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zinetober day 12....
I got the first karlach romance scene which was SOOO adorable but also. where there's a will there's a way
I have a feeling that beneath the little halo on your noble head There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed You fascinate me so
You Fascinate Me So, Blossom Dearie
I said previous post that the ‘Single Pale Rose’ board was “an adventure for me.” This is a euphemism for saying that it was important to me and I stressed about it. When that happens, I usually step away from the computer and do a lot more thinking on paper. Paper, especially scrap paper and post-its, is less ‘precious’ than the computer file that I turn in and makes me feel less self conscious about trying stuff out.
I have a lot of paper scraps from this episode.
Note: The final episode version of Pink’s reveal was drawn by Rebecca! :)
I made a comic about every comment thread under any content involving a fat person existing. Ever. This counts as my inktober #1 because I spent way more time on it than I should have.
Hey! Your underground temple is absolutely stunning!!! I was wondering if you have any process pics of it? I would love to see your workflow :)
Hello and sorry for the late reply !
I did this design during my summer internship last year, andi was under the supervision of @vnzzz who taught me the steps to follow inorder to understand background design. I’ll try to explain those steps and my personalprocess through this thread.
1. Early stages : Thumbnailing andsketching
Here are a chunk of the sketches i did to begin with :
My first sketches (not shown here) were way too focused on details, and mysupervisor brought me back to the essentials : getting a strongsilouhette, making a clear statement. The key word being : concept. Myidea was an underground forgotten temple, trapped within a huge structure, akinto huge sewers mixed with industrial elements. The goal was then to design theplace like i would with a character : trying to find a good shape andsilouhette, a clear one, that quickly translate your idea to the viewer. Atthis point there is a lot of brainstorming to do, and refining your concept byasking yourself a lot of questions :
-How did this place came to life ?–Who lives there ? –What kind of time period is it ?
2.3D model
Once i had made enough research to figureout the global design of the scene, i made a 3d model in google sketchup. Ithelped me to figure out the global proportions of the place and have a betterunderstanding of its volume. This is a free and very simple software that irecommend a lot ! The other great advantage of 3d in this case is that youcan place your camera anywhere you’d like and generate a simple linework out ofit. This method is used in production work because it allows layout andbackground artists to start with a good volume and perspective basis. Fromthere, they’ll use a design reference and complete the linework.
3.Roughing things out
After choosing an interesting view of thetemple, i started to add the main structural elements. It was a process ofgoing back and forth with my supervisor who provided a lot of advices andcorrections that i applied the best i could to the design. Going through manyiterations, the temple started to take form. One of the important task was toadd details without loosing the sense of structure and silhouette. It isimportant to establish good scale relationships between the elements in orderto keep it coherent.
This brings me to the next point :
4.REFERENCES
This is probably one of the most criticalpoint of drawing in my opinion. Ourimagination is fairly grounded in reality. It is really hard for us to imaginesomething completely from scratch, especially in the fields of drawing andcreative work. If you want to draw something which is believable, be it acharacter or background, you’ll need to understand it well. The references thencome into play. Internet gives the artists of today a tremendous amount ofinformations and photographies about a huge range of topics, that artists fromthe past couldn’t even dream of, and it would be a waste not to take advantageof it !
In my opinion, understanding is key, andmore important than copying. While using references, a good thing is to analysewhat you are seeing, deconstruct the information in order to re-use it at wishwhen you need it.
Here are just some examples of references ipicked up for this design :
The sewers of Tokyo : This was a hugediscovery for me ! I had no idea that this kind of structure existed and iwas amazed by its sheer gigantism ! And it also was a perfect fit to whatkind of ambiance i was looking for!
A LOT of temple, shrines and eastern asia architecturereferences ! I needed to know and understand what i was seeing, how thoseroofs would assemble, what shape would the pillars be, what kind of materialsand details would compose this kind of architecture and so on…
Some industrial and mecanical references aswell for the pipes and ruins around !
5.Cleaning and coloring
While using references, i went on tocleaning. When designing a background, i don’t think you need to have a perfectlinework as long as everything reads well and clearly. At this stage it ismostly refining everything, adding details. A good thing is to have differentline thickness for the foreground and background, details and global shapes. Itbuilds hierarchy and make different planes differenciate better from eachother.
I added simple colors areas in order tomake the different elements of the design stand out. It doesn’t relate to thereal colors, they are merely informative.
