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masterpug53 posted...

Thanks! I'm glad you like it :D I know 'B7' and 'banhammer' are old hat at this point, but I had to give her something to lean on for that pose and that's the first thing that came to mind, lol.

Yes, that's entirely digital. A long time ago I would do lineart in physical media with pencil and pen, then scan it into the computer for color. But after I started getting good with my graphics tablet I transitioned to working 100% in Photoshop. I've been letting myself get bogged down too much with perfectionism lately and it's absolutely crippled my workflow, so I wanted to do something quick, fun and with no reference images save your drawing in the OP (and the gamefaqs logo, of course).

That's pretty much how I do it. I draw it out on paper, scan it to my computer, and then ink and color it. It's only now I'm somewhat trying to practice doing some stuff entirely digital. It's really reassuring to see how that's working out for you because you're super good!

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masterpug53 posted...

Here ya go, finally got off my lazy ass and got some lineart done at least. Will add color later hopefully. Enjoy!

https://imgur.com/qPE4j3I

Amazing work

United_World posted...

That's pretty much how I do it. I draw it out on paper, scan it to my computer, and then ink and color it. It's only now I'm somewhat trying to practice doing some stuff entirely digital. It's really reassuring to see how that's working out for you because you're super good!

Me-from-20-years-ago would be mortified to hear this, but barring the complete breakdown of the global electrical grid, I'm never going back to physical media for illustration work (except for the occasional sketch on a notepad). Digital is just so much more forgiving - in particular, my skill with proportions grew exponentially once it was easier for me to go back and resize things without having to completely re-draw them, and that in turn helped me to better recognize how to draw them properly the first time. And there's just so much more you can do with color in digital. Color is still something that intimidates me even after all these years since I worked mostly in black and white and / or grayscale pen and pencil, but I've gotten some very nice techniques down for both hair and skin tones that I could never have dreamed of in physical coloring.

DB_Insider posted...

Amazing work

Thank you very much, I appreciate that :-)

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A lot of awesome stuff in this topic!

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Here you go. Spit this out super quick. Qualifying statement: I literally haven't did any art or illustration or anything for the past 4 years, so I am super rusty and too lazy to fix any glaring ugly mistakes, especially the coloring.

And I assume the original art was cross-eyed? I tried to make her cross-eyed if her eyes seem funny.



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gasiousbary posted...

Here you go. Spit this out super quick. Qualifying statement: I literally haven't did any art or illustration or anything for the past 4 years, so I am super rusty and too lazy to fix any glaring ugly mistakes, especially the coloring.

And I assume the original art was cross-eyed? I tried to make her cross-eyed if her eyes seem funny.

Wow! For somebody who hasn't done art for four years, you're still really good at it! Those hands especially are on a level I often aspire to be on one day. And I like what you're doing with the lighting there. Really great stuff all-around.
As for if the original image was cross-eyed; that wasn't what I was going for initially, but now, I don't even know ha.

Damn, I'm so happy that CE have a lot of artists with their own unique styles.
@gasiousbary

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United_World posted...

Wow! For somebody who hasn't done art for four years, you're still really good at it! Those hands especially are on a level I often aspire to be on one day. And I like what you're doing with the lighting there. Really great stuff all-around.
As for if the original image was cross-eyed; that wasn't what I was going for initially, but now, I don't even know ha.

Damn, I'm so happy that CE have a lot of artists with their own unique styles.
@gasiousbary

Yeah, I was training or whatever to work in the videogame illustration biz, which my brother broke into over a decade ago. He started with Epic games, but he told me 2 years in to not do it because it is highly unstable and unreliable and extremely stressful (he worked for 5-6 different companies since he broke in), I took it to heart and completely abandoned illustration as a career and literally make money by working on the phone or computer for 10 minutes a year lol. Incidentally I am much more successful than my brother (and I have him to thank).

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i should really try drawing again

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gasiousbary posted...

Yeah, I was training or whatever to work in the videogame illustration biz, which my brother broke into over a decade ago. He started with Epic games, but he told me 2 years in to not do it because it is highly unstable and unreliable and extremely stressful (he worked for 5-6 different companies since he broke in), I took it to heart and completely abandoned illustration as a career and literally make money by working on the phone or computer for 10 minutes a year lol. Incidentally I am much more successful than my brother (and I have him to thank).

That's pretty cool. I remember I use to want to make video games when I was younger too. Then I shifted gears and wanted to work in animation/television. I already have a sweet (and busy) PA job for a certain company under Turner broadcasting. I'm really hoping to capitalize this into something eventually.

@masterpug53
Something I forgot to ask, what tablet do you use?

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United_World posted...

@masterpug53
Something I forgot to ask, what tablet do you use?

