Slowly working on inking/colouring an old sketch. I’m REALLY liking this brush! Lookit that line variation! It feels a lot like using a nib pen but it’s Photoshop! It’s one of Kyle’s brushes, the Ultimate Oil Detail Brush 30px. I can tell that when I sketched this picture I had been planning to ink with a nib because I have a lot of short lines. XD Well, at least until I have to do Sherlock’s jaw/neck.
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Sherlock. I had an old sketch kicking around and I wanted to test out a new brush so tadaaa have a Sherlock Holmes! I loved Benedict’s curls in this show. Did I love the show itself? Parts of it. And thaaaaat’s why fandom exists!
Pfft. I messed up the scheduling of this and it looks like it had posted a midnight. -_- Reblogging for evening crowd!
Sherlock. I had an old sketch kicking around and I wanted to test out a new brush so tadaaa have a Sherlock Holmes! I loved Benedict’s curls in this show. Did I love the show itself? Parts of it. And thaaaaat’s why fandom exists!
Just slapping some colour around. I’m not sure I’ll be able to get posts out this week because I’ve decided to tackle an ambitious painting! It’s for @mystrade-valentines, so it won’t get posted until February, but I’m starting early to make sure it is done on time.
Here’s a teeny little progress shot of a painting that appears in the background of my painting. Meta much?
The shot on the left is my initial flat colour. I’ve been finding it helpful when I begin a painting to lay down rough chunks of colour approximating the figures/layouts/clothes etc. It’s been helping me check proportions and because it’s just quickly slapped down colour I don’t feel married to it should I have to make big changes.
The shot on the right is just over half-way done. Honestly, a quarter of the painting will be covered up so I don’t know why I bothered painting the whole thing?
I’m using a screen cap for reference for the background and the figure is a combination of photos for reference.
First off, thank you to everyone who has liked or reblogged my art this year! I started in April and posted twice a week, every week, until sometime this fall! In 2017 I created more fanart than I had done in the ten years prior! So, thank you, for encouraging me to keep going.
I couldn’t possibly include all of the art I created this year in my summary so I picked twelve of my favourite, non-sketch Hobbit pieces (and it was hard to pick!):
01. Captain of the Erebor Ravens 02. thorin_dramatic_pose.psd 03. Bilbo of Erebor 04. Flower Crown 05. Treat or Treat! 06. Bilbo’s had enough of your nonsense 07. Grump 08. Mirkwood’s #1 Trainer 09. Teeny Tiny Thorin Comics 10. What if Hobbits were potato people? 11. Gifts from a Dwarven King 12. Train Them With Love
I’m not 100% sure what I’ll be doing for 2018 or in what fandom(s). The Hobbit was a lot of fun but my takes on the characters/subject matter didn’t seem to resonate with very many people. Or maybe there aren’t a lot of people who like AUs in The Hobbit fandom? (Considering 90% of what I create is AU… Haha Imma never stop!) Or… maybe I just need to up my art game which is totally valid! I found that after a few weeks of producing work I quickly settled into an ‘art rut’ that I never managed to break out of.
I’ll figure it out eventually but in the meantime I think I’ll be concentrating on learning new art techniques, experimenting more, and maybe posting less ‘finished’ works and more of my art struggles and sketches in 2018.
Thank you, again. I feel so accomplished and satisfied this year! I almost feel like I am a creative person, again.
Year in review template from yorunaka on Deviant Art. According to Google. XD
Sneak peek at a Red Hood fan art I’m working on.
I draw what I want.
This is the first Moosefrog I ever drew. It was on the whiteboard in my little area of the office. XD
Teeny Tiny Requests!
Sloooowly making progress on the next Teeny Tiny Thorin comic. If my brain could please stop hurting that’d be super, thx. (Headaches/migraines are the bane of my existence!)
Do you have any teeny tiny Thorin requests?! Maybe teeny tiny Bilbo? At this point, I’m just trying to get some practice in on the scale of teeny tiny characters but my brain is preventing me from coming up with any doodle ideas.
Teeny Tiny Black Sails?! :O
Drop me an ask with your teeny tiny request and I’ll see what I can do! :D
Things I don’t miss about doing comics? Backgrounds. XD Even with a reference it’s hard!
PAINTING IS HARD! Especially when you don’t use line art. Boots and legs are starting to take shape. I’m slowly working my way up the body because I know the face is going to have me tearing my hair out.
Painting all on one layer, again, like a n00b. But it’s sort of working for me to think of my layer as my canvas just like if I were painting IRL.
ALTSnugglebugs.
