LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #211: Aye, yet another new Clip Studio Paint sketch set!
Added 2024-03-22 13:00:05 +0000 UTCYeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
I was quite displeased with the first two sketches at left, in which I followed my usual approach of slowly and painstakingly attempting to closely replicate the photos' tricky shading, but found myself frustrated by the results. With the sketches at right I rolled with a quicker, looser, higher-energy approach, which I wound up enjoying a whole lot more; TBH, drawing tightly rendered sketches is of dubious utility at best to my future artwork, so I should probably stick to a "loosier-goosier" sketching orientation going forward.
What do you think, dear Patrons (if you'll pardon the wan attempt at engagement)?
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, but something should be coming up in the next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?
Comments
... and what is the face below the floating bearded head looking at, and how, in your opinion, does his expression suggest he finds *that* part? Does he appreciate the soft fuzzy patch of downy, silky strands, the same shade as the hair on her head, her eyebrows, and under her arms? That's right... she's not a shaver and for that we adore her even more, a bold statement in today's culture. It's not that she's too lazy, she's just a bit of a nonconformist. She got her nose and eyebrow pierced just to have the visible holes, but she only wears the jewelry to bed, and it's JUST to keep them from closing up. Her fingernails are painted to resemble the trunks of trees, and her hands are tattooed to look like a canopy above a stand of trees, but it's really just a new kind of henna that can feature blues and greens. She fills out her income tax forms in crayon, and has trouble making it legible because of how many digits there are in some of the boxes. She writes very neatly, but only with her toes. While she does that, with her other foot and hands, she's busy throwing pottery... the kind made to be broken at parties by tanned, somewhat inebriated Mediterraneans... and then soaked to return to slip for throwing again. She has 17 kids, (2 biologically hers, 4 cousins, and 11 somewhere between being fostered and adopted legally.) She has about a hundred cats, but mostly they stay out in the barn or countryside around her palatial barn and workshop. Also, she has 2 prized studs whose semen sells for more than it's weight in gold, three mares, a pony, (no, NOT a Shetland, a regular one,) and... a unicorn. Most people are unaware of his mysticality because he uses his powers to make his horn invisible. Invisible, that is, on every day except for July 4th, when the Law of Fairyfolk and their Friends require that invisible magical parts be visible from sunrise to sunset. (Most magical and mystic creatures spend the day hidden well, WELL out of sight, playing tabletop role-playing games *. Just too much hassle to explain otherwise.) The unicorn spends the rest of the month composing operas and arguing with his drycleaner, as is so often the case with horned, mystical equines. (It's in all the literature... don't waste your time researching this, as I already did it for you. All my sources agree: I'm right.) It has nothing to do with a political revolution, by the way; it's coincidence. It's just the day on our calendar that corresponds to their Lunar New Year's. (Don't bother to look it up... it's THEIR moon, not the one you're familiar with.) Sorry, just wanted to give her a cool backstory to go with her lovely bosom. Seemed fitting. * Role-playing games for these creatures tend to have conversations that go like this: Elgorm the Elf, GM: "Okay, Richard. You passed your dexterity check, and the lawnmower is now running, sputtering a bit, rur rurrr rurrr splut rurrr rrrrrr rRrrrRRrRRrrrRRNNMMmmmmmmmm" Richard the Divorced Dad: "Um, I push the lawnmower across the lawn." Elgorm, GM: "WHACK! The mower has struck a rock and hurled it right at your left shin! Roll to save!" Richard: "A 3, shoot!" Elgorm: "Sorry, it broke your skin and..." (consults cheatsheet,) "not only are you bleeding profusely, your shin BONE is also split. It smarts awfully and you have taken 2d6 damage... roll 2d6 for damage, 'Richard' ". (Richard rolls a 2 and a 4.) "Ow wow oww I am injured, woe is me! Owww... Marjory, I need a buff!" Margaret: It's Margaret, Blown-Wind! "It's RICHARD, ... Margaret. Sorry I messed up your name. Please heal me?" Margaret: "I cast Nine One One." Elgorm: "You don't have a phone in your purse of carrying, human wife. Richard continues to bleed and weep piteously" Margaret: "I run into the dwelling structure that we built ourselves out of the corpses of dead trees to find a telephone device." Elgorm: "Okay, roll 15 or higher on 1d20 to see if you succeed." Margaret: "Why do I have to roll to see if I can find a telephone device in my own dead tree dwelling box if it's nailed to the wall with pain-metal nails?!?" Elgorm: "You didn't say that you ran into your house. You ran into your neighbors' house and all their furniture is piled up on top of the telephone device to keep it safe from neighbors like you barging in trying to use it to cast nine one one on someone who they might not even like. What if they're dimplebats? Or worse... deslubltanz? Or hairy cashews, or lessnom pitted cherries? They won't let anyone use their telephone device for less than a thousand gold bills." Margaret: ". .but I said I ran into the one we built!" Elgorm: "You're a homemaker, Margaret... you probably made every home on that road, and definitely yours AND all your neighbors." Margaret: "I thought I was a level two Ary of Secrets... For Mister Bigboss..." Elgorm: "Look at your character sheet... you have homemaker as a secondary main skill, with a gingerbread specialization that gives you +3 to any confectionery construction projects..." ... Etcetera. Sorry, this ran long because I'm waiting for my hair to dry so I can go to bed.
Nadia Novak
2024-03-23 07:37:34 +0000 UTCThe center two figures came out goo, so if they're the loosey-goosey pattern, it evidently worked quite well!
Strypgia
2024-03-22 18:18:48 +0000 UTCI don't think your loosier style is all that loose. Looks pretty damn tight. So do what you like and how it serves your future art.
Will_K
2024-03-22 15:49:25 +0000 UTCI love how ya do these refs
Image Incorporated
2024-03-22 14:03:42 +0000 UTCBearded guy looks like a cosmic floating head judging the woman's breasts wanting....
Dave Van Domelen
2024-03-22 13:06:37 +0000 UTC
