Carmilla The Vampire Queen

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Lately I've been playing the first Castlvania Lords of Shadow, and I've really enjoyed it! I always wanted to play any Castlevania title, and Lords of Shadows gave me the big opportunity to do it xD.

I decided to draw Carmilla not only because I like vampires (the old school ones), but also because I fell in love with her human form design! she's such a beautiful yet deadly female.

At first I made a previous sketch that I didn't liked at all, that's why I decided to make another one, and this came out. I wanted to reflect her sensual figure, but also her deadli side, that's why she has dome blood on her left hand. 

I also had to make a lot of research no only for her outfit, but I also had to search for tons of gothic building references in order to draw the window as accurate as possible (Carmilla's Castle from the first LoS is a gothic one). For drawing Carmilla, I wanted to stay as away as possible from my anime style.

I don't know how many time it took me to draw the whole piece, but it took me about 4 hours to paint it. Here you can see the two Speed Paint Videos I made (and it's the first time that I've recorded me while painting the whole background):

[Video Tutorial] Painting Hair on Sai

I've finally decided to make a new tutorial, this time I'll be showing you my way of painting hair using Paint Tool Sai.

Remember that you can watch the video either with english or spanish subtitles!

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Brush Tool Settings

Min. Heigth 13%

Density 35-45%

Blending 68

Persistency 79

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[Lightning Returns FB Contest] Shadow Chaser

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Some weeks ago Koch Media Spain hold another Lightning Returns design contest. We also had to design her a new armor, but this time we didn't had the sames restrictions as on deviantART.

I decided to draw her wearing some kinf od "light" armor, as she only uses a breastplate and a shoulderguard. At first I thought that the breastplate came out a bit plain, that's why I added that kind of pattern to it, and I think it looks pretty good. I also wanted to keep something roman-alike , ans that's why I added the rope on the sides and the middle of the outfit. She also uses a blue transparent cape with an swirly pattern on the bottom part of it.

Since it's an spear based armor, it doesn't hsa a very big/heavy shield, but a simple armguard with claws on the top. The armor is very light, so she can move quicly, and it's water/wind elemental.

This desing didn't won, as in deviantART. It seems that you need to design a battle bikini in order to win.

[Practise] What r u lookin' at?

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Wow! It's been a long time since I last updated this~

Lately I've been practicing some things such as painting using photoshop and drawing male bodies. This piece is part of those practices. I can't say that I'm really satisfied with the results, but at the same time I'm not unsatisfied...it's a bit weird xD.

Anyway, while doing this I discovered that painting using photoshop is way more harder that using say, because you need to use the dropper tool a lot, and you can get thing wrong if you don't use it properly.

For making this piece, I used sandara's and  DanLuVisiArt's brushes.

You can see some of my practices here.