doin shading exercises and it's pretty remarkable the effect vs effort
What a lucky day it is!
Did you cats know about this? The ice gets pushed around by the waves and keeps refreezing so it forms a bunch of peaks and valleys. You can walk on it but you really shouldn't. Hard to tell where the ice is weak. Sometimes it forms little "volcanoes" where the water will splash out the top and stuff.
What are some unusual natural formations around you?
I drew a guy with a mustache and just kept going.
rides a dinosaur in a sci-fi style, part of a great horde that stretches across the alien steppe.
He turns into a bear when he gets hurt.
Messin around with diferent hair stuff. Don't really love any of it. Axe is too high on the neck. Line weight is more even though. Hands are less terrible than previous.
In the course of drawing this I realized that I could have been using the selection lasso to mask areas to paint the entire time I have been using this fucking program. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me before that that might be really nice for these watercolor brushes.
Anyway these ladies claim to be literal descendants of the Sun. Maybe they're right, I dunno.
Messing around with the gradient was fun. I still think my backgrounds are mostly bad, but at least there's something kinda cool going on.
This guy is a thunder priest who also turns into a bear, also he's one of the larger and stronger humans called a Chud. It's pronounced like chood though I think. The previous character, the Son of Heaven, is also a Chud, but he's part of the settled side of the Rus, whereas this is a woods type of guy.
I'm really enjoying this little project. I can feel my confidence with these brushes growing a lot and the successive drawings going much more smoothly and faster. I let myself get a little more fun with the pose since the last one was looking pretty staid.
The Rus Series continues with this fella. I think it didn't turn out very well, but I redid the coloring once and at some point you gotta move on. His foreshortened arm is really fucked up too, oh well.
I'm hoping that when put next to the smaller characters he'll look more impressive. At a certain point he was supposed to have some intricate embroidery, but I couldn't really make it work with these brushes. Maybe I'll go back at some point, or maybe I will not.
More from the Rus series.
Still would love to find some really good watercolor brushes for Krita, but what I have sorta work; I did get a new inking brush today that I used here and I quite like.
It's interesting trying to imagine the fashion of a fantasy people based on pre-Viking Baltics and western Russia. The historical record is pretty limited to nonexistant that I could find before ~900. I like his little drape thing though, the pattern turned out quite nice - I tried to make it feasible to produce by weaving.
More dominions fanart, want to do a bigger piece with the EA Rus lineup. Have been having trouble getting sources about what the arms and armor or fashion of pre-Viking East Slavic and Baltic peoples were, but I did my best. I know it's very loose, but there's something about the character of my sketches that I really miss when I render them.
Is it worth playing solo?