Category: Aftyn Rose
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Dangerous invitation
This is my second fully original painting. I pushed myself into some challenging territory for it. I set out to make a painting that features Aftyn‘s Dangerous Succubus on a bed in a space filled with flames, beckoning us to come to her. I started with a rough pose idea from a drawing by Alex…
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Sleepy kitten
Hell yeah! This is a painting of Aftyn Rose, based on one of the most artistic of her Instagram photos. I have long wanted to do it, but hesitated due to confidence issues around the complicated lighting and shadows. But when I set out to work through my issues with painting brushes, a reference with…
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Playful in green
This is a portrait of Aftyn Rose, based on a reference that is important to me in a way that made it hard to do justice. This is attempt number four. I have tried to come at this over a span of many months. Each time I try, my style is different, my intentions are…
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Happy Friday (painted)
A portrait of Aftyn Rose, looking comfortable and beautiful on her deck. This time, the painting succeeded. As I noted on the previous attempt, I painted this version without the use of a sketch. No guidelines, no Loomis head or whatever, just shapes. The dark mass of hair goes about here. Wait, too much. Carve…
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Happy Friday
I decided I should add some Aftyn portraits to my current painting series. Like the last one, this painting was a failure. What you’re seeing above is the sketch I made before going to color. It’s a nice sketch, but the painting was never able to achieve a similar level of quality or likeness. It’s…
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Ahegao
Another portrait of Aftyn Rose, this time focused on her “ahegao” face. It’s something she does often, but I have barely tried to represent. I’m not entirely sure what she’s expressing when she does it. For me, it sits at the intersection of silly, playful, and sexy that Aftyn herself exemplifies. The face is referenced…
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Mrs Claus
It’s been a while since I did a painting of Aftyn! Long enough that I felt a little rusty. But, after some false starts trying to decide what brushes to use, I got back into the swing of things. The reference is taken from one of her early ear licking videos. I just can’t resist…
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Aftyn figure studies 3
I had a confidence setback recently in my art skills, and wanted to salve that hurt by going back to some drawings of my favorite subject, Aftyn Rose. These are five figure studies rendered as nudes from a variety of non-nude sources. The bottom two drawings, sourced from one of my favorite videos, I did…
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Thoughts on the Aftyn Center posts
I finally finished and posted the whole Aftyn Center story. It’s been a real journey! When I started drawing as a teenager, comic books were my guiding light. It was a dream to draw my own stories. Obviously in this case I didn’t do anything as bold as drawing it as a comic, but putting…
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Aftyn center, part 3
The ghost girl rushes from room to room, looking in panic for a way to stop what’s going on. She no longer has lungs, but still her breath comes in ragged gasps. “What can I do?” she cries. “They’ll kill him! Or worse!” She passes through walls like they were curtains.
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Check out this butt
Monochrome drawing of Aftyn Rose showing off for her bathroom mirror before a shower. This is a return to an earlier piece I never thought was quite good enough. Because I have been using Aftyn drawings as a way to exercise my anatomical knowledge, I have also opted to remove her shirt. (And, you know,…
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Heads up
I was a little disappointed by the quality of my faces in the study group heads month concentration. The structural foundation is solid, and I’m sure it will help with gesture drawing, but in terms of building to portraits, most of my drawings were unrecognizable, except for the Aftyn ones. I decided to keep practicing…
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Aftyn center, part 2
“All right, girls, listen up!” The room full of young demons snaps to attention, facing their leader, a rather Dangerous looking succubus with blue hair, long, coiled horns, and full, bat-like wings. “We have a level two situation developing top-side. The humans have hired a priest to drive us from our home.”
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Study group – head and neck 4
This week’s study group exercise instructions went in two very different directions. We could either do last week’s rendered heads again, including lessons learned, or if we wanted to elaborate and abstract things, Kenzo included links to some challenging videos about 2d shape design and composition theory. I watched those and thought “this seems like…
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Study group – head and neck 3
This week we continue our study of head and neck anatomy by adding in shadow shapes guided by our simplified head shape model. I’m using different references this time around, to keep things fresh. There are a couple celebrities and one Aftyn reference. This was a fun exercise! However, I found it hard to stay…
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Aftyn center, part 1
A couple years ago, I wrote a little short story inspired by the idea of an ACU — Aftyn cinematic universe. What if all her characters existed in the same world? Fan fiction, really. It’s light and fun, although I should warn it’s a little not safe for work. Once written, I didn’t know what to…
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Color notes
I have been watching a bunch of Marco Bucci painting lesson videos, particularly his 10 Minutes to Better Painting series. The episode about color notes was particularly inspiring, and then the exercise proposed in this video gave me the impetus to try it out. Additional stylistic input from the apple tutorial contributes to a very…
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Aftyn face study
I’ve been working on some drawings of Aftyn from imagination — full body poses — and struggling with getting facial likeness at that distance. The eternal struggle! After four disappointing attempts at the target resolution, I decided to draw a close-up with the intention of shrinking it down and drawing over it with a simplified…
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Lyra’s perfect day
Lyra and Aftyn have been a team for a long time. I decided some time ago I wanted to do a portrait of them together. The concept is: what would make for an ideal day for a happy dog? Relaxing and playing with her favorite person. I found the reference for the image on the…
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Aftyn figure studies 2
Aftyn figure sketches, booty edition. I got to thinking how much I like to draw backs — and need practice at it! So I went looking for back-focused references for my favorite subject, and again am drawing them as if they were nudes to give the imagination some exercise. Getting some good back dimples on…
