#meatscribbles

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FINALLY I DREW THEM !!

This was inspired by a sketch from artist Michael Avon Oeming on the back of my copy of the 1st BPRD omnibus !

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Ik this is not a fandom relevant to this account at all but it IS relevant to the experimental nature of the art I post here and its not going on my main so 🤷

Anyway, turns out painting is a little harder when its human people with like. Clothes. And I want to gripe about it 😩

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I just saw your request for submitting Yautja Ocs, so I'm giving this a shot...

Out of the three I have, I choose Wy'ld, my big fierce tiger with a heart of gold beneath her rough exterior.

Here's a reference of both her hunting armour design, her colors and a bonus ref for how she looks liked in more 'casual clothes. As a fellow artist, I give you complete creative freedom to draw her with whatever look you want and have fun with it!!

THIS WAS SO FUN. I decied to try painting FOR REAL on this one, which I have historically avoided like the plague LMAO. I feel that I COULD have spent some more time on it, but I decided to call it here while I'm not completely sick of looking at it haha.

Timelapse under the cut!

I decided to do this instead of my earlier method of getting various stages and plastering them all over the post. Instead, yall get a whole timelapse!! As you can see I did the same as the last - I started with a sketch and just smeared colors over the top of it in the same layer until it looked good. I painted the background in a couple of separate layers, but the yautja is ALL one babey hoh boy I am surprised with myself.

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Trying to come up with a yautja oc but its LATE and my brain aint workin right.

I thought it would be funny if some guy encountered a yautja and was smart enough to figure out how they hunt but was also a monsterfucker and wanted them bad down horrendous style ya feel

So I might end up making a guy to go with him is what I'm saying LOL

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throws my daughter and her ugly dog at. you.

Her SHAPES were so fun !! Experimenting with semi flat painting/almost lineless?

Process/breakdown under the cut!

This is the rough sketch I drew overtop of- I wanted to focus on this character's swoopy round shapes bc I really liked that about the design!

I went on to paint the whole character in a single layer which is VERY NEW TO ME I usually depend HEAVILY on separate layers for coloring- not to mention I usually depend on LINEWORK! I also painted this with a default pen with super variable pressure sensitivity. Working with a hard brush like that I can't depend too heavily on soft textures to obscure my shapes/mistakes. In hindsight I should have gone in and tried to do MORE shading and lighting detail in this way to train my eye for values but alas I grew weary with details.

I went in then and added some fire - one layer behind and one in front (yes, falling back into depending on layers. Sue me lmao)

I had the fire idea from the beginning because the character sheet notes how Akrei'kha is very heat resistent!

I finished up by adding a color dodge layer for some harsher lighting using an orange color almost the same as the fire. Yes once again an instance of my cowardice to ruin the original art. If I had been braver I would have added this more intense lighting straight onto the first layer. Then of course I added the subtle gradient to the backdrop, the text at the top and my signature :)

In summary: I am proud of how this turned out, though I worry there was some detail obscurity/loss especially in the facial area. This character is very dark colored and sometimes I find it hard to keep details clear if I'm not careful.

I've never really done a process breakdown like this before and I'm not sure WHYY I felt compelled to, maybe because I'm doing all this in an attempt to learn and experiment. I worried it would be annoying but like.. I suppose nobody is obligated to click the 'expand' button and read the whole thing lmao

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Snoodles from magma today :))

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oh yeah i did this on my phone very quickly specifically to use as a pfp jskghddff

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Here ya go, this is my gal Zeen :)

Miss-zeen accomplished

haha. ha. get it?

Anyway I like her color patterns I had fun drawing her :))

I think these lil requests will be somewhat experimental so they won't all be in the same style or at the same polish level.

Also I may close my ask box if I get TOO many until I catch up.