Did you know ? I regularly find stories so niche that the communities around are close to nonexistant
And I find it a bit unfair because they are often extremely cool, and funny, and clever, and... well, forcing my mom to watch doesn't really satiate the need to share a passion
But...
A fandom is alive as long as there is a fan, right ?
I love that old webseries named Damned, and this is my humble contribution to its fandom :
I'm also pretty sure this is the only video ever done in english on that subject lol
(This was made for a presentation night in an insanely cool discord server, but I post it here because it was a lot of work to just be forgotten in a dusty corner somewhere)
Recently, I discovered a cool narrated let's play about Return of the Obra Dinn (link in french but the caption translation is okay, if you're curious), and I had to draw the inspector
Translation : The only truth in that bloody job, is that everyone is DEAD
They finished the series, so here's some more drawings !
You can’t see this side of the Obra Dinn from this angle, so this means it was a very good exercice in perspective and also a horrible pain in the ass proportion wise
Translation : *undefinable noises of bureaucratic rage*
Recently, I discovered a cool narrated let's play about Return of the Obra Dinn (link in french but the caption translation is okay, if you're curious), and I had to draw the inspector
Translation : The only truth in that bloody job, is that everyone is DEAD
This is an act of piracy, surrender your grains ⚔️🐔
(This is one of the family hens, Plume. Plume has no shame nor fear, so you have to be very careful when you open a window because she will find a way to be just in front of your feet to reclaim food)
Feel free to tag yourself and your fellow artists and show off what you’ve made! Events like these are only possible because so many of you decided to join and add to it :]
Again, thank you all for joining! This was a ton of fun and seeing peoples active drawing progresses was so nicel
And I tag @zarvasace (I want to know how you do such gorgeous papercut-like drawings) and @lennsart (something with Fable maybe ? I love how you draw her)
No pressure of course ^^
RULES!!!!!
- If you are tagged (and want to participate) you share your creative process for one of your pieces (or as many as you like!).
- How you share your process is up to you, it can be a timelapse video, or various screenshots throughout the process with some commentary, or a tutorial if you like!
- tag at-least two other artists whose process you'd like to see
- you can suggest a specific piece alongside the tag but the artist can choose to share something else instead if they like.
I will do it with a relatively old piece, since it's the most representative of how it works when I do things correctly :
It's a pretty complex one, so the first thing I do is the ugliest and sloppiest sketch possible. It helps dedramatise. Also, if the composition works with potatoes and stickmen, the composition will work with the finished linework
Next, I lined the characters, then the environment on different layers. Usually I don't separate, but here it was easier since the architecture is complex. I used references and my general knowledge of flaming gothic architecture to have something that looks believable. Perspective is tricky, so as long as it looks okay, I’m not overthinking it.
Next, I add shadows. The goal is to have contrast in the important parts of the drawing. It’s also useful for the subtext : here the heroes are bathed in light while the villain is plunged in darkness. Usually I already know where I want the lights and shadows, when I start a drawing.
Then it’s colors. I find it a bit tedious when it's just coloring between the lines, but here there was not a lot of room for variation if I wanted clarity. Here I kept the background white because light was going to be so important, but in general the first step in my coloring is a colored background, to choose colors that go well with the dominant color of the drawing.
At that point, I was fed up so I used a trick to go faster : gradient maps. I used two or three of them, superposed with various opacities, to have that golden glow.
I added some atmospheric light in front of the window, and outlined my characters with a clear color to highlight their shape
I still wasn't completely happy (the middle felt a bit empty), so I added a pillar on the foreground
Then I added the text, and a few other things to integrate it to the image (the top down corner didn't have enough contrast for it to be legible, hence the banners)
Of course I usually don't do things "correctly", my process is more often than not a real mess full of adjusting, especially for the color :D
For different styles, I simply skip entire steps or do things in a different order
Without a line, I tend to carve out details from rough color blocks, usually lighter than the background
For watercolor-like, shadows and intensity comes from layering brushstrokes so it’s very different as a process
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