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Nintendo DS Paintings! (NSFW)
Godfather
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I am teaching myself how to digitally paint for fun! I am too poor to own Photoshop so I just use my old Nintendo DS ahaha
And some other quick throwaway doodles I do on the side!
I have a lot more, but i'm in a hurry so I have to go!
And some other quick throwaway doodles I do on the side!
I have a lot more, but i'm in a hurry so I have to go!
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Speaking of boobies, set brush pens to Hot Bitches!
Some line and color speedies
And a crappy photo of a sphere I built from imaginationland!
Do you have a tablet? There are some good free options for digitally painting.
I didn't mean to imply that I stray away from hand studies! They're just hard to do with a big 'ol thick-tipped brush pen that it's almost a waste of ink, honest!
I'm drawing some more hands as we speak, so for now here are some hand studies that I do with a regular pen since the tip is a lot smaller:
My sketchbooks are usually ass-ugly, so I was only posting the best pages/doodles. Usually they look more like this:
My apologies on the confusion!
INSTAGRAM
Birthday gift for my sister
My hand hurts after that one
I'm going to keep focusing on my anatomy studies for now. I don't really feel that it should be necessary to post the dozens of sketch pages I burn through a day since I'm mainly doing that to understand a concept rather then make something pretty.
I mainly study muscle groups from anatomy apps on my smartphone. I will start concentrating on more normal looking people! Thank you for the advice!
Do you have any books hanging around? If you dont have this one or this one, Id recommend them for studying the body in part.
I do want to say, however, that when you study the body in part, you miss out on some of the flow of the figure as a whole. Not just gesture, which you have a pretty good sense of, but also proportions. You might want to start a studying in a different pattern. Rather than doing a whole page of leg muscles and then a whole page of forearm muscles, Try something like this:
Leg muscles sketch page page > studies of the form with strong light, find the geometric shapes > drawing the muscle structure into Nude reference photo, few small poses > slightly Longer study referenced painting.
You want to maximize the amount your brain is actually taking away from the study in the long term. Its kind of like writing an essay. Doing the sketches is like, doing the reading and taking notes. Sometimes you go through all that and when you turn around to finally put all the thoughts together you realize you barely skimmed and your notes are terrible. You want to make sure that when you get to the essay you actually got the information and didnt just do through the motions of notating it. Make sure you dont forget what the leg muscles are by the time you figure out how to draw a nose. Keep putting it all together and try different body types just so your brain is solving the same problem over and over again but in different ways.
I had a lengthy reply in my head but I need to get some stuff done today. Here's some stuff i'm dumping from my DS while I have the time. This first one was just to test out the new hardware on this DS program:
The next one is the tattoo comission.
This is the design the client went with, but couldn't decide which version so I gave him all four!
And some cool little test animations I did with that Animanitee program on the DS!
http://s14.postimage.org/6017o71wh/Animation01_0.gif
http://s14.postimage.org/asfmddly7/Animation02_1.gif
Unfortunately I couldn't get them to loop so you'll have to refresh your browser
More DS painting color studies:
I was playing SSFIV3D and this is the only character i'm any good with:
Everyone said the first image in my OP looked like that guy from Assassin's creed, so I thought i'd come full-circle and work on it a bit more:
And another portrait of a co-worker using my 3DS instead and a copy of Inchworm animation!:
Right now my class on lighting started, and since im putting in 50-hour work weeks the only thing I can focus on at the moment is light/color theory!
Well it turns out I won a local contest at Collecting Smiles! Not only did I win a free copy of Colors 3DS, but I get it a week before it gets put out on the Nintendo store
I decided to treat myself to a fun little doodle tonight in celebration!
Also I finally figured out how to upload my work on my own account at the official website! You can click the link below to watch how I painted the above image:
http://colorslive.com/details/59797-The_Neon_Deity_by_Parrotine.php
You can also see/watch the rest of my gallery below in case anyone's interested!
http://colorslive.com/author.php?page=1&id=32186
Also I decided to work on this one a bit more to really get a better neon glow effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=74JQ61rd7Zo
I use this because photoshop is too expensive ahaha
http://sai.detstwo.com/sai/index
Totally worthwhile and cheap. My friend swears by it, and he used it when he was an assistant to the artist for the last Scott Pilgrim book (which says more about its versatility for inking, but he paints purdy images with it too).
Anyways, these things right here are just doodles I either finished a while back, or got bored with, or lost interest, or didn't know where to take it, or just ran out of steam haha! Instead of deleting them I thought i'd dump them here just cause!
This is about as far as I can take these pieces for now until I figure out what to do here
It helps that v1.1 crashes occasionally, leaves glitch lines, etc….
My recommendation to you is to use your (3)DS often to capture things from life. It's critical that you note the difference between interpreting forms from reality and from the bastardization a 2D representation (i.e: photo reference) brings.
My Artist Corner Thread • Everywhere I Post
For now I just use my regular DS, which has just finished repairs today! I'm going to pick it up right now
I'm actually posting this here so I can save this through my 3DS browser in order to port and finish it on the newer version of colors!
Other than that, I look forward to seeing how it progresses.
This painting was done with my 3DS, and actually works much better compositionally that way (mainly with the lighting/clouds) but whatev
Ummmmmmm this one's cause I was bored at work
I'm too lazy/busy to polish it off right now
Is much better, even if you struggle with them its better practice than leaving them out. In general it would be nice to see more paintings where "physically fit girl torso" isnt the focus.
I am working on another nude study that does incorporate hands, so no worries!