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A question about your brush: How do the colors not blend so much with each other?
I'm trying the settings you shared years ago, but when I try to put one color over the other, it blends and comes out much less saturated than the original color.
I'm not sure if there's something I'm missing, I'm still learning how to finagle with colors, but when I watch your speedpaint, the blue comes out as the color selected, without just blending into the colors that are already there and turning out desaturated.
Sorry if this isn't really clear, I didn't know how to explain/describe it.
Hi, Anon!
I'm using CSP now, so I'll be taking screenshots from it. Below is an example drawn with my current brush set up and how i use it.
(Barok profile again, its just very shapely and easy to draw very quickly for examples)
I personally go with this one since i tend to pass by with my brush on an area a few times on one same trace to give it depth or switch to only using the bottom colour for some things (see bottom pics).
If you're using the same brush, but you select the under colour, it looks like this:
Shape before I used only the second colour on the brush:
But! You can also just play with the brush density + paint quantity of the brush so that it comes out more pigmented (the stroke under the arrow was just one with no repassing over any areas)
It doesn't match my style since I often do want to get the more desaturated greyish colours. I prefer the desaturated colours and then adding in the saturation via just by using an opaque brush with no dual colour setting on it on specific part (first orange and blue pic) or repassing with the brush very gently on that area and having the contrast make it look more saturated (see pic below, 1 is the blob example, 2 shows the "saturated colours" of the blob with the ones im mixing besides it).
Ex, I only added that opaque red in the areas surrounded by green, but if you look at it in the version of the image without the green line, but if you colour pick it and say the cheek, you'll see that the cheek is more desaturated but still reads as reddish. (I picked that light blue-surrounded spot because looking at it quickly is was the more saturated looking part of that dual colour brush)
So often it's not that my colours on the dual brush are saturated, it's more like I'm just tricking your eye into thinking they are by what's around it and adding the actual saturated colour in a small amount of places.
Hopefully this helps and makes sense?
Or at least gives you an idea on how to start playing with that type of setting on a brush.
Ah. I usually stream as a spur of the moment thing, so at most I might give an hour warning on a day I do stream on bsky (sometimes on here too). Though, I do delete the link to streams and whatnot when it ends. I personally use picarto.tv to stream, so maybe if you follow me there, you'd get notifications when it starts, but then you run into the problem of no warning again.
It's not really often I get the drive to stream, so I never set up a schedule...
May we use your art as pfps/headers as long as proper credit is given and it's not commissioned art? No worries if you'd rather people not!
Hello, anon!
Yes, as long as it's not a commissioned piece, or a gift piece, you can use my art as pfps/headers!
If you're unsure about a specific piece because I mention a friend in the caption (i e like "I was talking to Y and this came out of the talk"), please feel free to ask 👍
Drawn for the brry12moons prompt home on bsky!
Home is where the heart is.
Happy Valentine's in advanced🫀🫀
Here are the other sketches before I settled on just this. I thought of making the heart be the prosecutor badge's red diamond for that Ryuu showing Barok Justice imagery and reinstating his faith but it felt too busy and I just didn't like the way it was going at that moment.
Drawn for the brry12moons prompt home on bsky!
Home is where the heart is.
Happy Valentine's in advanced🫀🫀
Here are the other sketches before I settled on just this. I thought of making the heart be the prosecutor badge's red diamond for that Ryuu showing Barok Justice imagery and reinstating his faith but it felt too busy and I just didn't like the way it was going at that moment.
Do you have any tips for to drawing the face? I keep running into an issue where it feels like I draw eyes too large, or if I try to draw them small, they’re so spaced out from each other that it looks unnatural.
I’m trying to push away from anime influences and lean towards a more stylized but somewhat realistic style
Eh, "general" rule of thumb is to space them about one eye away from each other. There's also that rule that faces are split in 3 with the nose being about the middle of the face and ears going from eye corner to mouth corner and the mouth spans the length from the center of one eye to another(quick drawing to show those "rules").
Now. There are "general rules" not reality- I don't really use them myself. People can have more or less space between their eyes, higher or lower noses, wider or smaller mouths. It'll require practice, and you should do so by drawing real people with reference.
Learn how skeletons look like and what the most obvious muscles/fat deposits are by simplifying the shapes of it until you get it, or by observatio. That would also help you know how to plane things.
