forum I need some character art!

Started March 07, 2019 by @Court.At.Hogwarts

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Ummmm I'm not too sure what you could do for her pose… Anything can really work, she does have a border coile too so maybe something to with with him?

Well there's no border collie (turns out I'm crap at drawing animals) but she does look kind of teacherish? I think?
(I'm not perfectly happy with this one either, tbh, since the expression seems kinda generic and idk
but yeah)
Here you go! Is it ok? Anything glaringly wrong that you'd like me to change?
If not, I'm going to look at other people's requests before I return to your most recent one. So for now, it's been a pleasure drawing your characters and I wish you all the best with your writing!

It looks great, thank you so much, good luck on the other drawings!

@ninja_violinist, Hi! I do most of that myself and I like your style. Can I ask you a few questions about how you draw things?

@"M.W.Poel" Yeah, sure! Though be ye warned - most of the time I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing

@"Court.At.Hogwarts"Hey so I attempted Morana, how do you like it?

@ninja_violinist that's fine, I mostly have some general questions.

1. do you use photoshop or another program to draw?
2. What sort of brush do you use for the lines or how do you make the line art if not photoshop?
3. How do you make the shadows?
4. How do you draw lips with and without make-up??? I always fail at those.

1) I use Krita - it's a free, high-quality open source art software because I'm too broke for photoshop.
2) On krita, I use some of the basic brush sets (Ink-3_Gpen) as well custom brush sets from the krita community. Idk I actually kind of just go around and use whatever brush I feel like, tbh
3) Shading is such a huge topic - generally I attempt to stick to a single light source, which I try to determine beforehand (often by adding a gradient in the background just to stay clear throughout the whole thing). Biggest source of error is making shadows just blacker than the base colour. If the light source is warm, shadows are cold and vice versa - so if the light source is natural light (warm), then shadows go bluer and darker on the color wheel and highlights go warmer/lighter. I hope that helps?
4) ?????? I wish I knew
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I usually steer very clear of lips, but I'm trying to challenge myself so I figured I'd attempt them on these characters?
yeah I have absolutely no idea… so if you do find out somewhere else, do you think you could tell me?

@"Court.At.Hogwarts"Hey so I attempted Morana, how do you like it?

I LOVE it so much oml, seeing this character in art is amazing, but do you think that you could add a bit more Victorian goth to her style, and have it all be black? She is a death eater and most of the time wears a cloak, is that too much to ask for? I'm VERY impressed by your skills with the tattoos well done 👏👏👏 lol

Yeah, no worries!
My main issue with making her all black was that there wasn't really a lot of contrast with the hair. So I didn't want to make her just a black smudge in the landscape if you know what I mean, but I'll look into it and see what I can do!
When you say death eater cloak, my immediate thought is floor length graduation gown which would obviously cover any of her other clothing. Do you think you could specify her outfit a bit, or even give me a place to find references?

1) I use Krita - it's a free, high-quality open source art software because I'm too broke for photoshop.

Yeah, I only have photoshop because it's essential to my study and I have friends who found a good 'free' version for me. I'll check out Krita then. if it's a bit similar I should be able to do it.

3) Shading is such a huge topic - generally I attempt to stick to a single light source, which I try to determine beforehand (often by adding a gradient in the background just to stay clear throughout the whole thing). Biggest source of error is making shadows just blacker than the base colour. If the light source is warm, shadows are cold and vice versa - so if the light source is natural light (warm), then shadows go bluer and darker on the color wheel and highlights go warmer/lighter. I hope that helps?

that's luckily sort of similar to what I do with the cold shadow and stuff, probably just need some more practice then.

4) ?????? I wish I knew
like
I usually steer very clear of lips, but I'm trying to challenge myself so I figured I'd attempt them on these characters?
yeah I have absolutely no idea… so if you do find out somewhere else, do you think you could tell me?

Well, could have fould me. It looks very good in the drawings. :) I'll let you know when I find something though.

GASP!!!! I love the brushes in Krita! it's so clear what to expect and logical too! thanks for the tip!

Yeah, no worries!
My main issue with making her all black was that there wasn't really a lot of contrast with the hair. So I didn't want to make her just a black smudge in the landscape if you know what I mean, but I'll look into it and see what I can do!
When you say death eater cloak, my immediate thought is floor length graduation gown which would obviously cover any of her other clothing. Do you think you could specify her outfit a bit, or even give me a place to find references?

Yeah of course! I added another photo to her character gallery if that helps, also do you think you could have her holding a mask? I added a photo of that too if you think you can do it, and if you can't that's completely okay, as for the photo it doesnt show her lower half, but I feel like she wears black pants with the cloak tied around her waist and just falling to the side, it can be a dark grey too to be able to tell that it's a different price of clothing, and she most likely wears knee high combat boots with heels, I hope that isn't too much…

Yeah, no worries!
My main issue with making her all black was that there wasn't really a lot of contrast with the hair. So I didn't want to make her just a black smudge in the landscape if you know what I mean, but I'll look into it and see what I can do!
When you say death eater cloak, my immediate thought is floor length graduation gown which would obviously cover any of her other clothing. Do you think you could specify her outfit a bit, or even give me a place to find references?

Yeah of course! I added another photo to her character gallery if that helps, also do you think you could have her holding a mask? I added a photo of that too if you think you can do it, and if you can't that's completely okay, as for the photo it doesnt show her lower half, but I feel like she wears black pants with the cloak tied around her waist and just falling to the side, it can be a dark grey too to be able to tell that it's a different price of clothing, and she most likely wears knee high combat boots with heels, I hope that isn't too much…

And as for the sleeves of her shirt, the length there are at right know is perfect

Sounds good! I'll see what I can do and get back to you on that!

hi!! i hate to bother you, but could you maybe draw my girl satomi?? if not, that's totally cool, but i love your art so i thought i'd ask! thank you!

@alrightellie Hi! I'm generally up for drawing characters but in your case I'd recommend developing Satomi further before I draw her. I noticed that she doesn't have any physical descriptions or personality laid out on her page yet - I hope you understand why that would make her difficult to draw =)

@alrightellie Hi! I'm generally up for drawing characters but in your case I'd recommend developing Satomi further before I draw her. I noticed that she doesn't have any physical descriptions or personality laid out on her page yet - I hope you understand why that would make her difficult to draw =)

oh frick i totally forgot that i haven't added anything to her page yet LMAO i've got her pretty developed i just haven't put it on here

Hiiiiiiii! I was wondering if you could draw my character! Sorry for asking, but here Tanaya is:

@ninja_violinist If you don't mind me asking, would you want to draw my characters? I've seen a couple characters you've drawn and I LOVE your style!
Thank you!!

Hey y'all I'm flattered by your interest! But I'm pretty busy and I have a hard time keeping track of character requests, especially if they get lost in various threads. It's also kind of weird if poor @"Court.At.Hogwarts" gets a notification every time someone asks me to draw a character…
If you're interested I recommend sending me a PM so I can keep track of stuff and I'll see when I get to it. I wouldn't expect anything before Easter though, I hope you understand =)

@Fangirl_07_
I feel like maybe you've asked me to draw your character in the distant past?? maybe in a different thread? I definitely remember having looked at her before this
either way, I was procrastinating and I drew Tanaya and you're currently un-pmable, so uh
here you go, I guess
have a great day

(I just realised I forgot her gloves……………. big oof) (sorry about that)

OH MY GOSH THAT IS SO GOOD THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! :)

That's absolutely fantastic!

I'm glad you like it =)