Wacom Intuos5 for home / personal art, Intuos Pro for work. The Pro's an inarguable upgrade (the pad itself is much smoother for line drawing in particular) in every area but one - they moved the Touch toggle from being mapped to the face buttons to some crappy little flip-switch on the side of the tablet. On my Intuos5 I'd trained myself to tap the Touch function on and off to zoom / rotate on the fly (to prevent the tablet from erroneously reading my resting hand as inputs), but I can't do that nearly as smoothly on the Pro. My old Intuos5 isn't going to last forever, so I guess I'm going to have to get used to using a drawing glove :/

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masterpug53 posted...

Wacom Intuos5 for home / personal art, Intuos Pro for work. The Pro's an inarguable upgrade (the pad itself is much smoother for line drawing in particular) in every area but one - they moved the Touch toggle from being mapped to the face buttons to some crappy little flip-switch on the side of the tablet. On my Intuos5 I'd trained myself to tap the Touch function on and off to zoom / rotate on the fly (to prevent the tablet from erroneously reading my resting hand as inputs), but I can't do that nearly as smoothly on the Pro. My old Intuos5 isn't going to last forever, so I guess I'm going to have to get used to using a drawing glove :/

My friend "lent" me his Wacom Cintiq 13HD. I say "lent" because he's been letting me borrow it for a few years now. He dropped a bunch of money on it and never really used it much. But I'm not complaining. For the longest time, I was using a basic little Intuos. Now that I've been using the Cintiq all this time, it has a screen on it and now I'm pretty much spoiled by it lol

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One of these days I'm going to spring for one with a built-in screen. But at this point I put so much time into practicing the hand-eye disassociation between drawing on a tablet and watching a screen that it's starting to feel like a sunk cost fallacy, lol.

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I always wanted to get a cintiq but I'm too cheap to buy one lol

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gasiousbary posted...

Here you go. Spit this out super quick. Qualifying statement: I literally haven't did any art or illustration or anything for the past 4 years, so I am super rusty and too lazy to fix any glaring ugly mistakes, especially the coloring.

And I assume the original art was cross-eyed? I tried to make her cross-eyed if her eyes seem funny.

wow i really like your style! for not drawing in a long time, this is so good omg

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https://imgur.com/l5gO8Ou

Verion 3

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Tag

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Bump. I'm planning to color mine over the weekend and don't want to see this topic go anytime soon :-)

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Nice work here so far, everyone. This topic has intrigued me enough to try my hand at drawing the character; I'll try to fit it in my schedule soon.

masterpug53 posted...

Bump. I'm planning to color mine over the weekend and don't want to see this topic go anytime soon :-)

I wish my job wasn't so demanding right now, otherwise, I'd be contributing as much as I was at the start. The weekend seems to be the only bit of full-day freedom I'll have this week. But other than that, I can't wait to see how your drawing turns out with color!

KevChaos86 posted...

Nice work here so far, everyone. This topic has intrigued me enough to try my hand at drawing the character; I'll try to fit it in my schedule soon.

Hell Yeah!


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This is all the effort i could muster



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We got some good artists here on CE.

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FabIe posted...

This is all the effort i could muster

Nice!

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FabIe posted...

This is all the effort i could muster

lmao

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I decided you deserved a better logo

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Here's my submission. I saw someone mentioning tablets earlier. I use a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 (4k). I like it a lot, and I'm pretty confident it's one of the best tablets available. (or at least it was in 2019 when I got it) I'm not sure if the price / performance ratio is quite there though; since there's tons of competitors that, while inferior, are often reasonable replacements for substantially lower price points. Still, I'd recommend it for anyone wanting to take art seriously (and by that I mean, anyone attempting to make money off of it like I am)

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Uta posted...

Here's my submission. I saw someone mentioning tablets earlier. I use a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 (4k). I like it a lot, and I'm pretty confident it's one of the best tablets available. (or at least it was in 2019 when I got it) I'm not sure if the price / performance ratio is quite there though; since there's tons of competitors that, while inferior, are often reasonable replacements for substantially lower price points. Still, I'd recommend it for anyone wanting to take art seriously (and by that I mean, anyone attempting to make money off of it like I am)

Good recommendation. She's cute.


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Uta posted...

Here's my submission. I saw someone mentioning tablets earlier. I use a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 (4k). I like it a lot, and I'm pretty confident it's one of the best tablets available. (or at least it was in 2019 when I got it) I'm not sure if the price / performance ratio is quite there though; since there's tons of competitors that, while inferior, are often reasonable replacements for substantially lower price points. Still, I'd recommend it for anyone wanting to take art seriously (and by that I mean, anyone attempting to make money off of it like I am)

Very nice

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FabIe posted...

I decided you deserved a better logo

Oh my god, haha
It took me a second to realize why this looks so familiar.

Uta posted...

