Semper Vigilantem

Ciphers' Flight Rising Sideblog

[jazzuli]

attack for snowdroprd on artfight!

process and talkies under the cut

e: do us both a favor and view in full, prev is rly crunchy

lately i've been challenging myself with rendering full scenes because i've never really been one to finish art like this. im pretty pleased with the contrast in the scene! when i finished my first pass of rendering and changed it to grayscale, the canvas looked like this:

fairly clear, but definitely some room to exaggerate values. squinting i can't really make out the form. so I went in with good old #FFFFFF and #000000 to bring the subject to the foreground:

and after going through with some additional tweaks (dodge and burn layers plus shimmying the contrast and lightness around), the final piece in grayscale looks like this:

certainly not perfect but an improvement to the composition yipeepee

i also used a blur + color dodge dupe layer for the lineart, slight blur on the bg and distant parts of the subject (couldn't help myself), and an overlay to give the shadows some nice hues yayyy

[stories-in-the-wind]

I desperately have the desire to draw but the heat makes it hard to have motivation. This is a 30 minute sketch to wind down the night after getting frustrated with a different composition I scrapped (completely unrelated to this drawing). If there's something I can count on it's Pidge being the source of a stress free drawing.

[elvhen-arts]

Commission for CloudlessPlanet on FR

[urvogel-arts]

Another drawing from my FR thread!

[zeniths-fr]

doodle of my dragon herron

[noodledoodlesfr]

for Fyralath!

[canopycrepesofficial]

GRAND OPENING [A FR fan ask blog]

(A monotone, yet elegant, voice speaks to you over the cafe counter of the newly opened Canopy Crepes) "Welcome to Canopy Crepes, Im Abalone, fifth of my name. How may I take your order?..."

(this a silly ask blog I made inspired off of this post by @ciphers-fr) Abalone is a classically trained pastry chef from an esteemed family line that unfortunately is being made to work fast food.

[opossun]

I loved working on this one, feathers are my darlings!! 400% zoomed version of a commission for the lovely Scarecrows!!

[forcedcoma]

Commission for the sweetest Condemned on FR, was a joy to work with and draw this beautiful imperial/ridge hybrid angy boy for them!

[calebwittebane]

the catcherrrrr. sketch

[kvvarde]

Who angered the Sandsurge? (for interested the dragon tag is #110436712)

[penthousedragon]

drew a couple of my flightrising den dragons, hand picked by friends on a call :D

[airris-fr]

What is your Flight Rising bad habit?

[ixiwings]

Oh my god OK so this is my style from 2019 and finding this again makes me realise it's my own older style that I want to draw in lol. Well that sort of simplifies it because it means I can already do it, I just need to 'rediscover' how I drew like this, with the brushes I have now because this was done in Sai V1 and I lost everything when I upgraded to V2.

[calebwittebane]

the catcherrrr. i really like him he's so weird looking and strange and peculiar

[secondtolastfr]

Yknow given how closely the new fam resembles the Lightweaver art I wouldn’t be surprised if the other deity constellations do the same

[hor-wod-flir]

In light of these revealing news, the Water Familiar has already been leaked!

[opossun]

He's suffering from the big bad art block unfortunately