Not sure if I will finish it this year or just focus on other paintings. This is a RE:do of a past painting. I should probably focus on some Christmas paintings and artwork.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Snow broken Ice Background
Snowed Mountain background
I was just about to upload the final painting and completely forgot that I had yet to upload the background. Looking at it now, there are areas that I could work on the details but most of it will be covered anyway. Having said that, playing around with shapes and different planes/layers.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Frieren Winter Sky
I finally finished the painting of Frieren. The original drawing was made for last year’s inktober for day 13.
You can see it here:
I decided to change a couple of details not just for Frieren but also for the background since the last time I uploaded it. I just finished it at the time of uploading, so hopefully I won’t regret not giving it some time to rest on my mind.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Snow Mountain Twilight background
This will be the background for next weeks painting, the line art is already up so you can already guess who the subject is. I really wanted to play with the lighting.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Winter in the trade city of Warm
This it the background for a line art I did back in October. I decided to try out a red sun this time. Might play around with the lighting a bit later, but who knows. I do wonder if this port city gets snow at all, seeing as it is called Warm.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Airi Jacket RE:do
It’s about to get even colder where I live so I wanted to paint something to reflect that. Looking at some references I remembered a painting I made back in 2021 that I wanted to eventually get back to and give it another try. So I decided to RE:do my Airi painting of her in a jacket. I also decided to try out a couple of new brushes aside from the sargent brush. I’m glad I did so because some of them fought me less when I was spreading paint and mixing. My plan is to continue practicing until I understand them better. This time around I was also more confident in giving her mitts a try.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Snow Racing Pair
For today’s painting I decided to color a drawing I did for last year’s Inktober. I decided to go for a flat style which fits the era well. I made a few edits to the line art itself. Who knows if I’ll do it, but it would be fun to make the background snow move and make a gif out of this painting.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Winter Lamp Background
I saw this beautiful photo of a lantern lighting up a tree and snow that I wanted to try and paint. Perhaps in the future I might use it as a background but who knows.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE.
Tomoyo Harada ski
It’s finally up. I made some last minute additions to it today. I’m so glad I bought the blu-ray copy of the movie. The quality is amazing. There are so many details that I couldn’t see before on Tomoyo’s outfit. It’s actually a lot more intricate than I thought. I also didn’t notice the Boya print on the gloves. And with the better quality I could zoom into her sunglasses to better define the reflections.
If you haven’t seen “私をスキーに連れてって ” or “Take me out to the snowland” I recommend it. It’s a nice time capsule of the time. Seems like this movie influence many to take up skiing and even now they reference it in advertisement’s. I mainly wanted to see it due to Tomoyo Harada but there are other awesome things such as a nice showcase of Toyota cars racing through the snow and their drivers. I’m pretty sure they must have been an inspiration for the sil-eighty drivers from Initial D. Very fun movie overall even with my limited Japanese.
Oh yeah, this was also a Valentine’s day movie thus the upload date.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Cirno Snowy Steps
Finally I have decided to upload my painting of Cirno on the steps background that I had previously uploaded. I’m really glad that I didn’t upload it right away. There were a couple of things I decided to change not only with Cirno but with the background as well. If you compare the background from this painting to that of the old upload, you’ll see that I have added a blue hue to the snow shadows and also worked on some rough areas over all. As for Cirno, the main area that had me concerned were her ice wings. I had some blue hues that didn’t look right. Now it looks much better.
Strangely enough, I think this might be my first time doing a piece on Cirno despite liking her design.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Snow Mountain Background
This will be the background for a painting that I plan to upload in February. It’s based on a scene from a movie I really like. Playing around with the subtle color changes in the snow and the details and lack of them on the trees was somewhat challenging. I wanted a rough idea to be represented, but at times it just looked like a bunch of scribbles.
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
Goku’s Winter Visit RE:do
Here is the completed painting of Goku and Suno. I wanted to keep it simple but also add some more details. So I tried balancing both ideas as much as possible.
Here is the original painting:
Hasta la proxima,
-NUBE
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