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Rinceless II Florinel Stefan Niculai 20 years old II art student II in Cluj-Napoca :) failing at life rly enjoys: art, nature, painting outside, rainydays & quiet places

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Developing a character

///How I develop my comic book characters

haha - dead inside

Hi there! In this post I’m going to explain the process that I’m going through when developing characters for my comic book. I’m gonna use my character ‘Styx’ as an example along the whole post :)

//1   I anchor myself around the things I enjoy

I find it easier to anchor myself around the things I like. For this one character I wanna go for an camper/scout-ish kind of look since spending time in nature is one of my favourite activities. Implementing elements related to the subject that you choose is an extremely important aspect that you always wanna consider.

//2   I stop myself from overdoing it

You wanna give your characters some features(both body and clothing features) that describe their personality. You’ve got to think this through a little tho. No one will have the patience to ‘read’ the design of a character if it’s overwhelmingly detailed. One thing that can help, is limitting yourself in the design phase and consider if the elements that you’re implementing are really helping the readers understand the substance of the character or not

+TIP:  I usually draw my characters in different day to day activities, This helps a lot with understandig the character’s personality/reactions.

//3  I usually base my characters on real people

This can help a lot in designing the character in all ways. 80% of my characters are based on my friends and people that I interact with. I feel like being genuine in developing a character is one of the most important things you wanna achieve and the easiest way of doing that is by describing the people that you already know and spend time with.

Here are some characters inspired by my friends’ appearances and personalities:)

TIP: Stay true to your characters and who you are as an individual and try expressing that in your work!

Finale tip: Hope for the best! haha

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Moon&sun

This one is a small personal project that I’ve done last year, creating two digital portraits with the aim of achieving two contrasting pieces in order to resemble the differences between the light of the moon and the sun’s.

The idea behind them was to point out the different effects that light can have on a portrait.

As always, I’m playing with the composition, the contrasting palette of colors as well as the different textures and brush sizes that the program has to offer.

Program used: Photoshop

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Sketching at 4AM can be fun

// I usually find myself drawing at unusual hours and this time I drew in my sketchbook some semi-realistic fan-art characters. I really enjoy drawing/painting late at night or early in the morning because I can concentrate better on what I’m doing. The world stops and I start doing my thing(whatever that means).

So, here are the 2 pieces that I’ve made on my sketchbook using graphite pencils and an usual eraser.

fan-art - Young Genji - Overwatch

fan-art - Hanzo - Overwatch

So.. what do you guys think about my habit? Is it a good or a bad one?

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From Traditional to Digital

Although I like drawing traditionally, I feel like painting in a digital medium gives me a lot of advantages. I started mixing the traditional and digital techiques for some time and I quite enjoy the results that I’m getting.

So, here it is an example of a colored sketch made directly on my sketchbook that later I altered in Photoshop.

(scanned version of the drawing)                 (final result after using Photoshop)

After overpainting the scanned version and using some lighting effects i obtained this:

After that, I gave myself the liberty of doing whatever I wanted. At this point I’m just going with the flow and playing with the colors. I changed the color theme to a rather warm one in order to pop up the shadows of the character.

The final touch was made by casting a powerful shadow on the right sight of the character and adding some other color effects.

What do you guys think about mixting those 2 mediums? Are you using it as well?

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Sneak peek - The Falling

//’The Falling’ is one of the comicbooks that I’m working on at the moment and I wanna share with you a little part of this project. The story behind this comic focuses around the main character, a kid, that got lost in the forest. The action takes place in a mystical forest where spirits and monsters are part of the real world.

So, here it is the cover for the comicbook (still unfinished) :

The story begins with the main character who wanders off into the forest at night, chasing a tiny animal spirit. Little does he know what he’s gonna find out about this place once getting lost. Made you curious, ha!?

I’ll keep you posted ^^ :)

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Hi there!

My name is Florinel Stefan Niculai (I go online as Rinceless), I’m an 20 years old aspiring artist, studying Graphics at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca.

I’ve always felt that being an artist is what I’m meant to do, so... here I am trying my best in achieving that.

I’m originary from the seaside of the country even though I usually can’t stand the sun and the heat that comes with it:). and also allergic to chocolate (but that won’t stop me from eating it)  I LOVE IT

Things i like: exploring, painting/sketching outside, quiet places, traveling, bonfires, spending time on my rooftop

I’m starting this blog to share with you some of my works and my experiences along the way of hopefully becoming the artist that I’m trying to be.

Looking forward to connect with all of you ^^  See ya’ soon