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Halloweentown Sora in vintage Halloween colors, for Halloween!
Happy Halloween, I made a thing.Ā
Iāve done very little for Halloween this year, for a variety of reasons (mostly lack of funds and some chronic health problems) so I made this for myself.Ā And then uploaded it too late to get in time for Halloween.Ā
My laptop screen is busted and now I have to draw on paper like some kind of a savage.
Kairi, Sora, and Riku are best friends forever! ā¢ Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.
New t-shirt at Redbubble!Ā
And also at Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4564371-kingdom-hearts-best-friends-forever?store_id=203790
Reblob for the weekend crowd.
Kingdom Hearts III Bring Arts Pirates of the Caribbean Sora is now available for pre-order on AmiAmi for Ā„6,600 (about $59) and will be released in August!
RIP @destiny-islanders wallet
My wallet understands
Goddammit, this is adorable and I need it.Ā
Kairi, Sora, and Riku are best friends forever! ā¢ Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.
New t-shirt at Redbubble!Ā
And also at Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4564371-kingdom-hearts-best-friends-forever?store_id=203790
Kairi, Sora, and Riku are best friends forever! ā¢ Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.
New t-shirt at Redbubble!Ā
Yeah, Iām still not over KH3.Ā How cute is Xionās new outfit?Ā I would wear the heck out of that.Ā
Sora, my beautiful disaster child.Ā KH3 gave me Feelings.
Yasuo Åtsuka (mentor to Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata) short lecture clip on character design
courtesy of @AnimeGolem on twitter
Me: I need to draw stuff for my portfolio. Also me: (draws this instead)
HEY BIRD FANS!!!Ā I liked this sketch enough to clean it up and put it on a t-shirt/stickers/whatever else Redbubble sells.
Available with my clumsy hand-drawn text: https://www.redbubble.com/people/erinstilwell/works/36454491-marshmallow-bird?asc=u
And without: https://www.redbubble.com/people/erinstilwell/works/36455290-marshmallow-bird-textless?asc=u
OR you can grab it on Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4061698-marshmallow-bird On sale for 14$ for the next two days!
It's Betrayal: Legacy night and I'm entertaining myself by designing a colonial ghost girl between my turns.
Me: I need to draw stuff for my portfolio. Also me: (draws this instead)
HEY BIRD FANS!!!Ā I liked this sketch enough to clean it up and put it on a t-shirt/stickers/whatever else Redbubble sells.
Available with my clumsy hand-drawn text: https://www.redbubble.com/people/erinstilwell/works/36454491-marshmallow-bird?asc=u
And without: https://www.redbubble.com/people/erinstilwell/works/36455290-marshmallow-bird-textless?asc=u
Me: I need to draw stuff for my portfolio. Also me: (draws this instead)
Hello everybody this is an appreciation post for azure jays
Look at this big olā richly-colored corvid
Look at him trying to eat a hugelarge seed, too large
Oh nevermind! He found a freaking donut instead
This one looks like itās really interested in your conversation
And this one is very round :0
Here are some with friends! Borbs of a feather birbing together!
Theyāre pretty much like crows but like, blue?? Hello? What else do you need??
They know how to use tools and everything, they like to play with objects, theyāre such inteligent friends!
What a goddamn beauty of a birb. 10/10 best boys I love azure jays so much
Itās impossible for me to pick a favorite bird, but this might be my new favorite bird.
Trying to draw buildings
yo hereās a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellisā¦ use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town youāre trying to drawā¦ then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! Itās simple & fun!
Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I canāt recommend it enough.
Thereās a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you donāt have to build everything from scratch.
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This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every time I see it come around.
We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldnāt even dream of, but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of using it.
Hereās the missing part of this tutorial:
How do you populate your backgrounds?
Well, hereās the answer:
If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to that environment.
The examples above are great because they show how to use the software itself, but each one just kind of āplopsā the character in front of their finished product with no regard of the personās relation to their environment.
How do you fix this?
Well, hereās the simplest solution:
This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and comic artists alike when theyāre quickly planning compositions. Itās simple and it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background and an environment.
From Blacksad (artist: Juanjo Guarnido)
From Hellboy (Mike Mignola)
Even if your draftsmanship isnāt that great (like mine), people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they currently reside ā not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.
Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.
Great comments and tutorials!
Iām a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!
Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume itās reasonably easy to learn. If youāre interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!
Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple āCATāĀ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)
The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this - Manga Studio, Design Doll - but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.
By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!
Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.
We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!
Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!
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Look at this amazing addition! This is fantastic!
Worked on this girl for 9 months. Now this new music video comes out and sheās immensely popular, arguably one of the most popular characters in the LoL universe.
Donāt get me wrong, Iām really glad sheās a huge hit, itās super exciting to see so many people love the character design and the gameplay, and know that I contributed directly and significantly to the behind-the-scenes engineering that makes it all work. Itās validating.
But itās also so fucking melancholy to know I did so much work and put in so much time for such a shitty company, run by shitty people, and the reward I got for it was unemployment.Ā
I threw a lot into this character. I cried at work. I started getting panic attacks, which Iāve never gotten before.Ā I developed persistent heart palpitations from the daily overwhelming stress and had to go to the hospital (this is true, seriously.) I basically dropped all my friends outside of work. My manager (and his manager!) lied to me constantlyĀ to keep me working. They said I was doing a great job but to keep it up. Donāt worry, itās going to turn out great, and itāll all be worth it in the end ā recognition, a raise, probably a promotion in short order. They promised me the world. When she was finally finished, I didnāt even get to go to the release party, they just walked me out.Ā
I remember a quote from my last day, it sticks out in my mind: āI know you realize this is really hard for me,ā my manager said. Yes, in the end, when he awkwardly informed me I didnāt have my dream job anymore ā or any job at all ā and then stared back at my shell-shocked face, my thousand-yard stare, the only thing he felt was sorry for himself.
She launched with no major bugs and was considered a technical success. Doesnāt matter. Get the fuck out.
I donāt know how I feel. A weird sensation of pride and intense bitterness. I did a good job; at least, I think I did. Unfortunately, internal validation is the only kind Iām going to get.
Everyone reposting KDA should see this. Riot has successfully distracted everyone into forgetting their culture of sexism, exploitation, and toxicity mere months after it was all revealed.
Look, I get it. Akali is EXTREMELY my type. Itās obvious how much love and care was put into her development. But it makes me furious to see all the free advertising that Riot is getting from people who I thought would know better.Ā And now? One of the people who is arguably responsible for all that free advertising? Whoās work is undoubtedlyĀ making Riot hundreds of thousands of dollars a day? Who was overworked to the point of near breaking? They get nothing. WORSE than the scant bit of credit that most devs can get in a big company like Riot. They got let go.
Fuck Riot Games.
One thing that I thought really sucked a lot is that the production company who made the KDA video isnāt even credited. They credit a lotĀ of other people on their videos, usually, but the actual animators of the video are hidden; almost a lie by omission. At best itās a honest mistake, at worst itās sneakily trying to pass off the video as something made in-house when itās not. :(
One of these days Iām going to do some proper Rusty Lake fanart, but Iām going to do a lot of things one of these days.Ā Trying to work through an art slump right now.
