The Irregulars -- A Livestream Study Group

[Guru]

Which is what I usually do. I stopped using dodge and burn a while ago... but... idk. O.o Yea, I'll probably go with the overlay layer. lol

lolz.. I'm half asleep right now anyways. XD Which is why i'm not doing much of ANYTHING atm. XD

[Fieryfly]

I was busy doing more handstudies and my computer decided to shut itself off... Before I had saved... So now they are gone...

Not happy about that.

I did make a chibi yesterday xD But that is more like totally random.

[Sherlock Holmes]

Which is what I usually do. I stopped using dodge and burn a while ago... but... idk. O.o Yea, I'll probably go with the overlay layer. lol

lolz.. I'm half asleep right now anyways. XD Which is why i'm not doing much of ANYTHING atm. XD

I know that feeling, lol. (I feel kind of the same way today.. Didn't sleep well at all last night. >.<)

I was busy doing more handstudies and my computer decided to shut itself off... Before I had saved... So now they are gone...

Not happy about that.

I did make a chibi yesterday xD But that is more like totally random.

Oh, I hate when the computer/program derps and you lose whatever you were working on. Painter can be a fussy program from time to time so I've learned to save constantly. (It isn't as bad since Painter 12 came along, but Painter 11 was almost impossible to use. Crashed incessantly.. Lost so many pieces, which was why I mainly stuck to Photoshop.)

Cute chibi. (The eye could use a bit of refining, maybe -- looks a bit out of place with how smooth the rest of it is.)

[Hellis]

SH: The picture was all kinds of messy. First thing I've drawn on the new comp. It let me work on such a large scale I was overwhelmed. i'll see that I get a new, cleaned up version asap.


In the meanwhile. have an WIP.

[Sherlock Holmes]

SH: The picture was all kinds of messy. First thing I've drawn on the new comp. It let me work on such a large scale I was overwhelmed. i'll see that I get a new, cleaned up version asap.


In the meanwhile. have an WIP.

You always have some good character design coming through -- I always get a fair sense of personality from your character sketches/designs, which can be tricky to do. Nice job on that!

Shorten that face up some, though, it's looking a bit long right now:



(Drop the eyes down from the forehead area, they're a bit too high placement-wise, and shorten the nose a little bit.)

[Hellis]

Figure I throw up some old work that is far cleaner.

And somethings where I played around with colors

[Sherlock Holmes]

Figure I throw up some old work that is far cleaner.

Again, good sense of character to the sketches. Sense of proportion isn't too shabby, but dedicated anatomy studies definitely would help firm things up.

And somethings where I played around with colors

This doesn't count as color - there's barely any there. XD

And NEVER paint with black or white, unless doing a grayscale piece. It will mess up / sap the life out of any colors you put in proximity (or mix in) to it. Bad, bad habit.

A good base for local colors, but in a very, very rudimentary sort of way. (Like you're just sketching in a rough idea, but haven't added any real sense of light or rough form to give the idea of shape to anything.. Except for a bit on the head/neck of the character in the foreground. There's a bit of shaping going on there.) Again, avoid painting with black like the plague - it doesn't do colors any favors.

Do some still life work to help you get more comfortable painting in color. (It takes away the pressure of coming up with a subject matter and you can just focus purely on studying how the color and light are working. You'll learn a lot.)

[Scribz]

Hey - bad news guys. I seemed to have fucked my wacom usb cable. I now need to get another one.

Until then, I can't post and shit. :I

[Sherlock Holmes]

Hey - bad news guys. I seemed to have fucked my wacom ucas cable. I now need to get another one.

Until then, I can't post and shit. :I

D:

Ohnoez!

That sucks, but it's totally understandable.

[Scribz]

D:

Ohnoez!

That sucks, but it's totally understandable.

Yeah it kinda sucks :I