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Hey is the captive prince a written story? I love your art.
Yes, indeed it is and thank you! It's a three book series by C.S.Pacat. Captive Prince Prince's Gambit Kings Rising Summer Palace (the short stories) As this is a story with difficult topics, please check the trigger warnings before reading.
Here is a thing i started last year and haven't continued (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ
Greetings!
Your artworks positively brighten my day. Is it possible to post a process video of your art? I'm learning how to do digital art and your work is a huge inspiration for me.
Thank you!
I won't be able to post a video, because i'm not drawing a painting in one go, but instead work on it over several weeks and switch between paintings, because I get bored easily lol.
I basically started 5 images at the same time after you all gave me suggestions this weekend.
But i'm honestly not doing anything different than all the people that already show their progress on insta and youtube. This video by Jackie Droujko is basically the process I go through as well
But here is an example for the bathscene. I start with an idea that I sketch( the different colors are to not get confused which bodyparts go where between the two characters), then I think about light situations in black and white to see how the light would get me the feeling that I want to achieve. In that case I thought Laurent's face in shadow would work better with his anger.
Usually I go right to my color sketch after that, but I felt like Damen was not working yet (the proportions were off), so I did a cleaner sketch to figure that out.
Then color time! I have no color theory ideas I just paint and see what works. I used a "hard color"/"vivid light" blending mode for the light (bluish color) here and "multiply" (beige) for the shadow and "screen" for the orangy glow on the edge. It really helps to experiment with those to see what works for your image.
Orenjikun on insta has a few little videos on how the photoshop blending modes work, if you are interested.
And then it's just rendering the forms until you are happy with the detail. But most of the work is done in those phases above =figuring out the base that you'll work with during rendering
I just realised that so much of the CaPri art I really love is from you... Haven't recognized it before but thank you so much 🥰
I mean the new one with Aimeric of course, then the one with Nicaise and the feather and Nicaise and the fork (Really love that one)... And Laurent asleep cuddled against Damen (This is just perfect)
I love the others, too, but those are my highlights 💕
Thank you!💕 💕💕 It's always interesting and sometimes suprising to see which scenes people like. The feather is actually an earwig It's a bit meaner towards poor Damen. (I know, hard to tell because the drawing is so tiny and quickly done.)
Hii! Your art is sooo beautiful!!! I love the atmosphere and the colors you choose, they are always perfect!! All the dynamic movements are soo beautifully captured by you and it feels like such a difficult thing to master! Maybe this has been asked before, but if it hasn't, how did you get so good at art? Did you go to art school or are you self-taught?
Thank you so much!! I did go to art school, but think it was pretty much a waste of time because the school wasn't very good. So it's mostly self taught with help of tutorials and online courses I suppose. I did meet a lot of great people outside of school that were a big influence on me though, so I will always be greatful for that. <3 I think theses days going the self taught route is much easier with all these resources available, than when I started. In regards to difficult things: It all seems difficult and it still is ( I still struggle a lot), but it really is just a lot of practising and actually trying to draw the things you find difficult. For example if you are scared to draw backgrounds and never do it, you will never get better at it, right? Because you haven't gone through the actual process of figuring out a structured way to do them yet. I was always scared to draw more than one person in an illustration in the past. But then I had to get over that fear because I needed to all of a sudden draw like 6 people in one illo for my job and that is how I learned it: By just doing it, struggeling at it but not giving up and it the end it turned out okay and everytime I got better at it. Not sure that was helpful...😅 But yeah struggle through it and be kind to yourself! Sometimes we have to draw 50 ugly drawings to get to that one pretty one. <3 (Sorry for the late reply, i never get notifications for these messages on my phone.)
I came here from Pinterest and I just want to say that the way you draw Laurent and Damen are so amazing, the angels are soooooo good and the lighting is actual perfection 😭.
Is there anywhere else you post all of your comics/fanart and stuff, in one place?
Also - any tips on male proportions?
Thank you so much! 😊 I only post on tumblr, insta and in case tumblr complains that it looks nsfw I will post that drawing on bluesky. (I had a twitter, but since twitter went the AI way, I removed all my drawing from there.) I know I post super rarely (apologies!) but I'm currently learning a bit of animation which takes all the free time I have. Hmm, not sure I have any tipps.... for a long time I mostly drew ladies and couldn't even draw men very well. Proportions can vary so much from man to man, so there is not the one correct thing. I guess make the shoulders a bit wider, the hips less so and the angles a bit more squarish. Otherwise I mostly draw them the same as the ladies as the anatomy is not that much different. You can look up "anatomy for sculptors" if you want to understand muscles and things like that.
I hope that helps!😊
Have you read Erha? (full title below) I haven't yet (it's next on my list) but apparently everyone who loves the Captive Prince trilogy loves this one too.
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
I believe someone recommended it already so it should be on the book recommendations list that I started in April. :)
My reading was actually very spare the past months, because I had so much on my mind, so I wasn't able to fully appreciate all the recommendations that were given to me.
I'm currently reading the Riehse Eshan series and even though I'm on book 3, some things do bug me about it, so I might switch to another book for now.
Hi! I just tore through the capri series and I wanted say how absolutely obsessed I'm with all your art and how well you capture each scene!! Like the composition?? The colors/lighting?? Their expressions!??? INSANE thank you <3
❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much!!❤️❤️❤️
I would like to ask if you are planning to read dark rise? you would love it, just like all capri fans
p.s. your latest arts is magnificent I was walking and screaming around the room
Once again I didn't see these messages because they are not shown on the phone app. T_T This is from April, whhhhaaaaa. Hi delafran! I have read Dark rise, even made a little illustration for it which you can find on this blog, but it's under a spoilertag. But as you might have noticed I'm currently a bit inactive on here, because some things changed in my life and I was focussing on that for now. But I hope I will get back to drawing fanarts of whichever book I'm reading very soon.