Here's my submission. I saw someone mentioning tablets earlier. I use a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 (4k). I like it a lot, and I'm pretty confident it's one of the best tablets available. (or at least it was in 2019 when I got it) I'm not sure if the price / performance ratio is quite there though; since there's tons of competitors that, while inferior, are often reasonable replacements for substantially lower price points. Still, I'd recommend it for anyone wanting to take art seriously (and by that I mean, anyone attempting to make money off of it like I am)

Oh yeah, I mentioned the tablet. Just looked this up and DAMN! Your tablet is super expensive. I wouldn't mind getting something like that when I'm rolling around in money one of these days. Also, your Corette variant is very adorable.

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Considering their build quality, a refurbished one should probably serve just as well. Manga Artist Boichi (Dr. Stone) uses a similar (significantly more expensive) model to mine, but he puts a screen protector on it and then uses a metal nib for his pen.

https://youtu.be/4XJMg5bWg60

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@United_World here ya go, all color-ified. Enjoy!



And an Imgur link as well: https://imgur.com/T6BAZrc

PS does anyone know what causes a linked imgur image to open automatically in a gfaqs post and what forces you to unroll it? Seems very arbitrary to me.

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masterpug53 posted...

@United_World here ya go, all color-ified. Enjoy!



And an Imgur link as well: https://imgur.com/T6BAZrc

PS does anyone know what causes a linked imgur image to open automatically in a gfaqs post and what forces you to unroll it? Seems very arbitrary to me.

I don't believe you when you say you have issues with color because, holy shit, this is seriously outstanding! This honestly inspired me to mess around with digital a lot more. Do you post your art around anywhere? I would love to see more of your stuff.
@masterpug53

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https://imgur.com/WrVjPWb

This thing just keeps looking better and better.

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United_World posted...

I don't believe you when you say you have issues with color because, holy shit, this is seriously outstanding! This honestly inspired me to mess around with digital a lot more. Do you post your art around anywhere? I would love to see more of your stuff.
@masterpug53

Thanks, I appreciate that :D Color's just not as easy / natural to me as lineart, simply because I've got a lot more experience with the latter. But I'll admit that my coloring has come a long way, and I'm quite proud of how far I've come.

You can check me out on Deviantart, my handle there is Mezzberry. Be thee fairly warned though, it's mostly fetish art with a fair amount of nsfw (hence no direct link); probably fairly tame overall compared to some of the stuff you can find on the web, but I wouldn't blame you if your opinion of me changed dramatically for the worse, lol. I haven't posted anything new in years, but I'm hoping to finally get back into things and post some new works in the coming weeks.

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masterpug53 posted...

You can check me out on Deviantart, my handle there is Mezzberry.

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masterpug53 posted...

Thanks, I appreciate that :D Color's just not as easy / natural to me as lineart, simply because I've got a lot more experience with the latter. But I'll admit that my coloring has come a long way, and I'm quite proud of how far I've come.

You can check me out on Deviantart, my handle there is Mezzberry. Be thee fairly warned though, it's mostly fetish art with a fair amount of nsfw (hence no direct link); probably fairly tame overall compared to some of the stuff you can find on the web, but I wouldn't blame you if your opinion of me changed dramatically for the worse, lol. I haven't posted anything new in years, but I'm hoping to finally get back into things and post some new works in the coming weeks.

I don't judge, man. The only issue I have with your profile is a lot of the images are blocked out for me because I don't have an account ha.
But yeah, you're seriously on a whole different level. Have you worked professionally at all or is this something that you did purely for fun? Either way, I'm glad that you're interested enough to do more of your art.

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United_World posted...

I don't judge, man. The only issue I have with your profile is a lot of the images are blocked out for me because I don't have an account ha.
But yeah, you're seriously on a whole different level. Have you worked professionally at all or is this something that you did purely for fun? Either way, I'm glad that you're interested enough to do more of your art.

Heh, yep, you'd need a profile to view the adult-flagged content. And thanks, I always appreciate the compliments :D I tried to do commission work for a couple years, but I work too slow to really make any profit with it on a per-hour basis and, quite frankly, I was too unreliable with my time management. I eventually grew to hate having to haggle on every single 30-dollar comm and started craving a steady 9-to-5, which is what I have now (I do graphic design for a local wholesaler). I kept telling myself I'd get back into doing comms on the side, but on my time off I'd rather just work on personal projects whenever the mood strikes. If I ever try to monetize my hobby again, it'll probably be through selling comic-style stories instead of going back to commission work. Got a ton of story outlines, just need to actually sit down and write + draw them.

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United_World posted...

https://imgur.com/WrVjPWb

This thing just keeps looking better and better.

Lookin good. I love the different styles

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masterpug53 posted...

