marmosette's art blog

an art blog! wow they/them for commissions -> [email protected]

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unfinished Rose painting (my courier 6)

I ran out of steam on this one but I got what I wanted from it, which was the practice :>

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Azalea, my biomancy-healer Rogue Trader

made a custom portrait for her like all my other crpg blorbos

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workin on a boy

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I renamed! lavendersagez -> marmosettes

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Illustrations for my friend's yet-to-be-published steam game, Toridoro!

If you'd like a cute productivity app much like neko atsume, but themed after bird watching, then this game will be for you! :)

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MORE VULPESSS jk I love your art though!

see, this is probably why vulpes likes his hair buzzed. if he has any hair at all he just looks like needs an oversized band t shirt

vulpes would you be more well adjusted if you knew how to write your own poetry or something. or would you just get worse

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HI EVERYBODY <3

I haven't been posting a whole lot because 1) I got depressed once more and things were just. difficult for a while and 2) work has started to really pick up the pace and I simply have not had the bandwidth or the time to work on anything personal like attc. However!!

I've been practicing a whole bunch, experimenting, testing out my brand new cintiq 24 (I was used to doing all my work on 11 inches of screen so 24 is miraculous), and stuff like that. I'm about to get reallllly obnoxious with impasto brushes

in particular I've been trying to improve my anatomy and facial structure skills. tbqh the fact that I wasn't as good at those as I wanted to be kept me from making the comic, cause I just wasn't happy with anything I put down

but now I do actually have the motivation to start working on attc again and finish it out. Here's some sketchin :)

attc is just a bunch of people getting angry at each other and at themselves

<3

I'm gonna make an effort to post more sketches and unfinished stuff here, I think I've had a hangup about that recently and I wanna get over it

anyway!!

thanks for sticking with it

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trying out some new brushes with an oc :)

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Aloth Corfiser

I wanted to redo him, so I did!

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Aloth Corfiser

I wanted to redo him, so I did!

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if anyone's wondered where I've been, I'm working on a pretty heavy commission lol

sowwy for my absence

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i think the best thing about the whole painting-values-first trick is being able to actually edit what i paint - cause before I'd be too afraid to change anything significant past the sketch/coloring stage. And that screwed with my workflow

it'd still be an absolute paint in the ass to, say, take the feather out, but not as much!

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I'm having a fucking blast rn lol

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<3 <3 <3

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Aloth Corfiser - Pillars of Eternity

ok ok I continued the pillars kick by making a custom portrait for Aloth because I. Do not. Like his deadfire portrait. it is simply Too Chiseled.

Also, if you are an artist and you like to mimic traditional painting with a digital medium like me, please. listen. take my hand.

everyone that tells you to paint in the values first and layer transparent colors on second is absolutely, 100% correct. That's what the old masters used to do to save paint, allegedly, but the practice also allowed them to block in the light, details, and everything else without tearing their hair out trying to keep the colors remotely stable. You have to do a bit of work on top of the color glaze, of course. And at that point you can choose to keep the messy-underpainting look or not! Up to you. But it's faster, easier to edit as you go, AND it produces a better result (depending on what look you want).

here's a yt video with an explanation!

Honestly I thought I would hate it because painting the colors is my favorite part of the process, but I had a blast. I felt so free lol

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4/24/26 edit: remade the Boy

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Aloth Corfiser - Pillars of Eternity

4/24/26 edit: remade the Boy

ok ok I continued the pillars kick by making a custom portrait for Aloth because I. Do not. Like his deadfire portrait. it is simply Too Chiseled.

Also, if you are an artist and you like to mimic traditional painting with a digital medium like me, please. listen. take my hand.

everyone that tells you to paint in the values first and layer transparent colors on second is absolutely, 100% correct. That's what the old masters used to do to save paint, allegedly, but the practice also allowed them to block in the light, details, and everything else without tearing their hair out trying to keep the colors remotely stable. You have to do a bit of work on top of the color glaze, of course. And at that point you can choose to keep the messy-underpainting look or not! Up to you. But it's faster, easier to edit as you go, AND it produces a better result (depending on what look you want).

here's a yt video with an explanation!

Honestly I thought I would hate it because painting the colors is my favorite part of the process, but I had a blast. I felt so free lol