Once i finished everything, i decided to bringit to life with color, and then compositing and 3d, but this would deserve a different thread !
6.Last words and ressources :
I hope you enjoyed this thread and that it’llbe of any help !
Go check the blogs of my supervisors andcolleagues during my internship, they do RAD backgrounds :
Vnzzz
Yann Legall
Thomas Romain and his perspective tipswich are a must-have ! They are very clear and useful !
Concerning resources, i would recommend (ifyou haven’t already) getting a pinterest account with loads of boards.
Also check https://www.textures.com it is basically aimed for 3d texturing, but there is a lot of variety in shapes and forms whichcan be useful when looking for references.
There also is THIS reddit called the « safefor work porn network » Despite its strange name, this reddit has thousands and thousandspictures about many different topics. You can spend hours gathering referencesthere.
As a conclusion, i would say go anddraw, draw a lot, and draw some more, keep practicing, analysing, referencing,designing and having fun !
Have a nice day !
wah! last upload didnt work.
Anyway heres a silly vid. sometimes i like to do improv with myself on audacity. its fun.
hey heres a vid i made because i was very bored
Some of my boards from Sleep Spells!! This is one of my favorite episodes!
1) Giving Eclipsa cute 1920s-inspires sleepwear was priority number one
2) I ended up boarding two different versions of Star and Eclipsa’s talk. The other one was more time efficient and honestly this one is longer than I’d like it to be, but … they have tea.
3) It is my understanding that @zachsleepshere really likes that “sword hand dance” joke.
4) I really like God-mode Star
5) I JUST REALIZED I accidentally drew Eclipsa with the wrong cheek marks! That’s not a spoiler, it’s just a mistake (I usually just leave the cheek marks off entirely so I sometimes get the lesser-used ones mixed up)
My Loopdeloop submission for the theme GRAVITY Pizza Delivery for the Physicist!
I just adore all of your loops holymolyyyy so good
ONE til SIX from Richard Chhoa on Vimeo.
Loop de loop submission for the theme SIX Realised I have a total of 6 submissions for loop de loop so this was the idea I had for this challenge.
Music: Emily Szyszka soundcloud.com/emilyszyszka
when you don’t do a warm up and go straight into lineart and your hand does the thing
Thats a sign of inflammation of the wrist called carpel tunnel . I had surgery because it got so bad I couldn’t draw anymore.
Yikes D8. That’s why it’s so important to do stretches and draw with your whole arm (ok, arguably hard with a tablet versus a big gorgeous easel) and etc but I forgot today bc I am a moron and it was great
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people warm up to draw? like… how?
not an artists but climbing hand and lower arm exercises;
trying to find more and better diagrams for other stretches but yeah it’s super important if your gonna be using your arms a lot.
Adding this important video for all the artists out there, take care of your hands ♥
i was pretty much knocked out of commission and spent months recovering (and still am!!) from pushing myself last year and not taking proper care of my arm. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES!!!!!!
Head rotation tips - recorded a demo for my upcoming Intro to 2D Animation Tutorial Package. I talk about flipping, tracking techniques and utilizing arcs to maintain solid drawing.
Enamel Pins by Northern Spells on Etsy
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The Net Neutrality issue summarized
You (or your parents) pay approx $40-$100 or higher for internet.
So that you can all use youtube, google, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. etc. etc. This isn’t limited to social media.
Net neutrality says, “Okay, since you already paid x amount of money for the month, you don’t have to pay for each asset individually. Enjoy your internet.” NO net neutrality means that your service provider (comcast, at&t, verizon, whatever it may be) gets to say “ACTUALLY, it lines our pockets so give us an extra $5.99 for Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. Oh, but that doesn’t include Tumblr; that comes with our premium package. That’ll be $5.99 on its own as well. Now about your Google docs and email…
That’s why it’s important. That’s why I’m spamming Net Neutrality crap. If you’re using the internet, it’s YOUR problem.
-Email your congressman (text resist to 50409) It’s easy, you don’t have to talk to anyone.
-Tweet the FCC. https://twitter.com/FCC
-Tweet THIS guy. https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC
-CALL. https://www.battleforthenet.com/
-This site does the heavy lifting for you.
-Sign this.
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-Email your congressmen (that’s what I’m doing) https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
-Swim the #NetNeutrality tag on Twitter. Seriously, it’s helpful.
And lastly, GET THIS TRENDING. It’s trending on Twitter but it needs to trend here too. This is everyone’s issue.