Can’t believe I’ve had this drawing waiting since July. Whenever I get the chance to paint it, I will go for a flat style.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Minako Honda Aurex Inked
Minako Honda Aurex Line Art
I didn’t quite like the feel of the original rough draft so I decided to just redo the whole drawing and changed a lot of the proportions.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro Lagging and a possible Fix
Why is my pen lagging on my XP-Pen Artist 24 Pro?
Quick answer for those who don’t want to read, disconnect anything on the USB ports that are on the XP-Pen tablet (The one’s on top of all the other cable ports).
So for a couple of weeks I’ve had to work with a sluggish/lagging tablet. And let me tell you, if recording my process was already slowing me down. This was so much worse. I didn’t know what was going on but I powered through it. But this week I decided to finally try and fix it. All my drivers were up to date, so were Windows updates. Re-installing the XP-Pen driver and art programs also didn’t help. I even went and bought some more ram sticks after closing as many internet tabs but seeing no change. The ram also didn’t help. Then I figured it would be a virus perhaps. So I erased everything on my hard drive and reinstalled Windows.
Now with a clean install it should work now right? No. It was still lagging. I even changed the canvas size but that didn’t help. Heck, even just testing the pen input was making it lag. Changing any settings within the art programs that were giving other artist problems was also a no go.
Feeling like I would just have to get used to it, I remembered that a couple of weeks ago I added my keyboard and mouse to the USB ports on the XP-Pen. In theory (I thought) they are only going through a passthrough so it shouldn’t affect the tablet. But at this point I just had to try anything. And much to my surprise, that’s what it was. Being able to paint with no lag was amazing.
I’m pretty sure I ‘m sending all data through the USB C cable, so either the port on the motherboard or the cable itself is not able to move the needed bandwidth thus the lagging issues. So if you have tried everything else and are still seeing lag issues try this possible fix.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Momochi visor
This time I opted to cover up my line art with colors that correspond to each section of the painting. I like it. This will be something I should just do from now on. I specially liked how I could blend better because of it. This was a great advantage when I was working with Momochi’s eyes and lips.
I’ve been quite busy lately with other things so I haven’t been drawing or painting as much. Hopefully I can get in the flow again soon. On another note, I noticed that Pixiv restarted my weekly upload combo. I guess it resets after the new year. Had I known that I would have taken note of it. But I guess if I do an uninterrupted combo this year I should be able to beat last years personal record.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Momochi visor line art Re-do
There are so many drawings that I have left unfinished. This is one of them. The original line art had messy and thick lines that I had to fix. So I just went ahead and redid the whole line art using Clip Studio. There are a few additions and modifications. Next comes the painting process.
Speaking of painting, I feel like there are so many painting that I can redo now. But maybe I will wait it out till I have more skills…
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Kojiro vs Nezuko Soccer Battle
This is the painted version of the ink drawing I did a couple of days ago.
It can be seen here: https://darkcloudxero.com/2021/03/10/kojiro-vs-nezuko-soccer-battle-ink/
I had finished a prior version yesterday but decided to give it another look over this morning. I then started playing with the lighting and the background colors. Eventually I started adding textures which eventually reminded me of using Clip Studios burst functions to compliment the ink ones I had drawn beforehand. I then used the hardmix blending mode for my texture layer which gave it some interesting lighting effects that made the the shooting duel pop out that much more.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Marin and Gojo’s Valentines
Valentines Day will be here in 9 days, so I want to make some paintings to commemorate the day. We’ll start with a set of paintings of Marin and Gojo going on a cosplay shopping [secret date] orchestrated by Marin of course.
I sort of had the main idea right from the start of how I wanted the set of paintings to look. Mainly that I wanted to make three. As I was working on the second one I decided to try out a second facial expression for Marin and that would eventually be used to make the second part of the three part set of paintings. It was done entirely in Photoshop except for the sparkle effects on the third painting, that was done using Clip Studio.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Best Smile DarkCloudXERO entry
Yesterday night I learned about the Clip Studio contest, with the theme “The Best Smile”. I only had a couple of hours to work on it today since I had some obligations I had to take care of so I didn’t really have any real plans and just started painting. Although not required I decided to use Clip Studio Paint and was amazed at how good it felt to use their oil paint option. I think I may actually like it more than Corel Painter since the oil paint size is controlled by the pen pressure. I’ll have to play around with it more.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
XERO Graduation
It took a while… but I finally completed my degree. Which is why I decided to make a quick piece to commemorate the occasion.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Sebun Keeping at it
A quick drawing today.
You know, it’s a shame that Seven was pretty much forgotten after she was introduced. I really enjoyed the addition of her character and I would even go on to say she is my favorite character. They could have done some interesting stories with her and Legoshi but I guess things just end up that way sometimes.
For this drawing I wanted to convey a melancholic scene but one of hope since despite Seven’s hardships she didn’t give up and continued to move forward. I drew and inked this drawing traditionally and then added the hatching and screentone using Clip Studio.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Shy cat Miyabi
During this year’s Halloween, Miyabi cosplayed in different costumes. One of them was of a cute cat girl. For one of the photos she uploaded she had a really embarrassed and shy face that caught my attention and I wanted to try and draw/paint it. Looking at several clips of Miyabi it seems she has had various occasions like these where her shyness shows through. I really think that’s one of her charm points.
Photos of Miyabi in her cat cosplay: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHAxrICht-M/
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Chavo del Ocho Barril is Unbreakable Colored
This one was drawn way back in 2018, and I finally decided to go ahead and paint it.
Here is the original inked drawing: https://darkcloudxero.com/2018/09/15/chavo-del-8-barril-is-unbreakable/
I went for a color pallet that fit in with Diamond is Unbreakable’s. Once I had the layer base down I started playing around with shadows using the multiply tool. Looking at the anime I decided t add some aura around Chavo and Quico as well as their stands Doña Florinda and El Chapulin Colorado. From there I played around with the outer glow and used the linear burn option. On top of that, I placed a new layer to add some white coloration to emphasize where energy was going to be at it’s highest. I’m glad I waited two years to paint it.
That it for now.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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