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Hey, I'm Ángel! I'm a dude who enjoys painting whenever he has spare time. Hope you like my stuff :)  

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"Welcome to the playground"

Fanart of Arcane to end the year! Vi is my favourite character from the show. Besides, I started playing League when she was released and I remember how excited I was about her theme song and overall aesthetics.

I'm very satisfied with this artwork, so I hope you like it!

The background is based on this picture by Sonya >> 搜你丫

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"The best available friend"

My interpretation of Bea Santello from Night in the Woods as a human. I really enjoyed that game and she was the one I most empathized with.

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"Golden hour" (censored version)

Very proud of this one.

The complete version can be found on my Artstation.

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Still practicing expressions! This is a study from a scene from "Things heard and seen". I really liked Amanda Seyfried's performance. She's very expressive, so I thought this would be a good practice. My goal was capturing the expression rather than resemblance to the actress.

I also tried a rougher way of painting, using less brush strokes and not obsessing so much over blending.

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Battle Academia Caitlyn

Portrait of Caitlyn from League of Legends. This started as a sketch but decided to finish it because I really like this skin. Also, getting a second monitor allowed me to record part of the process. Next time I'll be able to record it completely 👌

Credits for the textures used:

Sirius-sdz: https://bit.ly/2R2Zgy9

Myruso: https://bit.ly/2Qy69I6

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100 noses!

The other day I realised I had never studied how to draw a nose properly. As many of us, I started drawing trying to imitate the Manga style, where the nose is usually very simplified. When I later moved to semi-realism, I didn’t take the time to learn its structure. And I recently discovered that that was taking a toll on my portraits.

 In my opinion, the nose is the most difficult facial trait to draw in complex angles. Besides, by drawing different kinds of noses you can achieve more variety on characters and avoid the same-face syndrome. For all this, it seemed like a good idea to invest some time on learning how to approach the nose. 

To begin with, I watched two videos on the subject: one by Proko and one by Angel Ganev. Proko’s is more technical and is very good to learn about the structure of the nose. Angel provides a pragmatical process to analyse and draw the nose, simplifying what Proko teaches us. Then I set out to draw a hundred noses with the objective of blocking its different parts from a variety of perspectives. All the references were taken from Pinterest. 

Did I get better at it? I don’t really know. Some of them ended up looking really neat while others are hideous. Perhaps a hundred was a bit too much because it became a chore after the 60-something. However, what I liked about this self-set challenge is that I could complete it and I feel more confident about drawing noses from different points of view.

Thanks for reading!

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Judy

In most games, sex workers are treated as a joke or as disposable objects. Well, Judy breaks this toxic trend for she fights against the exploitation of them, and that makes her stand out as a character to me.

Also, her questline got me super hooked and she calling V “calabacita” is the cutest thing ever.

Credits:

Reference: https://artstation.com/a/1949542 (Grafit Studio)

Brushes: https://artstation.com/a/2363202 (pixolnaut)

https://deviantart.com/z-design/art/Z-design-Tech-brushes-set-v2-20701749… (z-design)

Textures: http://textures.com

Thanks to redditor u/Max_Mit03 for posting Judy's tattoos

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I forgot to upload this here! I'll try to post here more often!

This one is titled "Dance Little Liar". It's inspired by the homonymous song by the Arctic Monkeys , which is easily in my top 3 favourites. Very satisfied with how it turned out! Hope you like it!

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The unwelcome resident

Something quite different from what I usually do. As a matter of fact, I really like horror. Not gore nor jumpscares, but I like the stuff that is unsettling and makes you feel somewhat anxious. Take for example the Babadook. You never quite know what’s there, but it makes you feel anxious. Psychological horror is also something I enjoy and, as a lifelong fan of Resident Evil, zombies haha

Anyway, so some months ago I was walking in the lonely basement of my university and came across a narrow corridor with a semi-open door. At that moment I imagined how cool it would be if some bizarre creature came out of it, so I took the picture that I later used to make this artwork.

It was super fun to work on this and it was a completely different experience. Also, I usually work from the greyscale to color and this time it was the opposite! 

Credits to user Niedec-STOCK at deviantART for the super useful Glitch Art Stock Pack

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Hardship

Keep reading for thoughts on the artwork and credits

Today I wanted to share with you a fanart I made and some thoughts about one of League of Legends champions: Ahri.

Almost since I started playing the game, back in 2013, Ahri has been my favourite League character, so much so Foxfire was the first skin I ever bought. When the Vastaya were introduced in the lore, Riot rewrote her bio and gave her two colour stories. After reading them, I felt very pleased with the change that turned Ahri into a much deeper character.

For those who aren’t acquainted with her lore or only heard of the old one (where she was a fox who transformed into a human), I invite you to read her present bio and stories. Riot gave her a new meaning as a character in the lonely search of her identity and of a place in the world that surrounds her. A character who must control its natural power while burdening with guilt and remorse.

Unfortunately, all the appealing parts of her story and personality aren’t reflected in her present voice lines in-game. Maybe that’s why some people still consider her to be shallow. Perhaps the misconception also comes from how she’s portrayed in some of her skins: being super sassy (Academy and SG) or being a complete diva (Popstar and K/DA). Don’t get wrong, I love those skins, but I’m glad Riot took a different direction with Elderwood.

To express my appreciation for Ahri, I decided to pay tribute to her lore by illustrating a scene of the hardship in her younger years, when she lived among the icefoxes. I hope you like the artwork and any constructive feedback is appreciated. Thanks for reading my opinion and I hope you enjoyed the artwork.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Credit of the picture that I intervened to make the background: Image by Michael Gaida  

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“Mercado de ideas lógicamente contradictorias”

Thoughts: first time painting with watercolours since I was like five years old! I think it looks quite decent for being the first time. I certainly had fun while doing this. 

Traditional media has that extra thrill of fucking up and not having Ctrl+Z to go back. Most of my traditional artworks so far consisted of working with pitch-black ink and markers, so this was technically the first time I had to pay attention to blending colours and controlling the water flow and the brushstrokes.

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21. The First Domur Blade

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Dude, I just looked at it! It looks so damn good. I still have the original saved 

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Coming back to digital painting after a long time!

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Trying FF XIV... for the third time! 

This is my character, Q’zalikko. I joined Mateus because I read somewhere that’s the place to go if you got too late to the party and can’t get into Balmung. Hopefully I’ll RP at some point! It would be nice to be part of an online community again. Given that I’m graduating in a couple of weeks and that my job allows me to pay for a subscription, I thought it would be cool to give this game another try. 

The girl’s a loveable dork. She’s poking a Catuar in the second picture for the sake of it. The third picture is just a quick sketch I drew. 

Cheers! 🏃‍♂️

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Yo Tumblr long time no see! I’ve spent the last months working almost exclusively on my thesis, so I didn’t have much time to draw. Fanart of Chloe, from Life is Strange!