because I didn’t, it doesn’t really look like a down to top viewpoint. It’s just slightly implied. But I’ll play with that idea next time.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Here is the Colored version of my Airi Rescue illustration. I’m uploading two versions. The second version has some static added to it to replicate the quality of a magazine print. One things I like in old anime are the glow effects they do with beams, so I wanted to incorporate that in this illustration. Adding some outer glow to the beam and adding some noise to the glow gave it a cool effect.
I want to convert this drawing to an anime frame at some point. You know, like those mid point frames when the anime had to go to commercials.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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