I feel like I’m so slow at art! It takes so long to paint!! Ugh!!! I wish I could just fake a WIP by blurring and painting over a photo but I do it all by hand!! 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰
(Final revision after revision, revision post crit, pre-crit) references included
So I reworked the water and hated it and went back to my original design with a few tweaks. I mostly smudged the water and changed the color grading a bit. Got some opinions irl about v 1 vs v 2 and the one with the greener dress (img 1) won out over the one with the whiter dress (img 2)
I am simply going to admit water is something I need to work on and am happy calling this my skill level atm
I’ve already posted this to my insta so I’m calling this one finished. I really like it regardless!
TLDR: To digress, I need to work on water, I like what I did, it’s not what I’d hoped I could achieve
Hello. I am back.
I have no idea how to paint water. Like, I've never painted water before. Not like this at least. Other times i've done water have been much simpler and much messier. And I am really really drawn to how the water looks like it's almost glowing in these reference images.
Does anyone have any advice or hacks or tips on how to make it look like water and not blue green brown grass? which is how i feel my painting looks right now. I just keep kind of throwing colors down but it's not really working how I'd like it to work.
The most work so far has gone into the breaking wave on the left, and is also my favorite bit of the water I’ve done. It's been like two hours that i've been chipping away at the waves and I just don't know what to do.
Also, the right hand doesn’t look quite right :(
Reference images are all from Pinterest
The entire bottom fourth of the drink is straight up caramel drizzle oml
Disclaimer: this type of character is meant to have only four toes and four fingers! So if it looks like she is missing a toe that is why 😛
This character reference belongs to paintpeelingoff on instagram.
(Reupload, ref included lol)
I’m still working on the second one, and I’m super exited to see how it turns out :)
(After, before)
So trying to do this sword killed me and I decided to go with the advice to do the sword straight on, and I think that worked the best! I was trying to do fancy perspective over and over again and it just wasn’t working. Sometimes a simple answer works best!
So, I’ve finished the piece! Super happy with it!!
But before I call it finished, does anything jump out that needs fixing!?
Thank you all!
(Inspo by miapichina on insta, ref is myself so I’m not sharing that 😛)
I’ve recently begun getting back into art. I typically would do traditional art before, mostly drawing in pencil and coloring with watercolor or copic markers. But now I’ve started doing digital exclusively, and I find myself unsure whether to call these paintings or drawings. At what stage does digital art become a painting?
Would this be classified as “painterly?”
Unfortunately I don’t have a reference as I don’t own a sword, and I’m not comfortable sharing the reference for the body as it is my own (lol)
But I am having trouble with making this sword look like it’s being magically summoned out of her chest as if viewed from below.
Additionally, any other critique is welcome on any other part of the painting! I will preface that this is a work in progress, so I have yet to refine details so if parts of this look blocky or unfinished that is why!
Art by me @mellie.iink on instagram :)
I finished this piece and then decided to take like 2 minutes to play around with some dots and lines and now I kind of like it but I’m not sure?
First image is after, second image is before.
Loose references:
https://pin.it/bxhDXHnaK
I think the changes worked well, specifically making the shadows more blue and doing a bit more touch up on the right sleeve, making it so more skin shows through to give the illusion of diaphanous fabric.
I’m also glad I introduced the word diaphanous to people! For those who didn’t know, it means sheer or transparent, often used to describe fabric like chiffon, or silk. (It’s also really commonly used in fantasy or historical books which is where I learned it lol)
Thank you to everyone who gave input!
The first piece is from February this year, and the second I finished today.
I think sketching using lines is what was holding me back. I recently did a lot of studies of classical art/old masters and I swear a key turned in my brain. Now I never start with a white canvas. I default to blocking in shapes and then carving them with the eraser instead of drawing outlines.
I think this is a really interesting step in how I’m learning, and is helping me understand volume and depth more truly. Without lines to guide, you have to really understand what you’re carving out on the canvas.
I recently got back into drawing after stopping in like 2018 and holy I love this so so much
Loose references:
https://pin.it/bxhDXHnaK
Mainly I want the sleeves to appear more like the third image. Is it coming across that way?
Updated photo is the first photo, original is the second photo
I’m not totally in love with this piece but I am ready to call it done. It’s cool in its own way, but a bit out of my comfort zone with such dramatic lighting. I also tried to experiment with brushes (specifically the pile brush for all the lines coming out in circles from the lamp.)
Thank you to those who left feedback on my original post!
Character ref tintagombart on instagram and photo reference I found on Pinterest w no attribution.
The updated version is the first image, the original is the second image.
This sub is a godsend! I couldn’t pin down what was off with my original but it was pointed out to me that I needed to change:
I am so so happy with how the edits came together!
Character reference was dd64\_46 on instagram and pose reference was Sylvie by Prosper d’Epinay
Character belongs to @dd64_46 on instagram. Reference was Sylvie by Prosper d’Èpinay. Art by me (@mellie.iink on instagram)