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slumberMore art that I've been doing lately. Still nowhere with my fic-writing mojo, although I signed up for a team at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
mating_games which means at least a 500-word thing every week \o/ buuuut that's about it, oops.
Ummm ArtRage has been great, but in terms of coloring I've been finding Photoshop easier to work with. I do love the way the oils work on ArtRage, but I'm not quite getting the hang of manipulating those. And I've always preferred to work with watercolors (like, you know, back when I was taking 6th grade art classes, lol) and the adjustment to digital is just kind of iffy for me.
Drew this for Lorraine//![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gamma_x_orionis. Used this as my reference. I don't understand how bodies work. Or how they should be proportioned. I also hate drawing hands but I'm pretty okay with how her fingers turned out.
This I drew for Allison//pinksonia. In hogwartsishome, where we are both Ravenclaws, each house has a ~mascot~ so on top of being a Ravenclaw and an eagle we're also Vikings. IDK, it's one of the HiH things I don't quite understand but it's all in good fun, so why not? (Hufflepuffs are Knights, Gryffindors are Pirates, and Slytherins are Vampires, in case anyone outside of HiH was curious.) Anyway, a few months back there was a Viking dollmaker going around and Allison made this to represent her Viking self, so, yes, you guessed it, that was my reference too. Someday I might learn to actually use references as references and not just copy everything I see, but whatever, I'm still learning. Or something. >.> I'm not as fond of her fingers here, but I really enjoyed coloring her hair.
And then yesterday I learned how to make vectors!
Well, not quite. Because you really kind of need Adobe Illustrator for that, and I just don't need it enough to justify a purchase. BUT there were a few Photoshop tutorials for how to make vector-like images, so I went and got my favorite image of Daenerys Targaryen from this season and did this:
It isn't the cleanest, and I tried to use the mouse for the Pen tool first, and then my tablet for the free-form Pen. I think I prefer the latter, especially since the former means a little bit of time for mastering anchor points and the manipulation of the bezier points, which, yes, I would eventually like to figure out, but look, I JUST found out WHAT they were yesterday. That's already a big step imo. Every time I tried to play with the pen tool before yesterday it has ended in tears. I'll take my victories where I can. XD
mating_games which means at least a 500-word thing every week \o/ buuuut that's about it, oops. Ummm ArtRage has been great, but in terms of coloring I've been finding Photoshop easier to work with. I do love the way the oils work on ArtRage, but I'm not quite getting the hang of manipulating those. And I've always preferred to work with watercolors (like, you know, back when I was taking 6th grade art classes, lol) and the adjustment to digital is just kind of iffy for me.
Drew this for Lorraine//
gamma_x_orionis. Used this as my reference. I don't understand how bodies work. Or how they should be proportioned. I also hate drawing hands but I'm pretty okay with how her fingers turned out.This I drew for Allison//
pinksonia. In hogwartsishome, where we are both Ravenclaws, each house has a ~mascot~ so on top of being a Ravenclaw and an eagle we're also Vikings. IDK, it's one of the HiH things I don't quite understand but it's all in good fun, so why not? (Hufflepuffs are Knights, Gryffindors are Pirates, and Slytherins are Vampires, in case anyone outside of HiH was curious.) Anyway, a few months back there was a Viking dollmaker going around and Allison made this to represent her Viking self, so, yes, you guessed it, that was my reference too. Someday I might learn to actually use references as references and not just copy everything I see, but whatever, I'm still learning. Or something. >.> I'm not as fond of her fingers here, but I really enjoyed coloring her hair.And then yesterday I learned how to make vectors!
Well, not quite. Because you really kind of need Adobe Illustrator for that, and I just don't need it enough to justify a purchase. BUT there were a few Photoshop tutorials for how to make vector-like images, so I went and got my favorite image of Daenerys Targaryen from this season and did this:
It isn't the cleanest, and I tried to use the mouse for the Pen tool first, and then my tablet for the free-form Pen. I think I prefer the latter, especially since the former means a little bit of time for mastering anchor points and the manipulation of the bezier points, which, yes, I would eventually like to figure out, but look, I JUST found out WHAT they were yesterday. That's already a big step imo. Every time I tried to play with the pen tool before yesterday it has ended in tears. I'll take my victories where I can. XD
