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Post by Breakingchains on Jul 8, 2017 3:15:48 GMT -5
(Yes, I stole the title from a Ruby, etc. comic) * I am in no way artistically inclined, at least not with traditional 2D art. But I have been drawing a lot more lately, especially while I try to get all my embarrassingly ancient crunchy pet lookups redone, so I thought I'd make a thread to keep it kinda mostly in one place. Criticism is actively encouraged and will be welcomed with open arms and free brownies, which are not laced with anything. I promise. Here, have some old Wezsley art to start with. Wezsley is super easy to draw so that's like the least embarrassing thing I have. * (Formerly "Heh Heh this is terrible I must show it at the world") |
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Post by Breakingchains on Jul 8, 2017 3:28:22 GMT -5
And here's a couple recent ones, from just this past week in fact. I have six permanent pets and I've been reaaaaaally needing to fix everybody's lookups, so I started with Wezsley and Vahleska. Here's both their pet lookup images, with original sketches. And this week I learned that lupes are crazy hard to draw. Seriously I do not understand these interwebs 12-year-olds who can draw these super realistic wolves like what even. (also I had no idea how to approach the paw pads so I was just like WELP MUPPET FEET IT IS.) |
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Post by Breakingchains on Jul 8, 2017 15:56:26 GMT -5
Today I learned that taking pictures as I sketch is super helpful, because each time I complete a phase I've inevitably altered something from the last phase, so having that reference tips me off when I've done something like mess up the head shape while working on the hair. |
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Post by Breakingchains on Jul 9, 2017 13:55:09 GMT -5
Don't mean to spam this one art piece but I'm just having a lot of fun playing with different versions of it. It's just been so long since I actually attempted to art on a regular basis and now I'm on a power trip lawl. I think I'm digging heavy shading + limited palette. It's fun to do and it gives things weight without asking that I actually coordinate a full color palette, which I am Bad At™. |
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Post by Breakingchains on Jul 12, 2017 2:30:29 GMT -5
Ha! I bet y'all thought I was done! (preliminary sketch) |
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Post by Breakingchains on Sept 2, 2017 20:43:23 GMT -5
It's been like two months here's a Lambert WIP I've also got a deviantart now so once I get some stuff set up I'll start putting my art there too EDIT: deviantart. Nothing new there that isn't in this thread but just so you know it exists lol |
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Post by Breakingchains on Dec 2, 2017 20:58:52 GMT -5
Super crunchy photo but I'm working on anatomy again I'm getting to where I'm scared to actually ink and color these because they always seem to lose fluidity |
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Post by Breakingchains on Dec 12, 2017 19:57:22 GMT -5
Re: the sculpting I occasionally do, I made a test piece for a weathering technique I got from a Josh Foreman youtube tutorial, in preparation for a gift I'm making for someone. I think it looks pretty sweet, and it just requires any old black and white acrylic paint. Might end up using this piece as an embellishment on something else. |
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Post by Twillie on Dec 12, 2017 20:06:04 GMT -5
That does look really sweet! The flower part is really impressive with the shape and petals, and the coloring on it makes it look like a neat little rustic piece of metal work :3
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Post by Breakingchains on Dec 13, 2017 14:01:09 GMT -5
This is probably way early for a preview but I like these so have some rough blocked-in Cthulhu feets with grabby eldritch frog toes |
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Post by Breakingchains on Dec 25, 2017 22:10:34 GMT -5
Lucky Cthulhu is finished! I made this for a friend for Christmas over the course of about ten days. I think she liked it! Details: Roughs and process notes, for those interested: - Materials: sculpey firm (gray), sculpey III (bronze + brown), wooden plaque, black and white outdoor-safe acrylics, foil + paperclips + nails for armature, furniture sliders for base - Wings roughly copied from bat anatomy. Haunches are basically frog + human anatomy. The slope of the head is taken from an octopus, or more specifically, what happens to an octopus on land. The feet are more lizard-based while the hands are fairly human aside from finger count.  - The text on the pedestal is copied from Lovecraft's original Cthulhu sketch. Pedestal was the first piece to be completed and was cured separately, since the rest of the sculpture was going to need the support.  - The planet prop was the second thing to be sculpted. I ended up swapping the colors on it when I realized I liked the light-on-dark better than the other way around. I used a world map for reference and basically just did a lot of little fiddly toolwork to get it into a recognizable shape  - Torso was assembled with various muscle layers and a lot of blending. The back got more detail than the front, as it would be exposed.  - The lower limbs, torso and right arm were assembled and then cured as a separate unit. This is because while the clay was uncured, the hips kept trying to break beneath any additional weight. By curing them first I was also able to attach the left arm and head without worrying about wiping out any of my previous work while I was blending. This was an assembly test, and where I first realized "hey I think this is going to look decent." The whole thing had been in separate pieces up until now and at this point I was able to see how it was going to come together.  - I managed to create a natural tear on the edges of the wings by squashing the outer edge of the clay paper-thin and stressing it further with a metal tool, then peeling it up from the work surface to leave the edges in tatters. This being the most fragile part of the sculpture, it's also one of the most heavily armatured.   - While in progress, the feet mostly had to be stored upside-down to avoid losing detail. Here's a nifty little before-and-after for the detail work, also.  - I started testing the pose and balance very early to make sure the statue would sit properly by the time I was done with it. This was where I realized I was going to need to sink the haunches lower to allow for more armature and roughly figured out how the torso was going to attach.   - Finally, these shots are from after curing but before the paint wash. I've corrected the right wrist and carefully arranged the tentacles in advantageous ways to cover certain rough spots and show off the globe. These pictures make it look like I painted the base with the statue attached but I actually didn't--the first is a separate, unsanded base I was using for posing, whereas the painted base had already been completed and was sitting off to the side because I didn't want to risk getting raw polymer clay on it. oooooof that project was crazy |
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Post by Moni on Dec 27, 2017 1:56:30 GMT -5
Cthulu! He looks so cute! (It's because he's small and tiny. He looks fine, in terms of Cthulu-rawr-mythos.) Oddly enough, Lovecraft's original Cthulu sketch kind of looks adorable too... maybe I've seen him so much he's lost his effect on me. x)
But anyway!!! I'm sure your friend was super happy with Cthulu--you've put a lot of work in it. I think my favorite part is the wings, they look so... torn and organic, and it took a really ingenious trick to get them to look that way!
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Post by Breakingchains on Aug 5, 2018 11:57:20 GMT -5
 Was commissioned by a family member to sculpt some "Small Potatoes" characters as cake toppers for my baby niece's first birthday! The problem with super simple characters like this is that the tiniest change in details just looks "off". I think I pretty much got it though. I'm disturbed by the orange one's thousand-yard stare but she really looks like that in the show so IDK xD |
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Aug 5, 2018 13:00:10 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with the characters, but these are ADORABLE! XD Great job! That will be a very cute cake, I bet!
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Post by Breakingchains on Aug 5, 2018 18:09:18 GMT -5
 It was! They got the cutest cake possibly ever and put the potatoes in a little vegetable patch. xD Thank you! |
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