LoopyPanda
Black Jacket
I admire your productivity, Pinkey! The volume of pictures you've made would be probably be months worth of work when measured against my capability to complete any drawings. Do you prefer to finish pieces in one sitting or is it more common for you to be working on multiple at once? Assuming you don't try to give yourself a timed session or anything like that. The Sora piece came out really great (Nomura really liked the Layered Outfit trend that was around for KH2 lol). I hope you had a little fun doodling the Don Patch I suggested yesterday, I saved it hehe :3
You should do that "A Year of Art" summary meme everyone always does at the end of the year! If you haven't heard of it, you basically grab a template off dA or imagesearch and for every empty space, from January to December, you stick in the top favorite drawing of that month. It's a very comprehensive way of assessing how one improved if they were able to complete at least one per month. Might give you new insight on what to practice too!
I see that most of the time you do flats with simple shading; one tip that really changed my process was moving away from shading with plain gray or similarly muted colors and setting it to multiply/shade for the shadows-- after it was pointed out to me, I was very accustomed to shading my art the way anime tends to shade and it seemed to make something about the final product look more dull. So I started picking colors of different hues based on the main palette I gave my person while trying to stay away from the 'muddy' bottom left side of the hue block: it probably isn't exactly following any rules of color theory because I just choose the color that helps add depth or lets the other colors come out nicely. It feels more freeing that way I guess to be spontaneous about it! Playing with the brush texture for shading/highlights is also quite fun for adding more dimension to things like hair and clothes.
You should do that "A Year of Art" summary meme everyone always does at the end of the year! If you haven't heard of it, you basically grab a template off dA or imagesearch and for every empty space, from January to December, you stick in the top favorite drawing of that month. It's a very comprehensive way of assessing how one improved if they were able to complete at least one per month. Might give you new insight on what to practice too!
I see that most of the time you do flats with simple shading; one tip that really changed my process was moving away from shading with plain gray or similarly muted colors and setting it to multiply/shade for the shadows-- after it was pointed out to me, I was very accustomed to shading my art the way anime tends to shade and it seemed to make something about the final product look more dull. So I started picking colors of different hues based on the main palette I gave my person while trying to stay away from the 'muddy' bottom left side of the hue block: it probably isn't exactly following any rules of color theory because I just choose the color that helps add depth or lets the other colors come out nicely. It feels more freeing that way I guess to be spontaneous about it! Playing with the brush texture for shading/highlights is also quite fun for adding more dimension to things like hair and clothes.
I envy people who managed to do one for each month XD
