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Doing the week 1 challenge for June's @artworkout2026 - a still life!

Below is my photoshopped ref for anyone curious.

I would have liked to spend longer on this, but tbh I'm looking for some easy wins

(but clipped up because uh. you know.)

I like how well charcoal brushes and paper texture worked for Nona's portrait and RxL close up. Repeating it was a matter of time.

For @artworkout2026 Third Week of May: torso/muscles. I am really glad you're doing it, it's the first challenge I commited to this much 🖤

You can grab the nsft version here!

Thanks @artworkout2026 as always for hosting.

I cheated and did this one without Riley's tattoos because I'm lazy and tired tonight. @sorcerousadventurer can beat me for it later

Anyway I kind of did something fun. First photo is a messy middle. Second photo is the more finished piece though still not 100%

So when I render in my style I sketch out the outline. Then I add a layer. Do a base color. And throw in a bunch of shadows and highlights. So you get something that looks like this. Ideally I should have done the arms and torso on a different layer and the merged, but one day i will learn my lesson.

Then I start blending.

You can see higher contrast on the neck and arms. That's because I did not blend those as hard. You HAVE to trust the process. If you overblend you get the torso. Which looks ok just flatter. I left it like this though because I like showing what happens when you mess up. A lot of it is just...going with feeling. And what looks good. Yeah I think this should be darker and this should be lighter and sometimes I mess up and heavy blend and then throw colors back in and do it again

And then I hide the lines and smooth my edges and yeah. This.

I hate hands. this was hell. please someone save me from hands. can we go back to feet? I liked feet. quote me on that @artworkout2026.

hands

Full NSFT image below the cut because I can do @artworkout2026 and be a raging pervert at the same time

Thanks @artworkout2026 for hosting. I had other plans and then idk. Not really feeling things lately. So changed it up

So quick freehand (hehe) sketch of an articulated hand. Proportions are a tiny bit off but overall happy

I guess I will take a moment to talk. Normally if I freehand something I just...pick a point and start drawing. @sorcerousadventurer has sent me tons of 'how to' guides and I understand none of them. My creative process involves a lot of caffeine, music, and erasing. No one taught me how to draw ever so I just...make myself do it. It's not great but it's mine and unlike AI I at least have the correct number of fingers.

If I continued this I would add a layer, clean trace, and start rendering. Which is where I might fix some of my scaling issues. But for now I'm fine with this so let the potato go.

Hands - May Week 2 of @artworkout2026

I used to hate drawing hands, but I grew very fond of it :D

"Don't bother, it's just a flesh wound."

"That can still get infected. Give me your hand."

"There's no need to waste your magic on me."

"It's not a waste, dumbass. Now please. Your. Hand."

"If you insist."

"Good boy."

I've decided to do all the challenges for @artworkout2026 in one image, and this week the focus is feet

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