Here is the process of a future painting.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Tag: one piece
Dragon Ball Bunnies
I went for an 80s anime painting style this time. Doing simple colors can really pop, I need to practice in more simplistic coloring styles. I have a couple of artists that I can learn from. As for this specific drawing, I want to try painting it in my style as well. That will be a future project.
The original drawing was done for Inktober 2021 day 29. I remember that I really wanted to emphasize the more round designs that Toriyama used to use back in the days, a style that much prefer. The painting really helped emphasize the curves which I love.
Still annoyed that Lunch has been forgotten.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Inktober 2021 Day 29
Wow, we’re already three days away from Halloween… well this one is pretty much over so two. For today’s drawing I chose Bulma and Lunch. It’s a real shame that Lunch was neglected and forgotten after the end of the original Dragon Ball. She seriously deserved better.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Zoro Santoryu
The painted version of my Zoro drawing which can be seen here:
I was just playing around with colors in the background till I arrived with the current background. I think it fits the current Wano arc. I’m really coming to love the Sargent Brush in Corel Painter.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Yamato
This is the painted version of the line art I drew before. It can be seen here:
I quite like her multicolored hair. I wasn’t too sure about the background so I made a simple swirling cloud patterns.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Yamato line art
I really like the introduction of Yamato. The last chapter I read was when she was introduced, I really have to get back to it. I’m really hoping she becomes part of the straw hat crew.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Zoro Santoryu Line Art
I’m surprised I haven’t drawn Zoro before. Specially since he is my favorite One Piece character. Although to be fair, One Piece has so many good characters to choose from.
References used:
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Sanji God of Cookery
Today I decided to paint Sanji who I drew for day 22 of Inktober this year.
Here it is: https://darkcloudxero.com/2020/10/22/inktober-2020-22-chef-sanji-god-of-cookery/
Seriously, if you guys haven’t seen the movie the God of Cookery do give it a try. Somehow I feel Sanji would definitely fit into that world as a martial arts chef. It’s a shame that we only had about two decades of good Hong Kong movies that gave us a glimpse of what anime could look like in real life (although Stephen Chow continued to do so well into the 2000s).
Once again I decided to go for an anime painting style, the challenge this time being that I would not look at references for the coloring style. For the next planned painting I also wish to imitate a 90s anime look but I haven’t quite settled on which style yet. I might just end up doing more than one, we’ll see.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Inktober 2020 22 Chef Sanji God of Cookery
Sanji came to mind as soon as I saw that the prompt was Chef. I wasn’t too sure how I would go about it, but I remembered the movie The God of Cookery by Stephen Chow. If you haven’t seen it, give it a try.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Ranma beach onepiece anime
The painting of Ranma was solely based on a photo of Harumi Inoue.
Here’s the link.
Rumiko Takahashi had a very distintive way of drawing her female characters and making them look petite and cute. The proportions are actually amazing really.
For this painting I decided to make it more 80s anime style.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Luffy Onward
Just to change it up a bit let’s draw a guy this time, and let’s try a new angle (as advised by my younger brother). For this drawing I decided try out a new technique I saw a couple of years ago. This I believe is what they call foreshortening. It worked amazingly well so that I could draw out Luffy’s arm and finger pointing at us. When I finished drawing I then shaded the drawing by using ink and brush. Now Luffy is ready to move forward and become the king of the pirates.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Revisiting the One Piece Map of 2015
Back in 2015 I worked on a One Piece Map. And although I liked how it turned out, it was too big for me to scan it with my scanner. This led me to capture it with a camera. The problem was that I couldn’t get it quite squared and since it was buckling all over the place, it would still give me problems even if I did square it. At the time I wasn’t too good with Photoshop so I just did a quick fix, but it wasn’t that convincing.
Here is the new edited version:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/45050729932/in/dateposted-public/
I don’t know why, but I’ve always like the old map aesthetics.
Here are the original posts that contains the original process:
And here is the process of the new digital process:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/45099649821/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/44188906005/in/dateposted-public/
I used the puppet transform to fix the buckling that didn’t allow the map to be stretched into the edges.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/45099649591/in/dateposted-public/
After doing that, I had to make sure the edges all had the same length. But this means that there is going to be empty areas which I have to fix.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/31226305868/in/dateposted-public/
I used the old gold background to fill in the empty spaces.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/45099649421/in/dateposted-public/
After that I fixed some mistakes where the ink ran out a bit too much, I believe when I gave it a coffee wash. After that I had to fix the edges so that they meshed well.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/44379542064/in/dateposted-public/
One thing that bugged me was the size and placement of the ONE PIECE text on the right corner. So I enlarged the ONE and then moved all the text a little to the right.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/30162002517/in/dateposted-public/
That left empty spaces and obvious seems so I had to fix that. First I duplicated the One Piece banner on the bottom layer.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/30162002467/in/dateposted-public/
Then I had to go over it with the brush tool to get rid of the seams.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/31226309108/in/dateposted-public/
And this is without the fixes.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/44188911995/in/dateposted-public/
And with.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/darkcloudxero/44188913615/in/dateposted-public/
And that’s that.
I have some new artwork I did this year, but I thought I would try and update some old artwork along the way now that I have a bit more skill in editing. Though to be fair, back in the day I wanted to do it all traditional so I guess I was apprehensive about editing things digitally.
In any case.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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