Tag: process
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Pedro Pascal
Portrait of Pedro Pascal, done in Procreate on the iPad using charcoal brushes. The reference image is from the movie Prospect, which is a great piece of cinema veritas for a grungy, awful future. I think the piece turned out pretty good, although the helmet reflections are weak. It probably wasn’t obvious, but the last…
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Donnie Yen
Charcoal portrait of martial arts superstar Donnie Yen, done in Procreate on the iPad. There’s something bugging me about this one. It doesn’t feel right, but I can’t put my finger on what it is. Mechanically, there’s a handful of problems. I picked an orange base layer color that was deliberately outlandish, something I’ve seen…
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Adam Driver
This week I was practicing sketches of heads using a simplified form of the Loomis method. At first I was pretty unimpressed with my efforts, so I went and collected some reference pictures. That gave better results, particularly my little sketch of Adam Driver. It was good enough that I decided to elaborate it into…
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Emilia Clarke
Another charcoal portrait, this time of actress Emilia Clarke, who will probably always be chased by the name “Khaleesi”. Here, she is portraying a young Sarah Connor from Terminator Genisys. Not a good movie! She has some pretty amazing lips, though. That’s something I’ve been trying to work on in my faces lately. I was…
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This is America
Charcoal portrait of Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, from the video “This is America”. This was my first attempt at a charcoal portrait. This kind of work doesn’t really allow for blending, which I tend to do a lot of. I wouldn’t have been able to pull it off without my recent work in trying…
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Quick painting of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of Fleabag and a bunch of other brilliant television properties. I fell in love with the slightly worried look she projected in the picture. I did this at the end of a week of practice sketches, none of which is good enough to share. I wanted to have something…
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Touchy
An experiment in painting with a very limited color palette, inspired by Aftyn’s “Sensual touchy relax time” video, which is pretty monochromatic. Given that it was my first time trying it, I shouldn’t give myself a hard time over how hard a road this painting took to becoming reality. This was a labor. It does…
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Teknekt
Portrait of Reddit user teknekt for the DrawMe subreddit. I’m not entirely sure what pulled me into this piece, but it was fun to draw. This was my first time going for a kind of “wet” look to the paints. I like the messiness and expression they give, although I’d probably be better served applying…
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Leg massage
This is a painting of Aftyn Rose from the Legs and feet massage video. This is another picture I thought I might be able to tackle, despite the wealth of little details, and I think it turned out pretty good! I must say, though, if I never have to paint those Rhode microphones again, I’ll…
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Wet dress
That Pink kitten painting went well enough that I was emboldened to try and do a painting with translucency. I’m still making progress with converting reference images to sketches, and to painting with those sketches. Edge lines aren’t nearly as bad these days. My color blending with Procreate has improved substantially, although I saw another…
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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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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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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.
