The second of the Christmas drawings I have inked in the countdown to Christmas. In a lot of ways, Hina’s wishes have been getting granted right before graduation huh? Good thing she decided to show her true self more.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Marisa Christmas Magic Lineart
One of the drawings I did in the countdown to Christmas this year. Who knows if I will be able to finish the painting process in time. Has been a while since I last did a Toho drawing, specially of Marisa. Didn’t have much of a plan so I just sketched and this is what came out.
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
Otona na no yo Saki Shimizu
I wanted to once again give the 90s anime aesthetic another try today. I painted Saki using Photoshop and the background with Corel Painter. For the texture that makes it look like it’s being shown in an old tv I used the Photoshop filter (I believe it was noise) which gave me just the right textured I wanted. I could have gotten away with it if I had muted the colors a bit more but this works even better.
Saki’s outfit and dance moves are quite amazing in this pv. I wonder if she would ever consider doing a solo career? I’m just glad she is still active online though, I really enjoy seeing her Kendama progress.
The original drawing was done for inktober 2020 day 13: https://darkcloudxero.com/2020/10/13/inktober-2020-13-saki-shimizu/
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Fat Punk
@franco_esca @lamolechida
Estaba viendo el episodio “Los Amos del Universo.- Análisis profundo sobre las elecciones….nah se crean!” y Franco y la Mole segun van a hacerse DJs con el nombre de Fat Punk. No tuve tiempo de pintarlos como DJs hace un mes pero en mi tiempo libre este fin de semana porfin lo pude hacer. No se si a ustedes tambien les pasa, pero cuando oigo la cansion de “Get Lucky” suena como que estan cantando Mexican Lucky. Ahora Fat Punk puede hacer esa cancion una realidad.
Los cazcos se pueden comprar y hacerles unas pequenas modificaciones. El Cazco de La Mole es un cazco de American Football con dos pedazos de vidrio reflectivo que se puede poner con clips en los mismos alambres protectores del cazco. El cazco de Franco es nadamas un tema de color del vidrio ya que el cazco de moto en forma de Batman ya existe.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Watamote Friends
I once again wanted to try a simpler anime style using various layers of multiply layers. I really like the way it came out. Here’s a group shot of the main group currently.
Original drawing can be found here: https://darkcloudxero.com/2020/10/10/inktober-2020-10-hope/
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Coat in the winter
A quick painting today.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Simone de Beauvoir Nier Automata
I finally got around to painting Simone from Nier Automata. It was much easier than I thought it would be, although it did take me about two days and change. Could have finished it yesterday but decided to take a break and start fresh today. All that was left to paint were the accessories corpses which were easy to do with a couple of steps but since the amount of them is 5 and a section of a sixth one, it did eat up a bit of time.
All the painting was done using Corel Painter although I did do a silhouette painting of Simone with Photoshop so that I wouldn’t have to worry about getting out of the lines. This really does increase the speed at which I can just paint and add details without worry of having to erase later. Although that method does also take a bit of time. Using the bucket tool would speed up the silhouette process a good bit but some of my linework has open areas. Though I guess I could make a copy of the linework layer and close them off using a digital brush. I’ll try that out on my next piece.
When I did finish painting, I used PhotohShop to play around with the values and saturation. First I decided to remove the line work from the curtains. Then playing around with the Layer Blending mode I moved the layer containing my line art from multiply to screen and it brightened the whole painting up in a very vibrant way. I really love the way the colors jump out. I should probably experiment more with the other Layer Blending modes.
Will you accept Simone’s invitation to dance?
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
Shishio Makoto Kaguzuchi
I wanted to have a bit more of an anime painting style this time. When I was done, I wanted it to look a bit more textured. So I ended up using a rough paper overlay. I ended up using both Corel Painter and Photoshop. While looking through the Rurouni Kenshin anime, there was a scene where Shishio’s eyes are glowing purple (episode 60). Just for the heck of it I wanted to give it a try and it just fit so well that I decided to keep it that way.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Momoko Tsugunaga twin tails
This drawing was started back in October 27 when I got some new lead that was 2h I believe. Now that I had some time to look at it again, I made some changes and inked it. I really feel that the ink and changes I made, created a much better drawing that looked more like Momoko.
Reference used was from Momoko’s last photobook Momochi.
Next time I want to try out the pencil with watercolors, but I think in this case ink was the way to go. Momochi looks so cute with twintails.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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