This is the rough draft for the beach background. I haven’t done a Ranma piece in a while hence the choice.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Ranma Leaning in Pose Rough Draft
Serena Motola Study Line Art
For today’s drawing it’s Serena Motola’s line art. Now drawing looks more refined and the freckles definitely looks better when I thinned the lines and made them lighter as well. I think for sure I want to try a flat painting style for this one. I’ll try to focus more on the color scheme.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Beach waves and sparkles background
I’ve been slacking a bit… Kinda hard to concentrate with everything that is going on…
This will be the background to a future piece that I hope to finish soon. I’ll upload the line art for it next week. As for this background I wanted to work with the shallow part of the beach which will include the way things look underwater. It was definitely a bit tough to get the idea, but I think I have it mostly there. Perhaps I’ll change things in the upcoming days but in the end the subject will be the focus so who knows how that will change things, or not.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Guts Sword Strike Line Art
The armor has so many parts that it takes a while to figure it out depending on the angle and pose. It might not be a wrong idea to buy a pose-able figure. I know that Guts’ hair is a bit shorter but I wanted it to be flowing as he was ready to slash.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Frieren Different Angle Attempt
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
Serena Motola Study Rough Draft
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
Puddle Background
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
Morda Laying on her Broom Line Art
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
Ground Rain Drops Background
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
Guts Sword Strike Rough Draft 2
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
Thunderstorm
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
Morda Laying on her Broom Rough Draft
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
