Zemi of Wayrift etc.!! I recall (maybe incorrectly?) that when he gets dressed in people clothes, his robe has a dragon on it… but Wren never drew it (probably because it would be crazy-hard to do). So I decided to put it on, and used brushes from here…
So, here’s the Zemi-kins showing off again. As he usually does. And so on.
You should see this picture – it comes with a delightful (though a little bit sad) story.
King Lusiel and Queen Siasara, for Rose in the sketch commissions. Hope she likes them! Her characters are cute. Apparently these two pick on each other, but love each other very much underneath. Betcha anything they met as young heroes, and then tried to settle down, and the universe said “nuh-uh, you’re not going to rest on your laurels! Gotta keep saving me!” Something like that.
Oh yeah, and he’s an elf and she’s a human. But These Elves Are Different, from what I can gather.
Whoops I forgot to colour in one part white. Oh well.
One of those sketch commissions, this is for imahappi, of Storme. Apparently he’s an assassin, and partly a mage? But the pin-stripes suggested a city-background to me, so: blobs. Hope it’s not too terrible, imahappi!
Kip! OMEGA Kip, being awesome. Sketch commish for TalonV. Technomance! It’s like romance, except… really, really not!
…He has too much hair. And an incredibly lame background. I had some fun exploring my brushes, though. I used some grunge brushes and even a blood spatter brush. Calligraphy brush for the white swirls, and of course the star brush on scatter.
Some kind of awesome swordsman for the artist-who-draws-cute-people, Maracate.
Now that I’m done, his face seems kind of off. : P
First of the sketch commissions, for Yllamse, fellow Wayrift fan. Hmm, why does this scenario seem like something exactly like what she’d draw herself? : D Not gonna lie, it was super fun to do.
This was my goodbye picture for my buddeh, Andrew, who I used to go running with. Unfortunately, I was out of inspiration, so I just scribbled this at midnight two days before I saw him. : P He said he liked it anyway.
Iiiiiiit’s Ryder! I should have just gone with a pencil sketch. I really should have. Anyway, this was traced from the Stage 2 win photo of Garmin. My brother likes this picture. Because it involves realism of a sort.
…I really should have gone with a pencil sketch.
Finished The Two Towers. On to RotK!
Felt like drawing a pretty pretty man without lines. Drew Lucci from Dreigiau/Darkstar. Started him in profile, got some good hair, realized that the profile view was not cutting it at all. For some reason I look at my profiles and see cyclopses now. It’s weird. Anyway, so I redid his face after I did the hair and it seemed to work. Threw in some wings, after I remembered that he has some.
How to draw without lines: draw your lineart like normal. Then throw a few layers on top at about 80% opacity. You’ll still see the lines but that should only last you long enough to put down the shading to create the shapes using… well, the good people use more paint. I just use dodge/burn, and it shows… but I use the blend tool also pretty liberally, so it turns out not too bad in the end, I think. (Then turn up your transparent layers back to 100% opacity. You may need to adjust the colour/saturation at that point.)
I think he could actually use more face on his right (our left) side. Also his shirt needs fixing. But whatever, it’s done now, I’m not touching it anymore tonight because I need to go to bed because I play for two churches tomorrow! And then I go to someone’s concert! And then I have to watch a race! So no spoilers! : )
Mwahahaha, behold my powers of fangirling. : P
The guy in front is supposed to be Ryder Hesjedal; following him is one of the Schleck brothers (pick your favourite 😉 ) and last but definitely not least is Cadel Evans. …And then there’s me.
My first time drawing a bicycle. : P Yus, I copy/pasted. Whatever. IT’S ALL FOR THE KAWAII.
Wow. Just wow. So many crashes today, and bad ones, too. I am shocked. I feel so bad for Hoogerland… I bet he pulls out. And poor Vino! He made such a great effort yesterday, and I was still looking forward to seeing him ride on. Phil and Paul say that with a broken pelvis, his cycling career is pretty much over; he was planning on making this his last Tour anyway, but it’s really sad to crash out (even dramatically). And then everyone else who went down… sending them hopes that they heal quickly!
BUT. Thomas Voeckler is the most adorasquee cyclist in the business. Andy’s cute, but Voeckler… wow. Did you see how happy he was?!?
Adorable griffon alert, if you haven’t already seen it.