I made a pictures



Maybe WrA Rav. Iunno. :v (Mostly since I didn't draw her scars here, and Sents Rav has black hair atm.) Think I'm starting to get the hang of the coloring process, but I'm not comfortable yet to start doing commission-type work with it. Still very much in a experimental stage for me.

( And a WIP )

Working on various things at the moment, including putting my website back up. Exciting times! But, here's a WIP.



Critique on the anatomy would be awesome since something's still bothering about the lower half of her face. D: But, I'm currently trying out a different method of painting here, which I'm enjoying a lot so far.

Back at home and stuff. Need to start drawing again. 'Cept my hands are dumb and cold.

But! I finally got around to completing this Improvement Meme that I've been wanting to do since... two weeks ago. :x Get ready for a blast to the past!

( TIME TRAVELING BACK TO 2003 )

Found this meme over at wow_fanart

1. Take the name of a character of yours and find out what it means. http://www.behindthename.com/
2. Go to http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/search.sets and type in the meaning of the name.
3. Draw your character in the second outfit that comes up. (If something that isn't clothes comes up, skip to the third.)

Picked out Amara for this. What came out of it was a ridiculous outfit that was just too good to not doodle up. 8D

By contrast from the V of Cups, the third card has been the fastest thus far.

Preview:



( Oh, the wicked deeds we plan... )

I have no idea why, but I can't stop listening to this song.



Process is going a lot more quicker. Mostly because I've thrown the whole lineless thing out the window. (And have furthermore decided to stick with the sketch) I think I'm having way more fun than I should painting an evil bastard. :v I also still need to decide on how the other four blades/swords will look. Vissic needs another evil/creepy blade. I remember coming across one in Model Viewer but I can't find it for the life of me. Arrr.

Been looking at/listening to a lot of Silent Hill stuff lately, so it a way... I think it's contributing a bit to the coloring at least. 8D

( The other one isn't so great and is thus hidden under a cut )

Time to work on a new card.



Still playing around with the background on this. Needs more dead bodies (because shoulder armor covered up where the armor was going to be originally. Go fig.) Also need to decide if I want to do anything decorative and special with the blades he's holding.

Mostly planned out at this point, but probably needs to undergo a few more tweeks.

(I do like how his face came out though. :> )

I think I finally have all the random doodles out of my system now.

Everytime I draw Ravine, I feel like I'm getting one step closer to actually being able to draw her as I envision her in my head. This is... hands down the closest I've gotten.

Wanted to draw a dead person, but... yeah. I'll try again later.

Something like 30 minutes in Painter. Was considering using this for a post on my WoW RP blog, but I have since decided to scrap the post altogether. :|
From left to right: Ravine, Amara, and Veshara.

Character head study for the next tarot card I'm doing. Vissic, you magnificent bastard you.

( Larger version under the cut )

Two fanarts:


This is actually a week old. Oops.
Anyways, wooh Vyse! (done in paintchat with charmwitch and friends!) I am rusty in the ways of oekaki-type applets.

(This reminds me that I need to work on playing Valkyria Chronicles again.)

( This one is bigger. And 10x more messy. inc childhood nostalgia )

A quickie! (And by quickie, I mean this took about two days.)



Late birthday gift for a friend on my RP server. :> Textures from http://princess-of-shadows.deviantart.com/ (although that set isn't there anymore oddly... Hm.)

After about two weeks--progress!



Finished up those damn glass bottles sitting in the back. Now, I'm having a conundrum with those two goblets in the back, and where to put them. :| I'll be toning down the brightness on them so they're not such of an eyesore, as well as other assorted things. And then, I can finally work on the character! (Which will... actually not take that long. Unless fingers give me a hard time.)


And one more.



Quickie 30 min speed paint in Painter, followed by color tweeks + filters in Photoshop! It has a nitty-gritty quality that I like. Didn't expect the snow to come out all bright like that, but heeeey. Contrast!

Also may or may not be based on recent RP. I do that a lot nowdays.

Two quick ones before going to bed. Both were done in my sketchbook with copics and white paint. :> Also a mechanical pencil.



Rav in her current RP wear. Also sporting a really large,fuzzy cloak. It's really freaking cold in the Storm Peaks, y'know. This one actually feels like this was done with watercolors, which is pretty awesome to me.




Scheen! Picture is blurry and kind of sucks. :| Also I have no idea how I managed to salvage this. because there were like a million things wrong with it as I went through the coloring process. Also used some multiliners to define some lineage going on. Practice practice practice!

EDIT: Better picutre has been uploaded

Since I'm pretty sure most people are sick of my WIP paintings at this point... D:



Yuyu, my super old RO priestess from like... seven or eight years ago. Before I get questions from some people, she was an acolyte/priestess when I used to play her on the Chaos server. I wouldn't consider her and Lilith as the same person, since one would much rather heal you, while the other would probably cut your throat. 8D

Went down nostalgia lane when I came across a site I used to frequent back in my RO playing days. Their old oekaki was spammed up to hell, but it looks like a few months ago, the site admin went and wiped everything clean, and installed a new board.

I haven't used an oekaki applet in about two years. It's safe to say that, holy shit, those applets sure have evolved since the last time I used them!

(Doesn't stop me from being lazy though. 8D)




More stuff! Almost done with the background, and then I can FINALLY WORK ON THE CHARACTER. :D I'm actually looking forward to it.

So far, largely pleased with how this is coming out--save for one thing.

Somewhere along the way, my composition ended up changing. I say this, because there's actually supposed to be a bar table behind the character. But it got turned into the wall behind her. Uh... oops. The main thing is that I actually like how it is, but that means I don't have a place at the moment to place the two cups that are supposed to be standing. :x

I'm thinking about maybe putting a shelf up behind her, but I dunno. I kind of don't want to mess with the background.

Arrrgh. Maybe I'll sleep on it.

(And probably work on the fallen goblets more. I'm pretty pleased with the perspective. But if it looks off in some form of fashion, someone let me knoooow.)

This one is going to take awhile to finish. I can feel it in my bones. Background is.... probably 25% done. :| So many things that I need to add to it still.

I'm actually on the fence with using the texture on the stones. I actually started hi-res this time (in 300DPI, unlike the IX of Pentacles where I was working in only 100DPI), so I can actually -do- detailed work. The wood textures are currently placeholders, as I'll be painting in the wood paneling in the background. (I already started on it if you look at the top horizontal bar. :x)

I'm trying something a liiittle bit different in my coloring technique. (I had a chance of starting fresh after a Painter crash destroyed the original file I was working on.) Taking a few tips from blackeri in her painting tutorial, so I remain hopeful! There's supposed to be something at the bottom, but I haven't put it in yet. Most (if not all) of the elements should be together in some shape or form on the next update. :D