Heh, yep, you'd need a profile to view the adult-flagged content. And thanks, I always appreciate the compliments :D I tried to do commission work for a couple years, but I work too slow to really make any profit with it on a per-hour basis and, quite frankly, I was too unreliable with my time management. I eventually grew to hate having to haggle on every single 30-dollar comm and started craving a steady 9-to-5, which is what I have now (I do graphic design for a local wholesaler). I kept telling myself I'd get back into doing comms on the side, but on my time off I'd rather just work on personal projects whenever the mood strikes. If I ever try to monetize my hobby again, it'll probably be through selling comic-style stories instead of going back to commission work. Got a ton of story outlines, just need to actually sit down and write + draw them.

Now that would be super interesting to see. I've tried to do comics/webcomics in the past but I was just never good at it. You seem like you have a pretty good idea on the characters you want to make stories around based on your original characters from your DA. Here's hoping you pull that off!

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@United_World here's a no background png that will hopefully make it easier to add to the composite, apologies for not thinking of it sooner:

https://imgur.com/R3C3SqE

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masterpug53 posted...

@United_World here's a no background png that will hopefully make it easier to add to the composite, apologies for not thinking of it sooner:

https://imgur.com/R3C3SqE

This is actually super useful! I spent a lot of time messing around with the other one in Gimp just getting the background stuff removed and I ended up messing it up a bit in the process. Much appreciated!

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I deleted my original off my tablet so sadly I cannot provide mine without the background :(

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FabIe posted...

I deleted my original off my tablet so sadly I cannot provide mine without the background :(

It's fine. It gives me a reason to figure out how to be a bit more creative with GIMP. As you can see, I can use work :/

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United_World posted...

Now that would be super interesting to see. I've tried to do comics/webcomics in the past but I was just never good at it. You seem like you have a pretty good idea on the characters you want to make stories around based on your original characters from your DA. Here's hoping you pull that off!

Thanks for the vote of confidence! I do think I have some pretty good stories to tell, I'm pretty talented at writing as well. But that's always been my problem: plenty of ambition, not enough follow-through due to a combination of laziness and insecurity. I think after all these years I've more or less finally landed on an art style that I like, and can produce with confidence (at least for characters).

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masterpug53 posted...

Thanks for the vote of confidence! I do think I have some pretty good stories to tell, I'm pretty talented at writing as well. But that's always been my problem: plenty of ambition, not enough follow-through due to a combination of laziness and insecurity. I think after all these years I've more or less finally landed on an art style that I like, and can produce with confidence (at least for characters).

Oof. This hits way too close to home for me :(
I can sit around and talk about all the cool shit I want to make one day, but due to a number of outside factors, I don't always quite have the drive to sit down do the things I really want to do. I've really been trying to work on that.

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masterpug53 posted...

@United_World here ya go, all color-ified. Enjoy!



And an Imgur link as well: https://imgur.com/T6BAZrc

PS does anyone know what causes a linked imgur image to open automatically in a gfaqs post and what forces you to unroll it? Seems very arbitrary to me.

Magnifico

masterpug53 posted...

PS does anyone know what causes a linked imgur image to open automatically in a gfaqs post and what forces you to unroll it? Seems very arbitrary to me.

@masterpug53 It's in your settings: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/user/settings_basic
I believe the default is to hide all embeds after the first one (ie: Imgur or Youtube) Speaking of Imgur, here's a clear background PNG for the collection. I also corrected her skin tone. When originally working on it I failed to notice she was kind of desaturated; gave her an unhealthy sickly, palor despite my intention of going for the "genki" look. I included the original just in case you prefer that version.

https://imgur.com/a/QcMoRNX

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Uta posted...

Speaking of Imgur, here's a clear background PNG for the collection. I also corrected her skin tone. When originally working on it I failed to notice she was kind of desaturated; gave her an unhealthy sickly, palor despite my intention of going for the "genki" look. I included the original just in case you prefer that version.

https://imgur.com/a/QcMoRNX

Cool. I'll add that to the update!

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I need an excuse to bump this, so I'll post this drawing I've been doing --

https://i.imgur.com/hEVfdvn.jpg

Doing background drawings was always pretty difficult for me, so I've been practicing that a lot lately. The lines aren't perfect, but it's looking better than some of my past attempts.

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United_World posted...

I need an excuse to bump this, so I'll post this drawing I've been doing --

https://i.imgur.com/hEVfdvn.jpg

Doing background drawings was always pretty difficult for me, so I've been practicing that a lot lately. The lines aren't perfect, but it's looking better than some of my past attempts.

That's good stuff! One of my chief shortcomings is composition, in terms of making characters, environment, and everything else fit together in the same space in a believable way. This is something I should put some practice in on as well.

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masterpug53 posted...

That's good stuff! One of my chief shortcomings is composition, in terms of making characters, environment, and everything else fit together in the same space in a believable way. This is something I should put some practice in on as well.

That's ultimately what I want to do too. Being able to draw out entire scenes with characters hanging out and about and interacting with the environment and such. I'd like to think I'm slowly getting there.


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