Costumed Non-Superheroes

Do as I do and not as I say.

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This has been x-posted to so many places...done in Paint Tool Sai 2 in combination with Photoshop for finishing touch-ups. Tablet equipment is my awesome Gaomon PD which I got ages ago. Wanted to draw a happy superhero/superheroine for once because you always have to balance the negatives/trauma/tragedy with the positives/happy things/great experiences in life for good mental health! Spider-Gwen is just out for her morning flight!

To see full drawing process please go to my YouTube Channel: HexerBexter. The video should be up in 24 hours (since I schedule all my video uploads because of OCD).

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After a long hiatus, another drawing yaaay! I am aware that she’s left handed, but she tucks her rapier on her left side (in screen shots) and I’m just wondering if the creators actually understand how retarded that is. Have you tried to draw out your weapon quickly using your left hand from your own left side? Like seriously?

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I’m in a water colour mood these days…

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A landscape-ish digital painting this time, based on Forever Fall in RWBY (my fav fictional place ever!) and the Yosemite National Park which I visited with my friend last year! This one took me  forever because I was mostly playing with textures I have in my Sai2 (I think you can tell from the drawing heheh) and I was juggling with work/conference talk research/actually attending the said conference/trying to fight cold weather. It’s just suddenly gotten super chilly these couple of weeks and from what I hear it’s only going to get worse. I just get so sleepy and un-motivated at night when it’s cold so I’m trying to squeeze in everything I need to get done during the day...

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I’ve been so out of it doing night shifts and preparing a presentation for work/weekend conference for next weekend. Anyway, if you have been wondering (like I have) what James Ironwood might have looked like in his younger days (before his half-terminator body), here’s my crappy head-canon! I’ve been having artist block, non-motivation/whatever you call it so this is a very quick piece. All done on Gaomon screen tablet with Sai2 and photoshop. I think I like screen tablets better than the normal tablets now...

Now if I can ever go back and finish my Dr Strange fan art at some point in my life...

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This piece took me longer than I thought it would. I blame the transistor details making me unmotivated (excuses excuses...). I also took way longer than I should have on Sybil for some unknown reason. The slight different design in the transistor and the length of Red’s coat/jacket makes this AU from the game because the artist says so.

So I’ve been meaning to draw a piece of work for Transistor for ages because it’s literally the first game I bought on PS4 (not counting the Final Fantasy X and X-2 that came as a bundle) and I love every second of that game! Best soundtrack too of course. As part of breaking in my XP-pen DECO01 tablet I finally got off my lazy bum to draw something. Anyhow, as per usual, this work is done with the combination of two tablets. Gaomon and XP-pen DECO01. I used Photoshop Portable to make colour adjustments to the overall photo after colouring it all.

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Count Ozpin (or as I would like to call it ‘Why I didn’t go into Fine Art’) because it’s based on Mead Schaeffer’s painting of Count of Monte Cristo and yes I was practicing light and shadows XD. I didn’t add his quirky glasses and changed his jacket to a coat, we’re going to pretend this is a slightly younger Ozpin who’s not near-sighted (but those are sunglasses???) yet! Also for all of you wanting an omnous/evil looking Ozpin, here it is.

Also it occurred to me Ozpin and Maleficent have similar designs, both got a cane/staff, both have a crow hanging around, both have green-coloured magic...maybe he is actually Maleficent LOL.

I think you may see more of Ozpin because I’m about to address a VERY big problem I have with the more recent developments in the RWBY series. It’s character specific so...

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Another RWBY fan art, this time a Grimm! As you can tell I’m trying out different techniques for drawing/painting. Also trying to draw different things from creatures, animals, scenery and people of course...

This was done 80% in Sai2 with Gaomon tablet, 17% more with Wacom Bamboo (when I had to move to my other house for work) and last 3% general image editing with Photoshop.

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Quick/simple sketch on my Wacom Bamboo since the other piece I was working on is at my other abode while I’m at my parent’s house as I’m currently I’m doing jury service so I have to travel to city center everyday...

Also here’s the Gaomon PD1560 review I promised you guys for those who are interested!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z41t9tG1u60

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Back to doing a RWBY character. I like Cinder’s older designs a lot better than the later ones...that’s all I’ll say. Her sneak and stealth outfit holds a special place in my heart. I had to add some additional colours to it and also sorry for the laziest background ever but I was drawing a blank for ideas and I already spent as long as I wanted on this piece of work. I bought a new drawing tablet to replace the Wacom Bamboo because Aliexpress is doing their anniversary sale! It’s an XP-Pen Deco 01, I’ve been wanting an upgrade on that sensitivity level! I’m also working on a video review of the Gaomon tablet I bought and used for a while!

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Had to draw a girl this time, Kaguya from the Touhou series (specifically the game: Imperishable Night). It was a bullet hell game series that I got into a long time ago so it’s a little nostalgic for me. They have great music/remixes! This was done as a combination of Gaomon/Wacom Bamboo again because I move between two houses for work purposes so depends on which house I’m at, I use a specific digital drawing tool. Heheh I was using Wacom Bamboo to draw the bamboo background-ahem I’ll show myself out...also had to google how to draw bamboo leaves specifically....

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Still working ‘uncle Qrow’ through my mental system. The sword is all wrong but please disregard that...when I realized how complicated the sword structure was going to be in my initial sketch I promptly named the file ‘ihatemyself’ for real. I’m terrible with backgrounds so I went generic dark night with textures for snow and black feathers.

This was done with combination of Wacom Bamboo and Gaomon monitor tablet. Background effects done in photoshop everything else done in Paint Tool Sai 2.

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If Oscar/Ozpin turned up 30 minutes later than he did, I always felt like it would probably turn out like this...

Just a little line art only drawing/comic/whatever. I was just hoping to practice drawing lines and hands etc.

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So like this scene stayed in my head forever because Qrow was so badass, way cooler than the Season 5 finale when he was kinda getting owned left right and center (well okay it wasn’t THAT bad but still...) At least he’s still hawt...

This was supposed to be from Tyrian’s POV when he rushes Qrow (hence the blured outside areas of the picture) but I cannot find great motion lines brushes for some reason. They are all too small hence when I increase the size of the brushes to fit the picture they get all pixilated...T_T I’m sure there’s a solution but I couldn’t find it yet...

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I still can’t get over how adorable Oscar is! *cue Squeeeeeee! here* So here’s in the words of Nora ‘Little Cute Boy Ozpin’ along with Zwei (because it’s the Chinese Zodiac year of the Dog wohoo!).

Ozpin’s cane will be the death of me, me when doing line art “cane needs to be simplified down to just grey and brown because it’s CHIBI art!” me when colouring “I’M DRAWING THE GEARS IN AND IT’S TOO MUCH DETAILS AGAIN DAMMIT!”

This might be TMI but I didn’t like Ozpin’s old character design, I thought overall he’s a ‘meh’ character. Then Oscar turned up and I was like “OMFG YES!” and when Ozpin speaks through him I’m like “OMFG DOUBLE YES!” so does that make me having a younger boy kink (I swear I’m not some kind of sex offender) or an (really) old guy kink? Hmmmmmmm.... (insert a picture of the thinker statue here)

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Oscar and Ozpin in keeping with the RWBY series art I started doing in my previous post. I’m normally not a background drawing sort of person so this background is literally my best one to date perhaps...XD. Done this drawing mainly to try out my new drawing monitor tablet I recently got. Have to say I’m loving it!

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Name of work: False Spring. Finally got back into drawing with a tablet. Still a long way from anything sorta good but here’s a piece for the RWBY series I have recently gotten into. The character Vernal was actually quite cool. Hopefully my next pieces with my tablet would be more acceptable standards.