#aedensolus

[spiderbaskets]

I cannot get over how much I love your art and character designs! If you don't mind me asking, how do you do your lineart? It's clearly there, but it's so soft and unobtrusive, even in WIPs. I love it!

Aww thank you so much!!! I will gladly share So firstly, for full color stuff I paint over my lineart and color it as well, and put it on something like overlay or multiply. That's how I get away with not having to do lineart-less shading (a pita)

For WIPs and sketches, I have thick lineart but I use an awesome brush I got from a colleague a long time ago, its origins are lost to time; It looks like this:

it's a very sketchy, fuzzy chisel-type brush.

This is what my lineart looks like with a standard ink brush compared to the sketchy one:

Additionally, I use a big canvas. Lineart always looks better shrunk down from a bigger document, like 3000 px to even 6000 for whole characters.

I can send the brush if you use Photoshop like I do :)

[theartingace]

So I see a bandwagon here and I'm diving face first onto it. CENTAURS. CENTAUR ANATOMY AND WEIRDNESS. HELL YES. I love flagrantly abusing my biology background to figure out their weirdness in excruciating detail, and I'm thrilled that you're using crazy horse genetics. Anyway I am very much here for anything and everything centaurs and needed to join the yelling about it.

YAAS! SO much yelling! Join us!!

I just have an extreme interest in biology, anatomy and physiology, but it just opens so many doors trying to figure out mythical creatures because you get to see what weird shit actual real animals have come up with as adaptations. Like, anything is possible in a system where platypus exists. Add in some magic to kick-start things and baby you could be getting to a biologically sound centaur!!

[copperbadge]

I didn’t want to spam the OP of the other post any more than necessary, so here, enjoy some of the newest Cats For America’s Libraries! 

@aemiliajane, @aedensolus, @ivy-n-ash, @nonolemog, I hope you like them! @metasyntacticvariable, I couldn’t find a name for your cat with a quick skim/search of your tumblr so I just said THIS GOBLIN CAT but if you send me their name I can go back and edit it in! 

And of course, Dearborn has finally figured out how to get up to the bookshelf, so I may be printing a companion poster to the one on my wall currently. 

Earlier Cats For America’s Libraries are here and here. 

[bethanyberg]

A Commission for the wonderful @aedensolus

[pallanophblargh]

Commission #3 for Inktober #7, for @aedensolus! Nearly ran out of room on this one. Pentel brush pen, sumi ink wash, with touches of red acrylic ink and Copic multiliner.