kingcholera

Creating References (for everyone)

More than anything else, I want to be able to help other artists. 

Don't get me wrong, I love painting and creating my own characters, but helping is what I feel like I'm meant to do. It's the reason why I created my first patreon, and why it seems like something is...

FAVORITE PROGRAMS:

My main program is photoshop, but I use other software for various things like creating pose reference and lighting schemes! Some of them I just bought or rarely use, and others have become essential to my process. 

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FAVORITE ART BOOKS:

As someone who could never afford art school or online classes, I have gathered a lot of useful resources over the years to teach myself. I wanted to share all of them, but I am going to separate each into categories like programs, websites etc. Today we will start with the books! I will either m...

Confidence Building: Dreaming Big

This post has been sitting in my drafts since November of last year. My confidence was at an all time low and I was feeling really sorry for myself, so I started writing about dreams. One of the bigger dreams was to work with Guillermo Del Toro, even if it was for a small project, even if it was ...

My Brushes!

I am uploading the three brushes I use for almost all of my work. I found the source of the main brush 2019-02-27 18:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post

"Lady Agnew" Master Study

Oh look, another Sargent master copy! No one is surprised. 😂 This one is of "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw", and it ...

Q&A!

Since I had to put off the other lessons for now, I thought I would make a post where anyone can ask questions. Do you need advice on something, or are you just curious about what brushes I use? Maybe you just want suggestions on how to practice. If it is a personal question, you can always send ...

Tumblr.

Since everything that happened with tumblr, I have been feeling a little discouraged. 

Tumblr is where I became kingcholera. Most of my followers are there, and I have definitely noticed how much it has changed since the NSFW ban. I keep telling myself that there are still p...

Alex and Epoch

TV and film style illustrations has always been one of the ways I pictured telling this story. When I imagine scenes it is in a very cinematic way, even down to the subtitles. The problem was, while I have done a good handful of studies just like this, I still struggle with drawing BGs by myself....

Test #2

The lighting is a lot better this time around, but it is still pretty inconsistent in both contrast and color. I apologize for that, I was constantly changing the angle of the lights to see what worked best and so I decided to make them all black and white until I can get more cohesive colors. &n...

Hand References (Feedback is appreciated!)

I kept putting this off because my equipment and the space I can shoot photos in is pretty limited, but I think with a lot more tests I can get lighting that is more consistent so I want give it a try. Right now I have an older model iphone, a tripod, a black blanket for the backdrop and a desk l...

Story Stuff!

There are two of these names that I am not 100% on yet, but everyone else feels 'right'. Some of them you already know, and others you might be able to guess, but either way I will match the names to their faces for all of you soon enough. 🖤

 Bloodless has gone t...

Small Portraits!

Under 40 mins each.

Give me your 'Value, Color and Light' Questions!

Nothing is off limits, so ask away.  😊

2019

In the summer of 2017, I was asked to participate in a Dorian art book by two amazing people that I now consider friends. That art book, Fortitudo, went on to raise well over 20,000 USD for two LGBT charities, and was one o...

❄️ Happy Holidays ❄️

I will have more to show you after Christmas, but for now let me show you a few of my favorite things:

A favorite art book of mine, "Drawing the Head and Figure by Jack H...

Drawing Without Reference

I mentioned this on twitter, but I have spent so many years studying from photos, doing master copies and learning realism that I forgot to practice drawing from my head alongside it. My confidence is already shaky to begin with, and using reference has been my safety blanket for so long that I alwa...

I need your input!

For the lessons, should I go into detail on each individual subject (value, color and light)  or give a brief explanation and then focus on the relationships between all of them? 

Originally I was going to do the first one; focus on values and then transition into how values r...

Uraomote

Which can translate to something like 'both sides' or 'two-faced' in Japanese. This is the name of an idea I've had in my head for a few years now, alongside Pestilent Prince. Uraomote is about the nightlife of the living, the dead and yokai who inhabit a small town.

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Thank you, Patrons.

A lot of you have been with me from the very beginning. Not on Patreon, but since I made the name kingcholera and started posting on tumblr. Some of you were also the first to commission me when I was so scared to try again. Many of you are now my friends. 

A very rough 'Magister Dorian Pavus' concept

Using some of those gesture poses I posted, I messily put together a look that I would love to see for him in DA4. I must have a preference, because this is very similar to what he was wearing in my Necromancer painting. Either way, I want Dorian to greet us draped in black and dripping in gold. I m...

Favorite Things...Sketchfab!

A few months ago I came across a collection of scans done by Benjamin Bardou (@meryon) of sculptures at the Lourve Museum in Paris. I was blown away by the amount of detail, and as someone that has never been to the Lourve, getting...

Figure Studies

I did these studies from reference for an idea I had, but who knows when I can get around to doing them, so here are the gestures for now. I will leave you with a few hints:

It involves training with a stave. Pay close attention to the body language too, because I tried to find poses th...

A Lady and her Knight

Since Camilla and Marion are both characters based off of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood paintings, it seemed only fitting to use Waterhouse as inspiration for a painting.  

This is just a rough WIP of it, and I probably won't be able to work on it until I get back from my trip, but I ...

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I can finally draw and paint while I travel! Expect updates as I try to learn how to use procreate. 😅 

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 Figuratively speaking, if I were to study and teach specific subjects next year, what would you like to see covered first? 

Figuratively speaking, of course. 

EDIT: 'Value, light and color' is winning by one vote!  

Brainstorming!

SPOILERS...but I wanted to share a moodboard for one of the infected. One design out of ten isn't giving away too much, right? Keep in mind that Marion is going to look very different from the portrait on this sheet. She is going to be so creepy. They are all going to be so cre...