Process - Blog Posts

I always like seeing what other Artists process is, so I thought I would share mine in case it would interest anyone (◍^ᴗ^◍) ♡ Sooooo this my crazy process lol: When I come up with story ideas I usually draw some really ruff thumbnails of expressions to try and remember what I'm going for. While I do this I usually have a vague idea for dialogue and I try to capture the visual moments I want to show. Often times this goes through multiple stages of revisions as I realise what "Not to show". Figuring out "What not to show" is always really fascinating to me. Pacing is such a big part of storytelling too and too much is not always better. The above drawing is an example of that. When I first thought up the idea I thought I would start with Marinette reading the magazine. Her eyes would go wide as she sees Adriens add (insert add) and she would get pissed off and have her dialogue from there. But after reviewing the pacing, I realized that I didn't need the whole beginning and I could start directly in the angry mood ♥

Please let me know if you find this interesting and I will post more process breakdown WIP's (˶ᵔᵕᵔ˶)♡

Such power

Comes with a price

Take me to Anne!!

You better come back alive Boonchuy!!

P.s. paizuri king would include any form of oppai loli character designed, i will out right steal other OCs to add them to the hero conquest

I do not care how obscure, either.

(I wish I could manually choose not to show it to a lot….)

- so I decided to post a process video, cause I can now (4/20/2018)

Ignore the notes to self

Sleeping Sun.  / i wanna try to draw this kind of scene for a long time , however, my perspective and light is so weak,there are so many mistakes. i can’t catch the feeling well,but i really try my best this time…..I SHOULD WORK HARDER!……..these are actually layers but not process?

will you upload progress pics of your art? e.g. from rough sketches till you colour it

I always use Overlay layer for my art.

Tone Layer + Overlay Layer

A flower shouldered fox, one of my species for the Calamity AU.

i love love love the way you paint back lighting!! do you have any tips/ a step by step for the way you do it?

ended up making a whole painting just to break it down and explain my general process for subjects lit from behind so heres that + a timelapse!

main thing for drawing anything with a strong light source behind is to make the main subject Darker and more desaturated to convey that the light is behind them rather than to their sides (face cant be properly lit if the light is behind). Also making the Main highlight the brightest hue in the image helps to intensify it. I tend to use teeth/eyes as a good comparison point

some people have a tendency to make the sclera white out of habit but darkening that+ the rest of the whites helps the image read as Darker compared to the brighter highlight

been posting timelapses of my process on my instagram ^^

I swear this is the last time I reblog this shvsbsgs but I managed to dig out some process pics from back in august! Since this post gained so much traction, i may make an ms paint tutorial in the near future- stay tuned ;))

Because, you are... a puppet.

Daniel.

process of making

Eye of the Broken

Some before stuff below

Base

Lines/Shading I think

Final Shading

(By the way this is Chip going insane in the sewers lol, got inspired by Chips lil red spiral eye thing in Chipacolypse Now)

Rem, I'm sorry if I'm intruding you but can you explain me the procedure of how you create the arts for the comics. They are amazing. ♡♡♡♡ I have always been a fan of your arts.....

thanks for your kindness. I’ll show you my method of working, it’s not said is correct, but it’s the one I like.

1. Write the plot. 

Luckily, I collaborate with @aoimotion, who’s the writer, so I don’t personally take care of this phase. But if you have a story in mind it’s always better to write a basic plot that will then help you to develop the story. Try to always be very flexible, ideas can always change and it’s up to you to choose the best solution for your story.

2. Story boarding.

these are the roots of your work. once the script is ready, I generally develop the whole storyboard, to establish the layout and the flow of the story between the various pages. 

3. Drawing

The funniest part, in my opinion. Once you are convinced of your story board, you can move on to the drawing phase. Also in this case, I generally prefer to draw all the pages before moving on to the definition phase. If the layout of the storyboard seems nice, you can rely on it, if in the meantime you had a better idea you can always modify the layout during the drawing phase. 

generally during this phase I also establish the shape, position and size of the baloons.

4. Inking

Well, here there is not much to explain. inking is not a mere “tracing”, it’s art, and the more you train, the more your work will gain in quality. you should have a lot of patience, it’s a long and boring phase.

5. Color, definition. this is the last phase, in which those, I color and I add shadows, lights and details. It’s fun because it’s quite “mind free” and allows you to indulge yourself according to your ideas and your aesthetic taste. But it requires a lot of time. And always remember to establish a point from which the light comes and hits the characters, so you can  have a clear idea of where lights and shadows should be.

it’s a work that requires a lot of time and patience. If you like comics, try not to be discouraged by the poor results or the time you lose. We all fall into mistakes and think that the time spent studying or sperimenting is never waste and it will be useful in the future.I advise you to observe a lot of the professional artists, get inspired and try to imitate them until you come to a style that you like and feel yours. And then I suggest you to read some page layout guides (it will be useful to understand the correct order of the panels and the meaning of the shots according to the various perspectives).

Got bored while doing work.

Decided to draw some Judy. The art book really helped me redo my style of drawing her.

I even did a tutorial, H’WOW! (Don’t follow  exactly everything here, develop your own style that suits you better, this is just a reference.)

Time to do Nick next… after I do my work.

Some people have been asking me what are the brushes (SAI) I use and… here they are. Since my English is SO poor I could not explain how I work with those brushes, so I decided to use only images, snif.

Mmm, in summary, these are the brushes I use and some examples of how I paint with them (my art is so inconsistent that my way of painting varies according to my mood, LOL). I’m really sorry for not being able to answer all your questions 😭 I hope this helps someone 💜

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Little tutorial on how to paint Ghibli style grass

A quick process gif of X-Key sleeping. Hope you like!

Bit of a wip hybrid here. I left the secondary digital shading on the line art to show you guys where it lies in relation to the original regions

A slightly new jacket for Lilith by Jonathan. Thank you guys so much for tuning in! 

Here’s a process version of a Jean Essex sketch Jonathan drew. 

Jonathan has been trying out some different brushes in photoshop so here’s a little process gif for ya!

Heres a process gif and the original pencil sketch Jonathan drew recently.