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OWO IT LOOKS SO PRETTY AAA

Edit: Forgot to add that I really like the style of rendering/shading you did

Last edited by Echowo (October 14, 2023 21:38:23)

SHEEEEEESHHHHH

That is GOOD.

Even tho you say it's lazy, I like it, as an avid lazy no-line-art artist myself.

Oh also btw I do think it is the right hand lol. I forget it a lot too.

Last edited by Time (December 3, 2023 00:26:00)

I forgot to say that I specifically like the reflection in the water!

And the airbrush looks nice, mmm texture

This is quite the late reply lol but I'm happy you guys like it! I'm pleased with how the piece turned out and I like the water reflection. Airbrush was just for shading and the reflection is with a new brush I'm testing out (does it matter in the end if I blurred the whole layer???) and the lighting on GGaD!Time. Really a lot of this is just seeing how to best use brushes and layer effects.
Something I wasn't sure about is if there was too much blue in the scene, and also I didn't want to take away from some lil details in the sky. Anyways, it was fun to do and a very instructive experience. Also @Time lol I'm sorry if there's design parts that aren't too accurate, I just sort of made up something to go on Time's leg since the ref didn't have that part visible bhfhf.

I had a crazy idea a few days ago, and it turned out to be kind of charming, I think. Usually I tend to focus on one or two characters at a time both when I'm drawing or devving...but what about the relationship between characters? How do they compare to each other in terms of design and art, and height? I wanted to find out and so I drew my F/DA AU characters all together to see how their heights look when compared to each other. 
Partly posting it here because with how much I think about the AU I'm probably going to talk about it at some point in one of my threads and people will be confused without a lot of context so now you can be confused with a mental image for reference :3

Two important things to note:
1. If one or more of the characters reminds you of my GGaD characters it's because it's them. But the AU version. So, not the exact same, but the idea is there.
2. I speedran this thing because the idea was too intense and I wanted to get it done before tomorrow. So excuse proportion errors (I can see a bunch) because this was made for the general vibe of the characters. And yes I used flats because if I'd shaded, even with a multiply layer, this would have taken much more time and I was dying to finish it.
But the general quality is decent. I worked with the designs I have currently [Dec 14, 2023] because for starters some of these are WIPs that I will likely tweak a bit or a lot in the future. As of rn, I mostly like how they look. It was also a reason why I made this. I wanted to see how my characters' styles and physical appearances compared to each other when directly side by side. As you can see, it's pretty varied, and I like that.

Now onto some thoughts for the character art, left to right in order:
Ianthe - She turned out much more "emo" than I want her to look, but I really like the way that color palette fits her. So this is something I'll look into fixing, lol. Her outfit was fun to do even if it looks slightly bat-ish with her veil cape and stuff. Ianthe is the solid tallest out of my side of the F/DA cast but she almost always wears heels so??? I tried to level that out in the drawing by giving her the usual heels and marking her height at the point it really is. 175 cm.
Nyoko - I love dressing her up in clothes but I feel I could've done better with giving her a more iconic outfit here? The coat is very plain. She's so pretty though. As a fun note, I love giving her hats (berets especially) because it reminds me of how I used to draw GGaD!Bixbite with hats to cover her cat ears. No cat ears here (unfortunately?) but the beret looks super cute on Nyoko. Her shoes don't really have heels so that's her real height. Minus the hat.
Dion - Purple looks good on him ngl. I don't think I have many things to note about his design since it's pretty straightforward, but I guess his shoes are fun to do since I don't draw a lot of shoes like that. It feels like his outfit is much more casual than the other characters' and I like that. 
Aisline - My favorite one to draw out of all my cast by far. She's so pretty and I really like the warm colors in her design, plus she pretty much always has an autumn vibe to her. It can't be seen from the front but her hair is in a bun. My note here is that I need to practice patterning for her clothes, and I like the thingy around her neck. Doesn't she look super nice and friendly? For some reason I feel she also looks a lot shorter than she is lol (especially at Dion's side). 
Assassin - From here on there's class names (sort of like code names Ig) so none of the following are the characters' actual names. And hopefully this is noticeable but their clothes are supposed to be much more fantasy-oriented than practical. Anyways, I had the idea of doing poses that sort of fit with the characters' attitudes, and it was going pretty well and pretty tame until Assassin came in like HAHA POSE! and she took up more space than I had planned but it's all good cause look at how happy she is. I like the way her outfit colors contrast with her skin and hair and overall I think she looks pretty good. She's the second tallest in the whole group.
Caster - The shortest one in the cast but it's because he's a literal child (if we don't count him Aisline is the shortest one). Also why are children's proportions so hard to do? Whatever, Caster is super cute. Just look at his eyes. When desgining him I worked with the idea of making him slightly androgynous but I'm not sure if the result really shows that? I like the colors though, especially the variations between parts of his outfit that are white and gray and then much darker. Once again, I need to practice patterning. But he's really cute. I could squish his cheeks.
Lancer - Finally, poor Lancer, I've redesigned her outfit so so so many times. And I might continue doing it, who knows? But she's so purple. I love her. She might also be the most recognizable out of all the characters? Something to note is that I tried to toy around with the idea of assymetry in designs (because I always make everything too symmetrical, WHY?) and that's why she only has one arm covering. But then the rest is symmetrical again. She looks nice at least, and I struggle with her shoes a bit because I know she doesn't like closed shoes but I also didn't want to design her with plain sandals so this is what I settled on for now. I still can't draw feet though. Also, is it just me or is her design a bit too purple? She has her hair in a braid idk if it's visible.

It was super fun to do this even if it's a rushed work. I think what I got from this is that I tend to stick to a single color for characters (most noticeable in Aisline, Assassin, and Lancer) and then their clothes are just variations of it. I like how it turned out but maybe I should work on giving more highlights with different colors. It was interesting to see the height comparison too because I tend to draw the characters by themselves and they look just fine, they look normal. But when placed next to others, the design changes slightly xD I noticed this with Aisline and Caster especially since they're so tiny and Caster just looks TINY TINY next to the others. Anyways, super cool! I forgot what else I wanted to say hehe but yeah.
 

It's been a while since I last posted something huh
Anyways this is something I did rq for a character appearance update for a server I'm in. His name is Valère (or Val for short) and he used to have his hair dyed black but he took the dye off and restyled his hair with another character's help. So I took the chance and did a fullbody of him for the first time.

I think I haven't done any fullbody renders since last year tbh. I had to use Medibang instead of CSP for reasons this time but I think I did pretty well even though I didn't have the custom CSP brushes available. I'm trying to figure out if this is a viable way to do shading. I originally tried for hard cel-shading but I find myself always falling back into the airbrush habit (and also I seem to be too shy when adding shading for some reason??? help???), so I guess I'll have to figure something out? Despite errors here and there I think the png result looks pretty cool. 
So yeah. Don't want to leave this thread without updates now and then. I'll see if I can pick up some other projects with Medibang and finally get back into the drawing habit again, but only time will tell.

NICE 👍

SpecterTheGreat wrote:

and also I seem to be too shy when adding shading for some reason??? help???

I've noticed that I'm also too timid when it comes to taking more risks in shading. I guess the only way to find out what works and what doesn't it to just take the leap and trust the process, you know?