Dark Souls 2 - Tumblr Posts
Unironically, ds2 is my favorite fromsoftware game. I dunno why, but amana priestess design stuck up with me
I've been super slow with art lately because my style has changed a lot since I started studying painting in an actual class instead of on my own, and i´ts messing with my brain.
The way I was doing things, I start with a very rough and ugly sketch with lines and different colors to get the pose right.
Then, in another layer i do the lineart, this is not great for me, I know that a lot of people work this way, but it takes me so much time since I just don't have the skill to draw a clean lineart without taking a lot of time in the sketch, and it makes my art look artificial. Ignore the random line up there
Lastly, I get to the color, the horror. My problem is that I had a very basic understanding of how shading and color pallets work, the way I was doing things made my art look dull. It's functional, but I noticed that I started adding very dark shadows to make my mistakes less obvious. It is hard for me to add complexity and texture using only solid colors or lines. And It's not that the technique is bad given that the majority of people that draw do it that way, but my brain doesn't work like that
with that ds2 drawing, I started to be interested in other techniques. Specifically, while doing the background. I didn't use any straight line for it, or solid colors, I looked up references of dead trees and rocks and saw tutorials for hours. The process was so much smoother in comparison, it was great just to use a graphite pencil and the blend tool because it felt more organic and natural for me.
This is the finished drawing btw, it got zero interactions so I'm reposting it uhhh
I explained all of this in my art classes and I was told to lean more into watercolor and acrylic painting. I've been testing it through the last weeks with mixed results, but when I tried to go back to digital painting and tried to draw the same way I was doing before, I felt unable to do so. The straight lines didn't come out correctly, and colors looked like they were picked at random. I made like 4 or 5 terrible looking drawing, got frustrated and spent 2 days figuring out what happened. It felt kinda bad to see that suddenly I was getting worse at painting, despite the time I spent practicing.
This was the painting I did in watercolor
Today I searched for tutorials about how I could emulate acrylic painting in a digital drawing, and suddenly it clicked with me, the actual problem was that I changed my way of thinking while doing watercolor and now I was trying to do the same thing as before with that different mindset. Did this apple instead with what I learned, and It felt the same as when I made that background, I think I might found my thing in regard to coloring. Turns out my brain can't think in terms of straight lines and plain colors, and I work better by rendering rather than try to have a more cartoonish style. I slept 4 hours today, so I'm going to do more tests and finish one of the ugly drawings I had but now with this style tomorrow
we are so back
Very messy, but I just wanted to get them out there.
My main character (but not The Bearer of The Curse) for Dark Souls 2, Aki.
I might... I might be slightly obsessed by the dark souls games... Just maybe... A little...
Anyways, this is my fave NPC. Creighton the Wanderer. He's like... Kinda insane. But he's also like... A blorbo?? I guess.
Well here, 100%
It remains to impose color
Soulsborne Cities
On The Edge Of The Void
With the eyes closed
On the edge of the void
With the tears
In the jeans pocket
The brain and the heart
That balance an equilibrium
Almost broken
With the eyes closed
On the edge of the void
With the tears
In the jeans' pocket
Hand in hand
With a flower on the annular
"May I seduce you with some interesting scientific facts?"
-Art by @lupusfloslunae. Pose and shade exercise
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Gaunt Me but Darksouls boss. First low-res digital painting in a while.
Told myself I wouldn't get addicted to the souls universe but here I am with dark souls brainrot.
Trying out some renders before I post to my portfolio.
I was wondering about doing some projects to bump up my skills in texturing and modeling, and this turned out to be a great one.
I did the Demon's Souls version of this sword a while back, where it turned out blocky and kinda bland, and finishing this has been great to see that I came a long way doing textures
Moonlight Greatsword (or Bluemoon Greatsword if you want to get technical) from Dark Souls 2
