Month: August 2021
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Pink kitten
A portrait of Aftyn in a cute, pink kitten outfit, done at the request of an avowed fan of her ear licking videos. This is my first painting after a week of just sketching, and I think it turned out great. During that week, I was developing a better eye for converting a reference to…
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Earth Spirit
Sketch portrait of Aftyn‘s Earth Spirit of the Elemental friends. Earth has a fun potted bonsai that makes her segment of the video something special. I was feeling pretty low after the Fire and Water struggles coming into this one, and my initial sketch was straight-up shabby. I refused to let that stop me, though,…
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Water Spirit
Sketch portrait of Aftyn‘s Water Spirit, one of the Elemental friends. You’d think the simplicity of the pose would make it easier to do, but the opposite turned out to be true. I struggled to find landmarks and couldn’t get the sketch to settle on something that looked like her. In the end, I gave…
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Fire spirit
Sketch portrait of the Fire Spirit, from Aftyn‘s Elemental friends. She’s a bit of a pyromaniac, a trait I suspect is shared by Aftyn herself. Getting the lighting to look right in this picture took a surprising number of false starts. My rough guide to shadows, with lightly hashed blobs, looked pretty good to me,…
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Air spirit
Sketch portrait of Aftyn‘s Air Spirit from the Elemental friends video. The Air Spirit is my favorite of the characters from that video. She blows on the microphone and that… does something to my scalp. I think I’ll do all four characters in this style, each with this monochrome color scheme. I’m really happy with…
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Touch me in the morning
Sketch portrait of Reddit user /u/DforDance‘s magnificent pose here. I tried using a vertical hashing scheme here. I don’t know about this one. I can’t say it’s in the success category. I tried several different renditions of the shade layer, but it isn’t especially good. But, you roll with the punches. Those hands look pretty…
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Kitten ears and sunlight
Sketch portrait of /u/AmeliaStoner for /r/DrawMeNSFW. I love the pose. I hope the translucency in her bra comes across, but that’s definitely a hard thing to capture without color. I tried out a rougher version of shade lines here, less uniform than your usual cross-hatches. I think the hash placement is decent this time around,…
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Danny Avidan
Ink sketch of Danny Avidan, AKA Danny Sexbang, of Ninja Sex Party. The reference is a really great concert photograph by Matt Henry. He’s a fun, flamboyant figure at the front of an excellent, nerdy band. I’m still trying to work through hatching for shading. Here and there I get some good results, but I…
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Indy
Sketch portrait of Harrison Ford as the iconic Indiana Jones. I went much heavier on shade than I have ever done in a sketch before. The blue color gives it a kind of ball point pen look. I’m not going to be kicking Emil Ferris off the book stands any time soon, but I kind…
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Babish
Another sketch and practice with cross hatching, this time of Andrew Rea, AKA Babish. He’s a chef on YouTube, and an inspiration for my growth as a cook over the last year. When I do these, I typically will do a very rough (and horrible!) sketch just to figure out the gross shapes. Then over…
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Happy Sunday
I drew a portrait of /u/thelovelywildflwr for /r/DrawMeNSFW. I decided to practice sketching today, and used a new cross hatching style. For someone who struggles with confident line work, the bold outline and parallel hashes was a valuable challenge! When I was trying to decide what to do with the environment, realism wasn’t really working…
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My wife is a gangster
A long time ago, I was an avid importer of DVDs from other world regions. Some of my favorite imports were South Korean movies. They spun a series of huge hits: Shiri, Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Save the Green Planet. Discovering those first hand required churning through piles of less successful flicks. My Wife…
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Worst kitten
Worst kitten got her hands on a camera again! I’m getting more confident with these cartoon renders. This one was a challenge, though. I tried freehanding through the sketch stage. Individual parts fit together fine, but it was riddled with distortions. That keeps happening to me with full body sketches. I need more practice at…
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Sloth in a bucket
A few years ago, Dani took a trip to Costa Rica as part of an intensive Spanish-language immersion course. During her stay she met this adorable little rascal, being tended to at one of the sloth rescues. It’s a baby sloth who likes to hang out in a beat-up old paint bucket.
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The restaurant across the street
Back in the old Midway building, there was always a restaurant on the opposite street corner. For much of that time, the restaurant was the famous Hot Doug’s, a gourmet hot dog restaurant that attracted lines around the block, and was documented in a book and a movie. But there were other restaurants in that…
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Melora Creager
With a little experience under my belt, I wanted to return to some of my early painting failures, to see if I could get my arms around them. This is a monochrome portrait of Melora Creager, leader of my favorite band, Rasputina. I’d link to them, but they basically no longer have a web presence…
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Fall clothes haul
I wanted to revisit some of the subjects that I failed at capturing when I switched to Procreate on the iPad, including this one from Aftyn‘s Fall cloths haul. This time, I went with the cartoon rendering style, which felt like the right choice for the “roundness” of the pose. I got a little abstract…
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A girl and her cat
Portrait of Aftyn Rose from the video “Just a girl and her cat”. I got a little experimental with this one. I’ve been pushing my boundaries with respect to sketch and line layers, painting in details, etc. Add to that my first time painting a cat — a black cat in a dark room, no…
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Eileen Bradford
Dani suggested her grandmother as a painting subject. She was a pretty lady, and apparently responsible for Dani’s “level headedness”.
