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Metal Bat ink and copic

Posted by Nube Obscura on July 8, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Chance!, Update. Tagged: バッド, ワンパンマン, Bad, copic, DARKCLOUDXERO, delinquent, dip pen, 金属バット, g pen, ink, Metal Bat, One Punch Man, pen, School uniform, yankii. Leave a comment

I’ve been doing a couple of paintings these last two days but I won’t be showcasing them till a couple of days later. In the meantime I decided to make a simple and quick drawing. At first I was of doing it completely with ink but ended up doing it with a combination of both. Although I’m sure I could have done a lot more interesting effects I wanted to emulate a smooth color coverage.

As for the reference picture I used, surprisingly I came up with the idea of drawing Metal Bat (one of my favorite S rank members) when I was looking through one of my 80s reference folders. I came upon an ad for the Be-Bop Highschool movie poster. If you look at of the actors named Tōru Nakamura, he looks a lot like Metal Bat. I seriously wouldn’t be surprised if he was based off of the actors image in the movie. Which you can look at here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2691/7222/products/12933_abd05aff-36ce-4d72-84be-65e945c0d7da_1024x1024.jpg?v=1584502254

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Luffy Onward

Posted by Nube Obscura on June 23, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Update. Tagged: モンキー・ディー・ルフィ, ワンピース, brush, coat, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, g pen, ink, luffy, Monkey D. Luffy, one piece, pen, pirate. Leave a comment

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

This drawing was originally done for inktober 2019 on day 4. My first main goal was to make an anime painting with hard color changes. When I was done I noticed that it didn’t fit in at all with the texture background I had started. They didn’t fit together at all. So I was a bit disappointed. It looked amazing with a completely white background though. The colors were really vibrant and had really light and dark tones so I wondered what type of background would fit. After I was done painting Elsa in I thought about it for a while and decided to paint the background with Corel. I had absolutely no plan when painting but after just choosing a base color that would fit with Elsa’s color scheme I just started adding color till I eventually ended up with her sitting on a her comfy seat surrounded by some curtains (I believe that’s what they would be called). But Elsa still did not fully fit in with the background. It didn’t look back bad but the lights weren’t interacting with her at all. So I then put a gradient on her to darken the bottom half of her body and putting the layer on multiply.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Little Witch Risako

Posted by Nube Obscura on May 12, 2020

Posted in: ANIME X CARTOON, Artist Project, Chance!, Traditional X Digital, Update. Tagged: anime girl, Berryz Koubou, Berryz工房, candle lit, cheeks, cute girl, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, 菅谷梨沙子, g pen, grimoire, ink, Little Witch, Nube, pen, Risako Sugaya, spellbook, twintails, witch hat. Leave a comment

This was first drawn from inktober 2019 day 3. This time I wanted to do a more simplistic coloring style more in the style of anime. If one uses the right colors it can really pop and look amazing. I really like the way it came out.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

K’ Copic

Posted by Nube Obscura on May 7, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Update. Tagged: ケイ・ダッシュ, copic markers, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, He who surpasses K, ink, K を超えるもの, K', King of Fighters, KOF, maru pen, pen, SNK, The King of Fighters '99. Leave a comment

For todays’s piece I decided to color K’ with Copics, but this time with a background. I really wanted to make a piece with the raining stage in King of Fighters 99. As I was working on it I decided to have some empty spaces so that the piece would look a bit more interesting. The drawing of K’ was originally done for Inktober 2018 day 10. But I didn’t use the same piece. I transferred the original drawing to a new watercolor paper by using my lightbox. As for the background I wanted to give just painting it a try without any lineart. It worked alright but I think I would be able to have a better color selection using watercolors. Copics are cool but they are really limited by the colors one owns and the ink that one has.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

This drawing was done on the 29th day of inktober 2019. I really like Shiho So‘s artwork. I first discovered it when Night Tempo was using it for his cassette releases. With the linework done it was now just a matter of coloring it in. I really like playing around with these bright pastel colors. Although it looked good just painting Misaka, I wanted to make a background for it that fit. After playing around I started to get different ideas like making it like a manga page with panels. Then I thought I would put in a perverse beastly Kuroko ready to attack. And then things started to flow from there. I used Clip Studio for the manga effects like the screentone and effect lines (what were they called again?). Just when I was about to call it finished I decided to write Misakachu with magenta, and luckily it worked out quite well. The painting it self didn’t take too long to do, it was just the small details and ideas that I came up with along the way that added a couple of hours. Still though, overall it was around 5 hours I think. Not bad. Once I have more practice with this style I should be able to work faster. Which I will do at some point since I really like it.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

