Estecka, or so

Personal blogging and, when the stars align, attempts at doing things. More active side blog is @e-steack

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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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Tumblr must have done something to image post because a lot of them look like they were downscaled with nearest-neighbour interpolation.

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Artistic rendition of a random scavenger someone pulled on discord.

Id: -561520376

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Decided to go back and colour it. I have no idea what colour I want for the armour though. I just went with whatever felt right on the moment.

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Mildly Muscular Fairy thinks she's God.

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Armored lady mond... hum I mean, here's a fairy paladin who wields a human-sized sledgehammer, using copious amounts of Mage-Hand, (and a little bit of homebrew).

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Solar Eyes

I usually go for diamond-shaped eyes for her, but wanted to try this. Problem: how do I use eyeliner to prolongate the outer corner of an eye that doesn't have a perceptible outer corner ?

It started out as just a floating pair of eyes, I didn't plan to have a complete skin texture. I should probably crop out the sides so it doesn't look like a UV mapping, but whatever

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Don't mind me, just having fun with the aquarelle brush, and being indecisive about how to blend my layers.

(Please tell me which one you like better.)

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It was supposed to be just a sketch, but I got carried away at all steps of the way. At least I managed to make a cool watercolor-like brush. It's quite an experience trying to do shading with a brush that grows brighter the more you paint over it.

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One niche issue I have about AI is that there's literally a vocaloid called IA, and now whenever I think about IA it reminds me of AI. And what if there's a cool song made with IA but people start thinking it's made with AI ?

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The five stages of making art

Where do I even start.

I fucking butchered it already.

Can I save this ?

I can't save this.

I fucking cooked.

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And don't forget the secret bonus step that can go anywhere: "I literally haven't done anything but I've been looking at it for so long everything has lost its meaning."

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The five stages of making art

Where do I even start.

I fucking butchered it already.

Can I save this ?

I can't save this.

I fucking cooked.

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Why create new OCs, just to steal their pockets ?

Several questions where pondered. And not all of them have found definitive answers. Hair tied upward, or downward? Shoulder length, or shaved undercut? Belly pockets, or crop top? Ash, or Dianna ?

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Attack on @britishmuffin's Misha

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Attack on @kelocitta's Signature

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Revenge on Mishamaru's Sasha