Haha, yes, it looks a mess, doesn't it? This is the underpainting stage still, if I were to complete it, I'd enlarge the painting again and go back over the fur with a small hard brush to detail the individual hairs, LOL.

Well, it was supposed to be an experiment in finally putting what I learned from this tutorial [link] to good use. But it'll take a while, haha

Working on this now:



This post has been edited by DragonReine: Nov 7 2012, 09:24 PM

Hands are a favourite thing of mine to paint. And ears. I love ears. I dunno why XD

On armour, it's a question of how you shade, especially for metallic armor. There needs to be a sharp transition from midtone to highlight, so the highlight has to be really bright and the midtone closer to the shadow in tone. Somethere like, in grayscale, will be Brightness 90% for the highlight, Brightness 40% for the midtone, and Brightness 20% for the shadow.

Lines-wise, it's best to keep to sharp, geometric shapes and angles. The artificial quality of metal armour means that the shapes are even.

My friend used templates from this page:

http://buttonmakers.net/button_design_help.htm

(Assuming that you're talking about button aka round badges, that is)

This post has been edited by DragonReine: Nov 13 2012, 01:29 AM

SO TRUE.

*GENZOMAN creates awesome art with the Bamboo.

Try this for size:

"UNDERSTANDING ANATOMY: part I" by =FOERVRAENGD

There's links to the other parts of the tutorial in the artist's descriptio

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Also, for FireFryXx, the Vincent Valentine portrait is finished:

"Love is eternal as long as it lasts" by *DragonReine

That IS a tutorial for comic (anime/cartoon) and realistic art. Anatomy rules for both styles are the same, unless you are going for highly stylised work

Really, really wanna cry now. This is NOT FINISHED.

Yes, thanks. Shading is off on the lower jaw

Can't change the shoulder width (was half a head wider but client wants him to be more slender) but thanks for the arm tip, try to correct the best I can.

Comic Fiesta shenanigans led to this monstrosity:

Thank you! Yep, that was my work! Were you there when I was drawing, or did you just happen to see the art by itself?

This post has been edited by DragonReine: Dec 26 2012, 01:09 AM

Hehe, I love dragons and dragon motifs. I even have a tribal dragon tattoo.

Duh, obviously permanent. Otherwise why bother mentioning it?

Process? What do you want to know :-)

KNIFE?! LOL no, except for some REALLY traditional style tattoos, or for scarification tattooing. Modern day tattooists don't do that, it's very unsafe and unhygienic if you don't know what you're doing

In brief, tattoos are made by inserting drops of pigment/ink beneath the epidermis, or the outer layer of skin. Tattooists use a kind of instrument that rapidly taps the tips of fine needles onto your skin to insert the ink. Rather like a handheld dot matrix printer head, except it works with liquid ink instead of a print ribbon, lol.

This post has been edited by DragonReine: Dec 31 2012, 09:03 AM

Eight hours total. It's a fairly large tribal tattoo, so extra time was given for careful inking to make sure the pigment is really strong and dark, otherwise it won't look good.

Black Cat Tattoos. It's in that Asian/anime quarter at sunway pyramid. Last time I visited was when my sister had her tattoo done a year ago, not sure if the shop is still there, but they're good guys, plenty of business.

Oh, some newcomers, hi!



This post has been edited by DragonReine: Feb 18 2013, 12:42 AM

So long since I posted anything here. Been busy

Furry?