from painterly to cartoony
@Alwayssleepyfornoreasonatall
@millipede03
I'm tagging my cupfriends, I hope this works~~
I was drawing in my sketchbook the other day and my father noted that he really liked my work; then he didn't. he said, it was awesome, but he liked it better when they were just... lines.
my style is just so painterly. I didn't even use paint, I used brush pens, then smudged things together with putting dots a white sakura gelly roll and brushing them out with a colorless blender brush pen.
nowadays I was wacthing cartoon network's 30th livestream and I got motivated to try out a more... inked style. when there are just lines, colored. for some reason, it sounds scary to me. no chance to smudge out mistakes 😅 but... I really want to try.
@MemoryWriter11
Wow very nice! I've dabbled a little with brush pens but haven't gotten even close to this good with them! Great work, beautifully done :) I like the vibe too, spooky but beautiful and oddly comforting, lol!
@ThadSterling
glad you like it :3
they're Grim and an older Mandy from gaobam. I like the dance macabre and death and the maiden themes from art history, and they just fit well. recently I've seen an anime--actually, two versions of it, called The Vampire Princess Miyu (one is four-part, the other is 26, and both are vastly different from the manga). Miyu is not actually a princess, but a 姫, pronounced ひめ (hime), meaning lovely young lady. she's a vampire, yes, but she also has a sturdy and dirty job: to send shinmas / demons back to darkness from the human realm. both versions make the story to be quite different, but, in both, she eventually came across this very powerful shinma, Lava, who defeated her, but she also defeated him by having some of his blood, so, somehow, she enslaved Lava to be her teammate backup and protector in her battles, but their relationship over the years has become just naturally soulmate-like, as they both know sorrow, but, they keep on living, as they both know sorrow together. Lava hides in a dark cloak and a white mask, being ashamed of his defeat, and, in some versions, uses a scythe... lepk, it reminded me of them :3
sorry for my rambling >_<
I usually paint digitally and in a more painterly style rather, because I find making linearts to be difficult. when transforming to traditional media, I just couldn't restrict myself did what I knew. but, I have some sakura fineliners, and I do intend to practice doing linework.
I did the painting under with clip studio paint, I think it's my best work yet :3 I just adore these two, and I agree: spooky, but oddly comforting. feels so good to write them and draw them.
I think it didn't send it...? *tries again *
it still haunts me that in fifth to eighth grade there was this girl who could draw so well, so clean, while I took my time just smudging out my pencils with my thumb and tissues, resulting in just grayscale... messes. she always taunted me because of that, amongst many other things.
oh my. after I became an adult, I'm glad that I started drawing again. in the beginning, it was awful, again, but I was free. and I'm really glad that I managed to make something I both enjoy and like nowadays :3
it's still not showing up...?
https://ibb.co/XLrSBwY
from my original post, in that drawing, I first sketched it out with a mechanical pencil, uses brush pens, then hardened the lines with a black pen, a brown Pentel brush pen (which has a very small tip) and a pink Pentel brush pen, to make it more readable, because it just became a mess before >_<
@MemoryWriter11
Ugh YES, don't feel bad about rambling, there are a few points I want to respond to but quickly since I'm at work and on break: I can relate to the smudgy mess problem LOL, I've also had mixed results with the Prismacolor style markers, so I'm very impressed with this. I wasn't familiar with the source of the characters but I'm intrigued now. There truly is freedom in returning to it as an adult. I haven't finished my most recent projects but it's been eating away at me and too much of my free time is spent mindlessly playing video games even after they get boring. I have some blocks to get over I think, but overall I know I will advance past the point where I left off, which is maybe part of the reason I hesitate. Without being as obsessed with a perfectionist view that leads only to chaotic drawing output, a lot of stress, and little enjoyment, I know that I am capable of improving to a degree that I dreamed of when I was young. It's very encouraging to see others similarly picking it back up! I keep trying the link too but I'm not sure why it isn't loading :(
try to use a third party image uploader for images :/
I'm glad that you feel capable!! perfectionism can really get us on the other side of the horse. I think I'm too Hungarian with this expression: it means, doing a good thing, riding a horse, but doing it to the extreme that you fall of from the other side. nowadays I'm making progress with using my notebooks at all: usually I need a year to get the courage to use them... I'm a bit more strong for sketchbooks, but dotted and lined papers? oh no. this transfers to other aspects of my life, too. I really need to be working on it.
I like aging up characters in my head from my childhood. as if they've been growing up with me. I love being in my own world, imagining scenarios, where they just exist, making their beds, brushing their teeth. it comforts me somehow. it comes naturally, but I want to work on expressing my inner world, too. through writing and drawing.
@MemoryWriter11 Woah i love the style!!! Its really cool :D ! I tried multiple times drawing with brush pens/markers and failed each time lol!
@Camille7878
try doing an undersketch just lightly with a pencil, lay down the colors with the brush pens, then do some linework above with a pen / fineliner above. it can give a watercolor-y feeling to the weird places. hope that helps 🤔
@MemoryWriter11 Ooh okay tysm!!
@MemoryWriter11 That looks awesome!! Mad skills, that drawing gives me the vibes of a bittersweet ending of a love story 🌿🌱 love how you made the coloring btw
Wonderful work @MemoryWriter11