This was a piece I started last year around June of 2019. I gave up when I couldn’t work out the background. But after doing a couple of pieces using Ranma’s backgrounds for references, I felt more comfortable. There are still areas in the background that can be made better, and the muscles can be defined more with a mixture of hatching and painting but I wanted to give a simple painting style that can be seen in an old anime from the late 80s or 90s. At first was thinking of putting him in a neighborhood but decided to have him walking on a lone road towards South town. I limited myself to three colors for each section of Terry. I could add more details if I added one more color level but I really wanted to see how it would look if I limited myself to just three.

Let’s keep doing our best guys.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Airi Suzuki 80s anime style 02 inked

Posted by Nube Obscura on March 7, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Chance!, Update. Tagged: 80s Anime, Airi Suzuki, ℃-ute, black and white, brush, brush pen, C-ute, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, 鈴木愛理, g pen, hatched, ink, inked, manga, maru pen, pen, personal, traditional. Leave a comment

I drew another ink drawing. I was looking through Sergey Orlov aka punksy‘s artwork and wanted to do another 80s style drawing. I want to paint it with a simple color scheme. But that will be later. I used both the g pen and the maru pen. I really love the thin lines I get from maru pens. The only reason I hadn’t used them for so long was because the ink didn’t flow out of the pen. But after thinning out the ink with water that solved the problem and man am I glad for that. One thing I wanted to try out was this set of Chinese watercolors, but to my surprise it didn’t contain black. After mixing blue, green and yellow I got an okay looking grey but instead I decided to water down the black ink. I quite like the way it worked out and will experiment with it more next time.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Drive Shoot vs Tiger Shoot Hyuga and Tsubasa

Posted by Nube Obscura on March 5, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Chance!, Traditional X Digital, Update. Tagged: Captain Tsubasa, Clip Studio, DARKCLOUDXERO, dip pen, football, futbol, g pen, hatching, ink, Kojiro Hyuga, manga, maru pen, Oozora Tsubasa, pen, soccer, Super Campeones, Traditional X Digital, 大空翼, 日向小次郎. Leave a comment

After working on the Nier piece I remembered how fun it was to draw using ink. I wanted to give the shooting battle between Hyuga’s tiger shot and Tsubasa’s drive shot a try. I drew Hyuga and Tsubasa using my g pen and maru pen then I added the power lines using Clip Studio. It took me a while to come up with the poses. If I were to redo it I would have Tsubasa bend his upper body further forward.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

Drifting Battle Nier vs 2B

Posted by Nube Obscura on March 3, 2020

Posted in: Artist Project, Chance!, Traditional X Digital, Update. Tagged: 2B, 9S, A2, Boar, Clip Studio, DARKCLOUDXERO, Drifting, Emil, g pen, hatching, initial d, ink, Kaine, Nier, Nier Automata, pen, Pod 042, Pod 153, screentone. Leave a comment

I’ve been playing with this idea for quite a while now when I played both Nier games and learned about the drift mechanic. It has also been a while since I have done a traditional piece so finally decided to give it a try. I first drew the boars since that would be the hardest (since I haven’t drawn one before. Once I saw a couple of videos of the boars from each game though it went smoothly. One major mistake was the size of Nier and 2B in terms of the boars (the boars are much bigger). but I decided to go ahead anyway. I knew for sure I wanted to draw Emil, Kaine, 9S and A2 but decided to add Grimoire Weiss and the Pods when I noticed the spaces on the sides. Grimoire Weiss had a lot of details and took quite a bit of effort.

When I had the line art finished, I contemplated what I would do regarding the inking process. I eventually decided on inking, and hatching certain parts and then adding screentone for the shading process. I have Clip Studio but haven’t really used it so I was a bit weary of it, but after playing around with it I got the hang of it. I absolutely love the screentone options. When I was satisfied with the screentones I was finally able to place draw in the sound effects. It wouldn’t be Initial D without it.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

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