Tag: cartoon
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Dancing girl
One night I was thinking about drawing instead of what I should have been doing — sleeping — and I remembered that Procreate added an animation mode. I wanted to try it out, and what better subject than Aftyn doing a cute little dance? It was fun to do, but animation is super tedious! I…
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Erica Slaughter
Painting of Erica Slaughter, lead character from the great horror comic Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Dell’Edera has a rough, scratchy style that isn’t my usual jam, but combined with his design sense, it’s wonderful. He draws these evocative characters (look at those eyes!) in all kinds of…
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Samus
Samus Aran, star of Metroid Dread surveys her works. The game has been on my mind a lot lately. I’m in the final boss fight now, but it might be a while before I’m adept enough to beat it. This was a quick picture. I was trying to invent the lighting aspects, and it’s fair.…
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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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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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Homelander
A portrait of Homelander from The Boys, sneering. The actor, Anthony Starr, does a remarkable job showing us the internal anger that seethes within the character. I figured a cartoon-style rendering made sense, but the suit wouldn’t “read” without some of the minute texture detail on it. I hope my solution works.
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Nextlander
I made a silly thing to celebrate the launch of Nextlander, a video game… uh… podcast, streaming, personality… thing. Three of the core guys from Giant Bomb left to make their own thing, and I love it. The picture is modeled after the original movie poster for Star Trek: the Motion Picture.
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Birthday girl
I woke up in the middle of the night with this notion about birthdays in my head and knew I had to make a painting for it. It’s my best friend Dani’s birthday, something neither of us tends to be very happy about. I’m glad I can celebrate her, though. Happy birthday, Dani! I’m really…
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Sohla El-Waylly
Another cartoon-style portrait, this time of my favorite YouTube chef, Sohla El-Waylly. I’m pretty happy with this one. Check out that brick texture! I figured out a little trick to represent the albedo on her glasses that sure wouldn’t work in a physical painting. I’m debating whether I should have simplified the shadows some, but…
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Jareth, the goblin king
An attempt to make a simplified version of Jareth, the Goblin King from Labyrinth. I think David Bowie is one of the best entertainers to ever live, so it was a real treat to do this. It didn’t turn out as good as I hoped. Blonde hair continue to be problematic for me. The line…
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Teacher
Aftyn‘s teacher roleplay was the first thing I ever saw of her. This is an attempt at doing a much more graphical style than I usually do, a product of looking for ways to work around my troubles with the Procreate blend tool. My line work is definitely improving. I’ve been saying I needed to…
