ShineCero's Art Box

[ShineCero]

This is a re-creation of my original art thread, this time with more accurate (and surviving) links, and new content to bring out. If you want to request a drawing from me, you can head over for this thread: ShineCero Draws For You. I do not do commissions, I don’t need your pennies, folks!

I have been drawing for practically all my life; have done paintings, full scale drawings, even digital artwork when my tablets was still kicking. However, as of recent years, I’ve lost the spark and haven’t produce as much content. However, my spark returned, mainly, because I want to iron out in my skills even further to improve myself, and want to honor my Dad, since he always enjoy my works. 

I’m comfortable of replicating other kind of styles—of course, it will take me some time to do so. I am planning on a comic series called Good Days, a space fantasy story, so I will dump some character designs in the future.

Any who, I will be posting my artwork exclusive on this forum (and perhaps, sometimes on Twitter whenever a Redraw challenges occurs); so, don’t ask about any other social media sties to follow—I don’t have one (and not planning on doing so). I will also post “sketches” that will be use as a guideline for the final project—think of them as rough drafts. Once I finished the final projects, I will

the early drawing and compared with the finished product. I feel like it gives users a sense of satisfaction to see the differences between two artworks.

All and all, hope you can enjoy some of my artworks! It’s not as good in comparison to other artists, but I hope it’s good enough! Thanks for stopping by. 

Spoiler: Rosalina

I drew Rosalina from Nintendo's game, Super Mario Galaxy.

Spoiler: May and June

I was messing around with the ideas of "What if Months were waifus?" and these were the first creations of said idea. I might end up finishing all the other months in the upcoming weeks.

Spoiler: Suyoi's Father

Suyoi's Father was first created in a short comic, Box Samurai. Originally, I had an idea where a man, with a box on his head, goes around and killing all sorts of creatures in his world. Eventually, this idea was scrapped and tons of elements of that idea found its way to Good Days.

Spoiler: Abstract Art 1

Spoiler: Abstract Art 2

Spoiler: Abstract Art 3

As you can see... I love abstract artwork!

Spoiler: Perspectives

Drawing buildings and the sort is always a weakpoint of mines, but I felt this was good enough!

Spoiler: Frylock

Dancing is forbidden.

Spoiler: Life Drawing

I drew this woman for the Life Drawing Event competition. It was very difficult to drawn from realism, but it was good practice! I hope we can do another one of these things in the near future.

Spoiler: Destroyer End

The main antagonist for the story, Good Days. He's designed for absolute destruction... that is his purpose. When facing death, he will self-destruct his body to destroy the universe.

 

[ShineCero]

Here's some full-scale drawings I have done. I don't think I ever posted these anywhere, so this is the first time I'm showing them. My father would display them on the wall in the garage, so whenever he comes home and park his car, the first thing he would see is my artworks, which makes me feel pretty great. These are about 6 years old.

Spoiler: First Painting

Spoiler: Four Different Stages

Spoiler: mfw Tetsuo

Spoiler: Crying Heart

Spoiler: Red vs Khris

Spoiler: Chalked Skulls

 

[ShineCero]

Spoiler: Spina

Drew Spina for Reality Vortex, an free-for-all roleplay. He is a Saiyan that comes from a universe similar to the original Dragon Ball world, but his story takes place on another planet. He's rash, brutal and has a hard time giving others a chance to get close to him. He learned ancient water-based techniques and became a protector of a water-based planet, mainly because invaders kept trying to take over.

 

[ShineCero]

Spoiler: Heads

Spoiler: Heads

Spoiler: Heads

So I'm doing some practice of drawing heads to get into the swing of things. I'm not too impressed with my artwork, so I want to do some actual practice of expanding my skills by doing back to the basics.

 

[Appelsider]

Nice! And do you feel like it’s working or you personally? Cuz id lose interest in drawing if I forced myself to draw the same thing over and over.

 

[ShineCero]

Nice! And do you feel like it’s working or you personally? Cuz id lose interest in drawing if I forced myself to draw the same thing over and over.

Personally, it helped me improved at lot in terms of drawing heads.

When I attempt to do a drawing, I always look at the reference and try to replicate the best as I could. I study the structure, the pose and the movements. Yet, no matter what, it never came out how I thought it would. This is because I'm not attempting to understand it in a creative way--I'm going about it in a analytical way because the moment I spot mistakes, boom, my interest of finishing the piece just dies.

In this practice, it allows me to bypass the mistakes and instead, focusing on making the first head better. I learn the techniques, learn the shortcuts, and learned how to make better heads. I asked myself: "why is that?"

It's because, and I'll paraphrase the video I watched, I'm not understanding each different body part. If I attempt to draw an entire body without any understanding of how it works, how it used and how it goes together, it will come out sloppy. Perhaps those with natural talent won't have to worry about this, but those with brains that always look for mistakes, this is a good tool to break out of that habit AND understand those body parts.

 

[~ Z ~]

Nice work there Shine! I'm actually doing the same thing but I made a profile head view. I took advantage of my old sketchbooks and used them to practice. I finally got a knack for drawing profile views! I'm slowly trying to 'dissect' the profile body, making it so I draw each piece multiple times. I'm currently drawing out the chest from the side view and I'm getting an idea for it using basic shapes. I still need to practice these shapes some more but I think I'll be able to draw the profile view soon. I'm just super happy that I FINALLY got the 'side view' of a head down! Now it's super easy to do. You should post that video here, it could give people some inspiration.

 

[ShineCero]

Yeah, breaking it down piece by piece makes my brain absorbed the techniques at a much faster rate than simply looking at drawing tutorials on Twitter and most YouTube videos. I’ll post the video so other people can see what I learned:

Watching this video finally made my head clicked on the basic anatomy and shapes for a style that ins't just referencing some anime pics on google, but rather the methodology of how I go about these things.

 

[Elio]

Sycra's videos are very good! They helped me with colors a lot.

And those heads are looking really good Shine! It's always a good idea to go back to the basics.

 

[ShineCero]

Messing around with some doodles with Carnage Hero. It's pretty light, but here his sword, gauntlet and his face.

Spoiler: Carnage Hero

Originally, Carnage Hero was Kaiju Man, based around a plot that involves a man who has the power of kaijus fighting against, well, giant Japanese monster. As seen below:

Spoiler: Kaiju Man

However, I decided to ditch that plot in favor for this one (as practice) and rebooted his design. Turned his monster arms into gauntlet that repel against magic. Made his hair longer, and his made his features more distinctive and mature to better showcase his age (he's around his 30s). I'll post a full design once I get enough practice in. :thinking: