Art Dump

Collection of my design inspirations, art, sketches, paintings, WIPs, rants, and design work.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

art by J. C. Leyendecker (1910s to 1930s)

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He was one of the strongest influences in my art. The way he captured light, color and expression is 🤌🏾

I need to buy his artbook.

[ashe-hallows]

with how much this site loves its writer ask games, im astounded ive never seen one for artists, soooo

ARTIST ASK GAME!

1. what medium do you use most (if applicable, what software)?

2. most popular piece?

3. your favorite piece(s)?

4. piece you wish got more love?

5. how would you describe your art style?

6. favorite thing to draw?

7. easiest thing for you to draw?

8. thing you struggle to draw?

9. whats something you always come back to when drawing?

10. how do you deal with artblock?

11. do you listen to anything while drawing?

12. describe your process while drawing

13. talk about a wip you like!

14. whats your favorite thing about drawing?

15. least favorite thing about drawing?

16. how do you motivate yourself to draw?

17. what is something youre confident about in your art?

18. something you feel like you need to work on?

19. where do you find inspiration?

20. is your workspace, digital or not, organized (not neat, organized)?

21. what do you think your artstyle would taste like?

22. do you have a favorite color palette to work with?

23. how many artstyles can you work in confidently?

24. whats a compliment about your art that has always stuck with you?

25. what size canvas/paper do you use?

26. what do you physically draw with (pencil and paper, tablet, etc)?

27. do you ever have multiple wips going at once?

28. whats a piece you would like to redraw at some point?

29. do you use a lot of references while drawing?

30. whats something youre proud of about your artstyle?

31. which fandom have you drawn the most for?

32. have you done a lot of collabs?

33. have you taken a lot of classes for art?

34. whats something you still like from your old art?

35. if you had one piece of advice to give your younger artist self, what would it be?

(remember to give the person you reblog from an ask!!)

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Yup, I'm actually reblogging something on this account.

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Mr. Terrific

I promised myself I wouldn't go all corporate graphic design on this, but here we are.

I need to redo my Guy Gardner drawing to match this design.

EDIT: I changed his mask, because the other one wasn't working.

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Doodles Logotype

I finally created a logo TYPE for my sketches and non work stuff. For a variety of reasons, I move at a turtle's pace.

I didn't want to create an overly elaborate logomark nor did I just want to write my initials/name in a box (not like either things are bad). I just wanted something super simple, non-polished logotype/signature/watermark that'll be easy to update if I want to divide my brand into different areas. Plus if I wanted to, I can drop "Artwork" and the top and bottom design elements and still have a strong visual with just the "doodles" type, so there's that.

I will definitely update this when I have a better identity/idea to what this account specifically will be about.

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Eye Studies Coming

Almost done with the first eye study. Gotta fix the eye ball and add a darker gradient in the eye white. Also, I need to fix the right side folds by adding a darker value to make it pop more.

7-28-24

Not sure if I want to continue using that skin texture brush. In Procreate and Sketchbook Pro is fantastic, but in Photoshop it sucks. Also I like that not fully rendered eyebrow look.

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Finished

Well...

I had to wing it in the sleeves, because I couldn't make the details from the grainy and low res set leaks.

Also, I cropped his bowl cut much shorter, lol.

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Rebranding

I've gone for so long without properly branding my professional and personal digital identity. There are things that I'm in the process of fleshing out:

Create Separate Online Identities For Work and Play

For so long I would combine personal and work art/design projects on social media. It's not that I didn't know that wasn't the best practice, it's just, when it comes to my own personal brand, I can be incredibly lazy.

After deleting a whole bunch of very old art, I designated my old and abandoned Instagram account doo.dl.es as my personal art account. I'm in the process of figuring out my personal design accounts. Eventually, I'll link both the Instagram and Tumblr accounts together. At this point I'm not sure if I want to create a logotype/logo or a monogram of my username (see next point for clarification).

2. Figure Out What I'm All About

Yes, I know. I just don't know what I'm all about. Will I just focus on digital art? Will I only sketch/paint women's faces and/or hot delicious men (RAWR)? Will this account just be experimental? I JUST DON'T KNOW at this point. To start I'm just going to do whatever I want and maybe later figure out what I want to do the most.

The same goes for the design account. I know I want to include motion design, composites, a few UI/UX projects, etc., etc. I know this account will have a custom logo. Still haven't decided if I want this to be my freelance identity or a personal one. I'm leaning toward the freelance since I don't do much design projects outside of work.

3. Flesh out the Technical Aspects

I *COULD* use a templated design ready to go, but I won't learn anything new. The way I grow as a design professional is to CHALLENGE MYSELF. So I'm going to use Figma to design and AWS S3 to host my static design portfolio. THEN, I'm going to use it as a case study on my actual portfolio. WISH ME LUCK!

