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revampin' the art blog

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some of my fave inktobers/lost light fests! :} 

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Energon Refinery

was workin on some environments and one of them was a new pre-war robot thing! 

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Got out of my painting funk with sum Arcee :}. and to try something new, it comes in shirt form! 

Here’s the process from last night’s stream:

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LIVESTREAM IN 5 MIN.

Painting more robots today. :D

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Videos Postponed

Hi everyone! 

I figured I’d make an update to this rather than leave you all in the dark. I’ve kind of been in a garbage place creatively for a few months now and feel it may be best to postpone the tutorial videos until I gather my bearings again and get back into the habit of making art I enjoy. I may revisit them when I feel a bit less crappy, I’m not sure.

Regardless, please feel free to ask any questions and I can get to them in text form like I did before. I’ll still see if I can record some time lapses or set up streams in the meantime.

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I´m wondering... where do yo start with a design for a transformer? with the alt-mode? or with the robot-mode?

Hi there! I try to nail down the character of the robot mode first, actually!

I generally have a rough idea of what the vehicle is going to be (ie. a jet, a car, etc.), so I know to include wheels or wings or something like that, but the most important thing is making sure their personality shows through.

Re: Transformations, you can also kind of beef it a little as long as the proportions seem right and you have a rough idea of how stuff would fit together.

In the end, Transformers is more of a science fantasy story than hard sci fi, so the mechanics don’t have to be hyper-accurate, just convincing enough so it seems like it can work.

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You're a really big inspiration to me ❤️ I love your painting of tarn video, you've helped me a lot! I hope all the best for you, you're great

Thanks so much anon. :) I’m really glad to hear it was of some help to you. More is on the way! 

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Here’s a super quick sketch I did while testing out a new tripod and stuff for tutorial/demos (before the camera battery ran out whoOPS). There’s still some things I gotta work on so bear with me here. 

Thanks for being patient. :) 

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‘touching up an old piece’ means completely reworking it in my terrible brain so have a much sparklier and more detailed version of the pre-war energon refinery from ages long past. 

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paintin’ more robots

I’m putting together a series of TF-focused painting tip vids for the next upcoming couple of weeks, but I’m curious what people would be most interested in! I’ll be delving into the topics I covered in the Tarn vid but in more detail.

Stuff like Composition, Lighting, and Gesture (posing, expressions) and other things if I can think of them.

What do you think should be explored first or would like to see me cover? 

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I really appreciate the speedpaint with voiceover, i was actually able to learn something from it! I think some mild criticism i have is that i would rather know some of the specifics towards the end with the rendering (the blur, color dodge, etc) but otherwise really well done, and i cant wait to see more!

I’m really happy to hear it helped out! :) 

The stuff at the end was mostly playing around with filters, which would need another few minutes to explain when there are other tutorials pretty readily available that can do that better than me. 

The first filter I used was a Gaussian Blur with a Layer Mask (on a separate layer) to try to emulate a camera’s depth of field. With the Layer Mask, I can cut out the parts I wanted to remain sharp, and push back other parts that can remain blurry.

The second technique is called a Chromatic Aberration effect. It emulates a 3-D glasses kind of look which can add interesting colors to a piece. In Photoshop, you duplicate your flattened painting and go into the Layer Styles (by right-clicking the layer), and it allows your to turn off the RGB channels you don’t want. Then just move that layer around around and voila! 

This vid covers it in depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6eseP25pk

Using filters for final touch ups could probably be a whole video on its own, but if you have any other questions feel free to ask! 

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talking about how i approach painting stuff during the time lapse for tarn. it’s kind of rambly but hopefully some of it is helpful! (´∀｀)

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The result of last night’s stream: wet robots. :o

Thanks for stopping by everybody! 

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a lot of pokemon news as of late left me inspired to do skarmory :D my fav metal bird dude

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Q&A Fridays

GOSH!

all you guys have seriously been awesome to me, and I thought I’d give back a little with some proper Q&A stuff! If you have any art questions on technique, art school, transformers stuff, whatever, feel free to send it my way! I’ll answer them in a Q&A thing at the end of the work week. The responses will be tagged #isotypes

I’ve cleared out my inbox so I’ll be more ontop of things .. I think, let’s see how this works out.

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Hello hello! I'm going to start drawing digatal art on sai pain but I need a drawing tablet first. I was just wonder what's the best Wacom tablet I should use that's not over 200$.

Hello there! Hope your art exploration is going well! Sorry for the wait, I’ve been a bit terrible with keeping track of my asks while I was in uni.

To answer your question: Wacom’s Bamboo series is a nice little first perusal into tablets that’s under 200$. It’s the first tablet I got way back in middle school and it served me well for playing around until I knew I wanted to put money into an Intuos (which I still use today!). Bamboos are small so they’re very mobile!

There are other companies you might want to look into (like Monoprice) that also make tablets, but I haven’t used them so I can’t really say much about them.

Hope that helps!

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Would Prime be an evil homeworld diamond?

Hi anon!

I see Optimus being more of an (eventual) rebel, but there was a time when Prowl served the Senate. 

Maybe Proteus and Sentinel should be next on the gem-ification list!