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Character Commissions Open

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Some fun alts that happen when I remove half the background

(Luther belongs to @buboplague)

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The Universe experiencing Itself

Attack on Luther for @buboplague

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Alt: Flat version (Sally © SrSally)

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Attack on Sally for SrSally

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Attack on The Everybeast for @catphantoms

All of his ire is currently directed at a single mosquito he spotted in his room. I know that because I would look the same if there was a mosquito in my room. In fact, there is a mosquito in my room right now.

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Attack on The Stranger by NyenCat

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Process shots:

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Eyes in the Dark

Attack on @mishamaru8773's Wolfeye

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Attack on The Stranger by NyenCat

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Alt version. (Literally just the sketch layer with some gradient.) A very different vibe and not what I was aiming for at all, but still cool.

Radiant Cascade © @mirarge

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🌊 Radiant Cascade

Attack on @mirarge's Radiant Cascade

Alt lighting:

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Spite-fueled sketch because I was dissatisfied with the previous one.

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Kind of a warm-up sketch

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Some simpler alts (?) I picked up during the process. They're more the style I'm hoping to stick too when I'm not punching above my weight class.

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It was supposed to be a simple warmup sketch, but then the previous one happened, so I thought, heh, might as well. Let's see if I can stay consistent with my artstyle for once.

I probably spent an extra hour or two on this one, just to make sure the colour balance was as close as possible. But despite everything I still see stylistic differences. Is it just me?

This is how it ended up before I made sure the colours matched to a T. Shades were a bit darker and redder, and her face more covered in the shadows. Somehow it feels like a completely different vibe; less casual, and more sensual? See, this is why I struggle so much with colours sometimes. Again, is this actually perceptible or is it just me ?

Personally I prefer the more casual one. It's closer to what I had in mind, and the warmer ones feels a little "too much". I can't deny it has something going on for itself, just not what I was going for. Maybe it's because of the colour balance as a whole, maybe it's just the blush on her face that was too pronounced; I toned that down so hard, and multiple times. Maybe I simply don't like how it looks when I make characters blush. Maybe it's just this particular character that doesn't fit the vibe. Coming up with acceptable smut of your own OCs is so hard; I can't even make a throwaway character without getting attached, I still end up having to work around the same mental barriers as with any other.

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This was intended to be a simple warmup sketch, but I once again failed at that task and instead produced one of the best fucking renders of my life.

This was still done in large part with the watercolour brush, but this time I also used opaque brushes for darker spots, so it ended up looking a lot less watered down and a lot softer than usual !

In earlier pieces with this brush, I coloured the lineart based on lighting. Here I planned to swap the colours around: redder in shadows and bluer in the light, but after I got way past the "coloured sketch" stage, I repainted the lit up lines in plain white for extra bloom.

Here's what it looks like when she doesn't deal 1d4 Radiant damages to every creature within a 5ft radius. Not a big change but I still really like the coloration, and can't make a creative decisions to save my life:

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Artistic rendition of a random scavenger someone pulled on discord.

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