Hello Articus owo

I like the lineart uwu

Is she albino or is it one of those "just so happens" type color pallettes owo?

Okay so I had to check your previous art for this because I wasn't sure but I like the way you designed her eyes! I think the pupil is a nice touch to the goat(???) aesthetic and yeah she looks cool. I like her :] smile.
I'm also not sure how you rendered this or what brush you used for lineart because I think the finished image looks good. (Is it just me or does her staff look kinda mechanical?)
Overall I like the design because of how it fits with the description you wrote. Even though simple by "fantasy standards", it works well.

Time art drop

Lowkey when I read Cosmia's form I immediately thought of Silvis here. She has sorta the same thing going on lol, just more being unlikable than likeable

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Hidden Sails Spoilers/ continuing that last comment toward Echo

Oh, and she got caught. And she did the experimentation for literally the fact she was just curious not some higher reasoning or greatness attached to it

Time wrote:

Hidden Sails Spoilers/ continuing that last comment toward Echo

Oh, and she got caught. And she did the experimentation for literally the fact she was just curious not some higher reasoning or greatness attached to it

honestly slay, me too fr

Echowo wrote:

honestly slay, me too fr

...what do you exactly mean by... "me too"?

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Testing my brushes and some backgrounds.

I wanted to add more, especially around the idea of something else more into the sky or like an artificial structure, but I decided not to or didn't really know what to put.

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Thank youu

I like the clouds, but I do think the mountains need some work. It's pretty simple stuff so far.

I predict it tasks like candyfloss or the like.

Ok now actual commentary:

Work on Hidden Sails or make a Limbus OC?

Limbus OC (I blame Specter for this one lol)

Meet Eleanor! Most of her character is actually still a WIP (Backstory and all that) but it's been really fun creating her so far. I've been thinking of maybe cooking up another character as well.

Anyways, I actually never really do this sorta stuff, because I usually don't like directly interacting with another story's world in such a direct way, like creating a character that would be seen to be apart of the main cast. Nevertheless it was fun to see creating a character and seeing how they'd fit into the world.

I decided to take this time to double up and do a little art study of the main artist of Library of Runia and Limbus Company, nai_ga. It was really interesting seeing how it goes.

Notes:
- I like how he draws his hands (boxes for fingers) I think that's because I do the same lol.
- Face was pretty easy to draw. Typical anime face with a nib for a nose. Though female characters have very exaggerated eyelashes. Oh, and something to note. I never noticed this except on a few really pale female characters, but they also have a little blush too.
- Why does he make legs for his characters so long 😭. It may not look like it in the final product, but I had to really STRECH the legs out to get something comparable to his art style.
- He definitely at times feels more of a character artist over a background artist. Even though I've seen good backgrounds by him, it looks like in most project moon works he places more effort in the characters. Which makes sense because this is a game about characters not backgrounds. I drew up Eleanor's background in like 20 min, but if I spent some more time I could fully emulate one of nai_ga's backgrounds (not the super good ones mind you, just the normal ones)
- On that note, he has a very specific way of panting backgrounds too. Like with lots of boxes and weird textures.
- From what I was doing, it seems he also knows COLOR THEORY and LIGHTING (gasp). I really need to pratice those more... side note it seems for most of his lighting and shadows for the Limbus company promo art/main character sprtes. He decided to use GREEN. Which is cool because most people just default to purple or use a multiplyer later. I guess it shows to know your color theory because I feel if you know that stuff, you can create more intresting lighting/color palletes/rendering.
- How this dude colors is really interesting to me. It's also really hard to replicate. I think I failed in fully replicating his lighting and rending style by a lot. His tend to be really sharp. My rendition in comparison was much more timid and soft when it came to rendering and lighting. I'd like to learn to be more bold with my lighting, because I really like Limbus's rendering and coloring style a lot.
- It feels like for both coloring and lighting, he uses really specific brushes (that I'd love to hunt for)

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This is making me tweak out I'm all done with the art and stuff and then I get tutorials on my feed that deal with light and values bruh wouldn't that have been a little bit more helpful it it showed up a bit earlier?

Thanks! Good to hear that my art is evoking a feral emotion and has good compasition.

Also side note I was lowkey tweaking cuz you couldn't zoom in on the image in further detail but I changed the link to now you can zoom in if you click on the image

Also I forgot the eye shadow thing that nag_ai has on his characters (I was wondering why her face look a little bit odd when comparing to the refrence arts)

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Ha, guess you'll have to up your game indeed. I was originally planning just a standard fullbody in my style but I just decided to try something new out instead. It took me a while scrolling thru Clip Studio Paint for the proper text, but the font was called Bahnschrift SemiBold Condensed.

No worries honestly I just sometimes need to work on something else other than Hidden Sails every now and then

Yeah how the artist uses really broad strokes when texturing which is an interesting style. Though I've seen some art pieces where you can just see random brushes being used and it (to me at least) almost feels like patchwork 💀. Though don't get me wrong, when he really focuses in, they can be really nice. Plus I sometimes like the weird texturing. It makes things stand out.

I was just trying to somewhat replicate the backgrounds for the Sinner's promo art. I don't think it's the same quality as the backgrounds, but they are good enough. If I wanted to do a full recreation or smth, I'd probably have to add more layers of brushstrokes and stuff for sure. As to the ghosts, I just ended up using a specific brush for them I didn't think them as glitching, but now that you put it that way, I can see it, and I like the idea too.

As to coloring clothing, no I just used normal layers. No multiplying or anything like that. That's all. I wanted to get a read on the artist's coloring theory. But as I mentioned, I think I just need to be a little bit more bold with highlighting light and dark, and it'll end up looking similar enough.

Yeah you're right on the blade being retractable. She's also supposed to have a prosthetic leg but ofc you can't see that with pants. As for the dark lines under her eyes, yeah they're supposed to be there but it's just you can't really make it out as well from afar, you know?

Yeah PMoon's character sprites are known for having quite the long legs. I hear it's even a bit of a joke in the community. It's really apparent with a certain character in Library of Runia and for that there's a lot of jokes revolving around that topic with him. I guess people don't really notice it because we see the characters from the waist up most of the time. You did mention the longcoat really hides the legs, but I'm also guessing if everyone has long legs, it's not as apparent. Even if they are very long, I agree that it for some reason doesn't feel out of place. It only did so when I was drawing them.

Thanks! I wanted to replicate the character promos when they were first announced. Though it's sorta hard to do that in text form when the source material is in video form. (I also forgot to add the EGO name but that's fine that still wip or whatnot). But yes all managers do take note.