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"The Promise of The Calamity"

(coloring experiment)

lesson learned: if your values are good, you can really (mostly) do whatever the fuck you want with your colors

eeeaaahhhhhh but the malice looks too dirty to me

no overlay layers, only grayscale + base colors:

process (grayscale) below cut ↓

source (youtube screenshot):

i added the tip of the right hand because he looked too much like this guy doing this pose without it

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values study

(found out the hard way this is a bad example to do values study on. why did i decide to do this. i regret not doing the gesture session before starting this today)

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whatever i hope i've captured his assyness well enough

reference image source: age of calamity cutscene on youtube — you know which cutscene

time took: 5~6 hours ᯅ̈ᯅ̈ᯅ̈ᯅ̈

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eeeeaaaahhhhhh this took me 3 days to make

beat

every drawing process of this piece were high level challenges to me

matching the level of detail AND UPPING IT was a pain BUT the results were totally worth it to me

2018: she don't speak 🥺

2025: let em speak!! which means i can and will draw hands and the body properly now

note: i haven't drawn anything properly since 2018 until april 2025 bc schooools and life but as of now currently i have found the time to do stuff again ☺️ and now i have been practicing to art for about a month and a half now ✨️💪

after seeing through the end of it i thought this was also postworthy:

i am the master of colors effects (joking)

process below the cut ↓:

pose and rough sketches: 2h

grayscale shading: 2h

i first shaded in different light directions separately, lowered each of their opacities to 40%~60%, then merged them into a single shadow layer like below

putting down base colors: 2h

details and effects: 8h?? ᯅ̈

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AAAAAAAAAAAA

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i know what i gotta do next

i gotta do two-tone value study of faces and glasses and dresses then process-variation study a more professional artist's work

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Ooooooo

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i am an e

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