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Monday, June 16, 2014

Oiran

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Some weeks ago my friend Laura asked me if I wanted to order some art supplies with her, I finally did and I ordered a Prismacolor Blue 2H pencil and a pack of Sakura Pigma Micron fineliners. I got them yertserday, so I decided to give them a try.

At first I wasn't very happy with the pencil, I mean, I can see the blue better than the grey but it's more difficult to erase it although it's an special pencil for sketching but, anyway, it seems that the watercolors covered it pretty well. On the other hand, I'm very happy with the fineliners because they are water-resistant and they have a pretty dark color but, you need to be careful when you pass your eraser over it, because it'll eat the blacks!

About the drawing, I wantd to draw Chizuru Yukimura (from Hakuouki ~Shinsengumi Kitan~) on her Oiran (NOT GEISHA) outfit for a long time, so I though this would be the perfect opportunity. At first I thought I was going to die with all the details of her kimono, but I decided not to overload it with all the details and I ended up doing just the patterns on the red part of it.

I wanted to do it in a Art Nouveau style, since I love it A LOT, so I searched for some frame refferences until I got this. I must say that I'm pretty proud of it, since I had to remove the dust from my compass tool, which I hadn't used for years!

The piece was painted using water colors and some metallic pencils and markers for the details.

Of course, I had to edit the colors A LOT to make them look better once I scanned it, here's a comparisson between the unedited piece and the edited one (you must know that scanners ALWAYS kills the colors! so a bit of edditing is always reccomended). At the end I decied to add some japanese patterns to the background.


Banshee

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This drawing started as a quick doodle that I had in mind for several months. At first I thought of painting it using phoroshop, but one day I found some curious tutorials made by agent-lapin @ deviantART and I decided to give them a Try.

I wans't going to follow ALL the instructions of the tutorial, just some which I thought the would give a different look to the piece, and this is the final result.

What I actually made was to blend part of the lines into the skin/hair, so it wouldn't have any kind of anime/comic style, and I must say that I'm pretty proud of how it ame out. Of corse, I had to make some fixes to the drawing, specially her chin. Here I leave you a Before and After screenshot:


Thursday, June 12, 2014

Exotic Dancer

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Guess what? Yes, I forgot to update, again xDDD.

This time I wanted to draw something static but with a bit of movement and flow. I really enjoyed drawing all the fabrics of the skirt and the curves of her belly. I also wanted to make somthing colorful, That's why I used lots of gradients on her clothes.

Since I also wanted to give her an exotic look, I decided to create contrast between her skin and her hair, which I whink it looks kinda pretty.

For this piece I used the airbrush tool to make the lineart, and I like a lot the result because I think it looks smoother and less sharp. Here I leave you an screenshot of her face and torso and the speedpaint: