Wow! Your Realistic Portraits Are Amazing! How Do You Do It?

Wow! Your realistic portraits are amazing! How do you do it?

Made another one to answer this!

Thank you! I'm far from an expert with realism yet, but it's been fun to experiment. It's a lot different than my usual style; instead of focusing on lines I have to focus way more on building up the facial structure and giving depth though shading. And since I'm trying to work with sort of realism, I also have to limit the amount of clear lines and focus on differentiating parts through shading.

- Sketch

- Fill in the major colour fields of the sketch with each colour on a different layer

- Use a clipping mask to shade (multiply) and highlight (overlay/high opacity light colour) each field separately and add details like eyes

- Add mostly flat background

- Blend character with background using additional ambient shading (multiply) and add other effects

Maybe I should try my hand at speed drawing again sometime...

I hope everything works out soon 🥺🥺 If you're still taking requests, maybe an adorable plaidypus? I love those funky little guys

You know what, I said last one was gonna count last pic for this anon too, but I'm achey and fevery and need comfort plaidypuses.

Well. I just found a new blog in my list of blogs I follow that I don't remember following and really doesn't seem to line up with what I would be following. Changed my password, but if you see anything weird from my account please let me know.

(Also sorry for being so inactive lately, real life has been crap.)

Got called a "sexyman" in my Bill cosplay and I don't know if I should be flattered or offended.

Also a little girl adressed me with "hey nacho" and she's my hero.

If you're still taking requests, Stan and my Oc Kevin being Pirates together

(maybe even, co-captains, if you get what I mean...)

Old man pirates!

Going through my old Pirate AU drawings for inspiration to try and get back into the swing of drawing and realized I had plenty of Bill pictures I never shared due to spoilers. But since last comic and last chapter sort of revealed he's not entirely human...

Art dump, anyone?

Calling the captain a man was inaccurate. The word tasted wrong in conjunction with his name. The crew knew, of course. All of them were acutely aware. The man they looked at wasn't their captain. It wasn't the man they bowed to and cowered from. It wasn't the man who's word they obeyed with fearful precision. The man wasn't their captain. The thing wearing his skin was. (Next chapter sneak peek?)

Expression practice + Bill's motive rant, before the comic

Brief idea I had for a "bad end" to chapter 6, and what probably would have happened if Ford hadn't gotten seriously ill and made Bill throw him off the ship. Bill possesses people who fit a profile so he can pretend he's all the same person and that profile is, well, young adult male with brown hair. Ford.

**Edit**

Oh shoot I forgot one! Different Bills, and what they were before "becoming him"