[full res and commentary] Hana (Jan 24, 2022)

Twitter caption: "It seriously took you more than 4 tries to solve the Wordle?"

Timelapse here, and PSD here!

Continuing on my quest to git gud at digital painting, I drew a simple portrait of Hana looking at the viewer with an expression of shock and disgust. 

On top of the gratuitous rim lighting, I added a little bit of noise and chromatic aberration and bloom as a little bit of garnish, which actually looked kind of cool. Artstation here I come! Although, it did end up being kind of a pain because it turns out it's hard to do additional painting on top of stuff you added a bunch of effects to. If only Procreate had adjustment/effect layers. 

I didn't originally have a caption for this, but I was drawing this while in a call with a bunch of friends who were doing the day's Wordle, and we got into a bit of trash talking about how solving a Wordle in 4 tries isn't really that good. It seemed like a good thing for Hana to get disgusted about. It also turned out to be appropriate for today's word, because apparently it was very difficult.

Anyway, I feel like I'm beginning to maybe get a handle on the painting thing a little bit, so I hope the next ones will be gooder and gooder. Will I ever go back to big pixelart illustrations? Who knows? I think it'll probably be a "comics only" thing going forward, because I'm finding that working in high res lets me do so much more stuff like rotating/scaling/warping things, making minor adjustments, adding cool effects, using cool brushes, etc that are a huge pain in the butt or impossible when working in low res. It unlocks a whole new tech tree that I want to really start exploring instead of holding myself back to a specific style or niche.

Blah blah blah, I'll save the rest for the Friday Ramble. As always, thanks for your support!!