In-ardent-longing - In Ardent Longing

a way to combat virus: be boring

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Yo I’m a sucker for this trope in fics, movies, show etc. every time a pairing are getting intimate and one of them caresses their partner’s face and their partner just goes like…

IT JUST MAKES MY HEART GO LIKE

this’ll probably be the only thing ill draw for fnaf sb kdjcdkf

Finally gave in because I wanted to interact where people I don’t know in person (and thus have to deal with face to face. xD) can find me

I’ll probably be updating details like an icon and such over the next week or so.

Here are some of process snapshots of this piece of Astarion in Baldur's Gate.

I am a messy painter and I often adjust and change the designs as I paint. (Mostly because I don't have the patience to do proper line art haha)

I start out with a rough sketch, I usually sketch ideas out on my ipad and move to my cintiq to work with colors.

Next I block in rough color thumbnail. I keep this part messy as I just want to figure out the value structure and the overall mood.

At this point, I have collected a myriad of screenshots and reference images from the game, pinterest, and also from artists work that inspires me.

With the references on one screen, I start to paint the details, I work from foreground to midground to background. (Sometimes I'll bounce between the depth when I get bored from painting one thing for too long)

Sometimes after I block in the colors I'll make adjustments. I didn't like how warped the perspective was getting on the building on the screen right side, so I adjusted the vanishing point and added more tiers to the design. I went back into the game and looked at more how the stairs were designed and figured it out more thoroughly with a sketch on on top.

I think sitting down and doing the details is the most time consuming part. I still want the focus to be on the character despite all the detail going on the background. At this point I'm toggling on black & white filters constantly to check the value, grouping everything in the background together, making sure the lighting frames the subject in focus. At this point I realized, I forgot to paint Astarion's hair LOL, and that the bg was getting a bit too detailed, so I used a more textured brush and painted away some of the edge details of bg buildings.

Last, I make final adjustments, and I make a overall lighting/fx adjustment folder. Adding in some noise, adjusting the contrast, color balance, and lighting over all and call it done!

Link to Print shop!

PowerPoint mostly. Like these

It has a vector function in the form of the autoshapes and 95% of my work is with the curve function. currently working on my characters in monochrome for because I'm enjoying the colors. I'm a slow artist and things end up in the planning over drawing stage for weeks to years, depending on mood.

And the other program is MS Paint. (I did this Undertale art back in 2017 but because that was really when Y/n characters in grey first started showing up I didn't quite know how to portray that and never got back to fixing them). Other than that I do traditional art, but it's mostly my base sketches or technical drawings (with a ruler and such) so I don't have many examples on hand.

Maybe I'll one day find a vector program that's comfortable, but I've been doing this since pretty much I was old enough to use a computer 20 years ago.

These ones are done in paint

Artists: what program do you use?

Any Adobe program

Clip Studio Paint

Procreate

ibisPaint

Gimp

Krita

Autodesk Sketchbook

FireAlpaca

Microsoft Paint (you absolute madlads)

Other

I’m a traditional artist

Not an artist button / I’m bald / vanilla extract / etc.