After you have a general idea of how what's under the skin works, then you know how the shadows/depths of it would work, so you can skip to just this:
You want to draw real people- don't bother with the current popular hollywood or influence celebrities. They have a lot of work done (or higher chance of it), you won't see the breadth of possible features and their combination on a face as well as how they look like at different angles (or know how to 3D rotate them yourself to know what type of reference to look for). That way, you'll have more features under your toolbelt to build a character's face to reflect how you read their attributes.
(ok I'm exaggerating, you can look at them some times, but your artistic skill and imagination as well as "what does a general person look like" would suffer severely if they are your only examples faces)
Never forget to have fun.
If you are practicing on PC, remember you can always play with the layers to see how your drawing matches. I would say to do that after as a check your homework after you referenced by looking.
Also I'm going to paint or slightly colour, I try to get the shadows plane right from the getgo- it'll pretty much break or make your face and if Idont get those shadows right at first then I'll have a nightmare of a time getting the features right after.
I didnt draw the details of Barok's face in the drawing below until after I got the shadows right so like I did most of the skin texture (the left skin texture TM is a re-creation of what I did- this barok is from November. That's also why theres a random skull, it's from a doodle layer)
Now note that these things work for me. Your approach at colouring, or actually building a face from geometric shapes might work better for you. The important part is that you practice with reference and know what's under the skin so you know how to play with it. It's knowing the rules to know how to break them for stylization.
If I may be frank for a little, I think your approach to art is the closest I will get to the sort of style and atmosphere I want to convey with my art. I don’t want to outright copy you of course, but I would love to truly understand the thought process behind your art and study it.
I found out about you through your DDS art around when I got into it in like 2020. And I haven’t really found any artists who do it quite like you do. It’s so raw and clear yet messy all the same, and I love it.
I can’t quite understand the way you do things yet, but I hope your influence on my art is very clear because I have really looked up to you for years.
Thank you for the wonderful art. ❤️
Thank you, I'm really flattered to hear! I hope someday you're comfortable enough to show me a piece.
Don't worry, I understood it was more of inspiration and not copying that you wanted to do. I think dissecting what others do to see why you like it so that you can digest it and give it your own touch is good. You only improve by studying and all.
I think making sure that the values are clear can help something messy still read very clear. A lot of it is also just finding what you can get away with implying rather than drawing to help guide the eye- which is pretty hard. I still gotta get better at that lol
As for thought process. I would say being a pervert will give you a boost. It's also a bit more difficult to explain, because often it's just my brain making random connections that sometimes make sense, other times not. The short answer is I vibe and let the folds of my brain trib.
Like for this one below, I grabbed one of those grape clusters because I wanted to snack and i just thought "holding it like this looks like a lung lol" like you know, alveoli. They look like grapes in medical diagrams!
Which I suppose is just another way of saying I like seeing ghosts of other things. What are roots if not veins and branches if not bronchiole and red cardinals really do look like pomegranates if you think about it. Little tuft of hair uptop, the colour...
And visual metaphors are metaphors, so you can always use something else as a stand in for what you mean to give it a new layer. Cardinal mating habits include the male feeding its mate in what looks like a kiss.
So you're just going to have to get interested in things. Read to be exposed to new ways to describe things and new expressions, in your own language or ones you're learning. The arginana below is based on a japanese expression that literally translates to "a hand comes out of (my/your/etc) throat" to express wanting something very badly.
This one here is literally just a sex joke:
I thought that Varna's neck things looked like a vagina, and concha is a slang (in spanish) to refer to the female genitalia. I think I captioned these "cometela"? That's like "Go fuck yourself" but literally translates to "go eat your(own)" as in give yourself head.
The other thing is don't skip on having some more than basic understanding on how the components making your subject work under the surface. If you know what lies under, it's easier to warp its skeleton while also making it still look cohesive. It helps to find more metaphors or echoes of other things too, like turning Ryuu's pin into a rosary, echoing it in the scars Barok van Zieks has, among reasons.
A lot of these decisions are made on a whim when I sit down to draw, so it's something you'll develop as you go, just as you'll develop your own visual language. And just as language grows the more concepts there are to communicate, so will your artistic arsenal the more you observe things. I personally read a lot of science stuff and have other hobbies that can help me learn something new to add into my art.
You'll get to the point where you, too, will find how to make life be perverted.
(Note that im very tongue in cheek about being a pervert, but I don't mean you have to make it horny. There are so many different ways to be a pervert, after all.)
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