I've decided to use two portfolios based on friends and recruiter feedback. One will focus more on corporate based designs and the other will focus more on my more creative freelance projects. For my corporate portfolio I already have the domain name in mind, I just have to find a decent deal on the price. So far it's looking like it's going to be either Hostinger or Amazon's Route 53. Currently I'm using Domain.com for my work domain, and Weebly to host.

EDIT 5-31-24: Nevermind. Using AWS will only work if I have a simple static website with no server-side scripting. Getting https to work will involve another AWS service. Route 53 is too expensive compared to other Domain name providers.

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DONE

Ok, I'll admit I really like the texture of the brush I used in Procreate, but the app interface isn't as intuitive enough for my liking.

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Progress…

5-4-24

I finally got some time to work on this. I need to finish the jaw line, neck, hair and top, THEN it’s the skin highlights!

5-9-24

A difference highlights make!

It’s been slow going, but I should have this done soon ☺️

On a side note that grainy brush is everything, especially how it beautifully blends into the skin.

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So Far...

I'm not impressed.

I got an iPad for UI/UX work. I thought it would be a great opportunity to try out Procreate and the Apple Pencil.

The Apple Pencil is just heavenly, especially compared to the jitter prone Surface pen. I can create beautiful marks with a feather touch. The last time I was able to do that was on a Wacom tablet/Wacom Tablet PC. If only Apple could work with Microsoft for their Surface line (yes, I know, fat chance, lol).

Unfortunately, so far my experience with Procreate isn't as impressive as the Apple Pencil. The user interface isn't very intuitive, especially versus Sketchbook. Within minutes of using Sketchbook I could create great works of art without having to stop and Google "how to..."

The brushes out the box in Procreate vs the brushes in Sketchbook aint even close. Just look at the gorgeous brush work between the two. Sketchbook completely puts Procreate to shame. And color? Forget it. Look how muted all the colors are from Procreate, now look at the vibrant collection of colors from Sketchbook.

Could my opinion change once I get more accustomed to Procreate? Sure. Is it a completely fair comparison? Probably not, since the toucan painting was done on a Surface Pro 4 and Surface Studio 2 with a desktop version of Sketchbook. I also want to point out I'm on a 10th gen iPad (not the pro version). I think once I'm done with the test portrait I will download the tablet version of Sketchbook on the iPad for a better/fair comparison. Considering all the hype, I expected Procreate to knock my socks off, it didn't.

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AH HA!

Instead of trying to generate a new section from scratch, I inverted the letter shaped mask in Photoshop for the reference frames. So when the content aware fill in After Effects generates a fill layer it will look much more seamless.

In both gifs I only used THREE reference frames compared to this 😄

PROGRESS!

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DAMNIT

You know what that means...

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And DONE!

They are not perfect (if I stare where the text/logo was I can see where it was removed), but considering this is my first time doing it, for the most part I'm happy with them.

I'm not going to lie the logo/text removal process was a real bitch. It was such a time consuming process. Sure I could've scaled up and cropped the text and logos out, but why not challenge myself? While these gifs look basic, the time spent on them was a valuable learning experience that I will take with me when editing work videos.

I'll post the episode recap with the above gifs over at my fandom account @hellostickerdoodle . I should be done with everything by tomorrow. Posts will be here: The Curse: Wedding Shenanigans | The Curse Continues

And now I need to sleep :)

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HA! HA!

Yes, all of this (content-aware fill, tracker and reference frames) to remove a logo for a gif that's going to be approximately five seconds long.

Hahaha.

Why am I so anal-retentive?

Not bad. If you zoom in on some of the frames you can see where the logo was removed, but it's a low res gif so...eh.

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Finally!

So I finally got my ass in gear and gathered all the video clips I need to make season 6 episode 1 gifs.

Yes, I should be using Premiere to edit down these things, but fuck it, lol.

Yes, I'm going to use one project file for The Rookie's shorten season, because fuck it.

I'm going to finally try out the content aware fill in After Effects to cover the ABC logo. That should be fun :)

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Adobe CC 2024

If you're on 2023 DON'T UPGRADE, IT'S FULL OF WORK STOPPING BUGS (especially InDesign).

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Tried Something A Little Different

Ok, so instead of using two separate gifs, I decided to place footage side by side using track mattes and freeze frame. Also, I wanted a transparent space in between so I opened the output file in Photoshop and added a layer mask. It's waaaaay more work doing that versus the first method of creating two separate gifs.

If I had extra footage of their reaction while the other is speaking it would have been far more successful. Next time I'll just stick with exporting out as two separate image files, lol.