So many things I like about your works, including your palette choices, handling of lighting and shading, and painting style, especially on parts like hair and skin. Have you ever considered putting together a painting tutorial? I'd love to know your secrets ;A;
oml AAAA thank you so much sakdjfalsk <333 I've considered a painting tutorial, but wawaw tutorials are some TOP TIER MATERIAL I'm not sure that I'd be able to pull it off
yet. I'm kind of still trying things out myself, and I want to know what I'm doing a bit better before I do something like a tutorial :'^J +my commentary is horrible oh no >v>)b but I do want to make more speedpaints and idk how helpful those might be but maybe you can learn something from it! ;c; <3 (tbh though your paintings are beautiful too like hhh i fell in lOVe with that tropius the moment i saw it in the ss thread ;<; )
that gastrodon is majestic af ;w; also you should share your shading secrets
omg thank you!! gastrodon is actually one of my favorite pieces of mine right now too! ;u; it took me three tries to get it right, but I'm so happy with the result aaaa asjflsdjlk!! I'm not sure that I have any shading secrets but I think a really important thing to keep in mind while shading is that your object is 3d. light hitting the surface of your object at 90° will be brighter and as the angle strays farther and farther away from that angle it becomes darker. it seems really obvious but I think it's easy to overlook,,, for me at least lOL
Seconding both of these comments! You're such a cool artist. I must learn your secrets. I love how you can make even your lineless paintings look crisp. Also, you're fabulous at lighting. Take
this painting for instance---the lighting is so en pointe and the shadow of her eyelashes is just too amazing. Also, echoing pom, I greatly admire your palette choices. I admit that I've saved a few of your pieces to colour pick palettes from. Have you considered a painting tutorial btw? :>
SCREAMSssss AAA fell you'RE THE COOLEST KID HEre! I think lineless paintings will look crisp if you just have sharp edges :'^J with painting, you still use lines but instead of drawing out a line you make the line with contrasting values/colors. the more you define that line the crisper your thing thing thing looks (but it takes twenty years aksdjfl),, I'm not going to do any tuts yet bc I'm afraid that am not expert enough to be entrusted with such a task but I want to do more speedpaints and hopefully you can learn something from those!! ;c;
omg i'm so delighted to get these three comments all in a row and i just AAAA
this is actually so great to go to bed to like actually thank you pom, fuzz, and fell so much ;c; <33
I've been drawing mostly pokemon lately so I sadly didn't record a drawing of a human for hair/skin, but I have a speedpaint for the cyndaquil below! >wo)7
speedpaint: