Dragon Age Inquisition AU Where Adaar/trevelyan/lavellan/cadash Actually Died In The Explosion, And The

Dragon Age Inquisition AU where adaar/trevelyan/lavellan/cadash actually died in the explosion, and the Inquisitor has actually just been a manifestation of the orb.

basically prototype + final fantasy x end. if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go sit somewhere sadly and think about what I’ve done.

headshot paintings vary a lot - last night's was only a couple hours, but this one's closer to ten. Most of my paintings are between eight to forty hours, especially if there's shit like perspective because I, uh, still haven't mostly learned that one myself (and it's kind of more important than painting haha) but rendering is just meditative so time flies.

Stuff like this where it's just a simple face, it's easier for me to see all the tiny errors I didn't notice in the sketch. Too often with stuff like this or with perspective I make a giant mess when laying down the sketch that I think I can just fix with rendering and end up having to redo half of it from scratch.

I've got complicated feelings about painting as a discipline. I feel like I lucked out that it's so highly regarded in certain circles because it's just where my interests and skills always were. But a lot of people mistake rendering for painting, and a lot of online advice and videos are geared towards this. (And just personally since that’s the part I was good at to start with it made it harder for me to figure out how much stuff there was that I didn’t know) If I didn’t just enjoy the pure motions involved with it, I don’t think I would have found it easy to learn.

work in progress

it’s kind of rough when you hit those patches of art where your expectations and your theoretical knowledge have surpassed the quality level of your actual art by like a million miles and you’re left to either wallow in anger at yourself or to redraw something a lot of times from scratch until you stop making the mistakes you can see but can’t quite avoid yet.

I like the rendering on the first one but the depth and composition and colors weren’t what I wanted and I am slowly learning how to get them there over the course of this picture. But I am trying, you guys!

giveaway grand prize painting for idekwutiwantmyurl2b, who requested fanart of Cassandra. 

oc face practice - painted this a bit ago but never posted

face doodle outtakes