Jesse Orange (archive)

Tumblr has unflagged almost all of my posts but I still don't feel safe here. This blog won't be deleted, but will only be an archive for my 2015-2018 posts.

Good bye, well customizable site with great tags support. Hello, much less great DeviantArt and Twitter (sorry, I'm not in the mood for making more accounts so I decided to stick with these two sites for now).

Thank you all for being with me all that time! Love you. Yours truly, Jesse Orange.

Me one month ago: “I still feel too comfy on tumblr”.

Tumblr:

I really loved tumblr but it seems it’s time to leave. Just 17 of 207 posts were flagged in my blog which actually is not so much. But as someone said, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

And here are happy faces! And a hug for Bleodafi :3 According to the reference sheets, those character sizes are proper. But it's still so unusual to be the smaller one…

It's hard to draw happy faces so there's the sad one for a while.

Autumn.

Another collab with Sive! She made the sketch and I did the rest ^^

I'm so glad that there's finally a finished picture with both our characters! Behind the scenes there is the number of unfinished (and now outdated because of both characters redesigns) pictures.

Meanwhile I'm trying to simplify the art style to have less abandoned and more finished pictures. This picture has neither perfect outline nor detailed shading but it still looks nice which means the simplifying attempt was successful. Yay!

Collab with Sive. She turned my ugly sketch into something great, I can’t help posting it here even despite the fact that I did nothing to coloring ^^;

Some people say that tumblr is dying, and some say that twitter is a great platform for posting art. The first statement look believable, but I will never believe in the second one.

Though I don’t mind experimenting with new things so I joined that “amazing” world of .jpg:large pictures, 280 chars limitation, and non-editable posts as @JesseOrangeArt

This is an updated reference picture of my sona Jesse. I didn't want to upload this picture because the pose is not 100% mine (the sketch was drawn just for fun in the beginning of this year) but then it turned out that this poorly colored picture is still the best one that I have.

Since I moved away from ponies more than a year ago, I wanted to update my sona too. Behind the scenes Jesse was: a huge horse-like thing, a four-legged dragon, a two-legged dragon, a skinny Ori-like spirit... and in the end I stopped at this variant. It's really close to what I wanted to make to Jesse almost two years ago. That time I wasn't ready to change my character so much, and this time I am :D

Meet SiveTheSpirit and all the characters she made! Actually, there is not every character here, I included just finished ones. And I couldn't help including some little swamp spirits flying around.

This picture had to be uploaded a month ago at Sive's birthday but I didn't upload it for some reason. And it's here now.

Characters from left to right (excluding orange, yellowish, and another orange swamp spirits, they don't have names yet): Ava, Nox, Avry, Sive, Sim, Ive, Thuya.

Collab with SiveTheSpirit of Kiree, Galaxyykitten's character.

Just some random boring news. I wanted to put it in the description of my next picture but I got too much text so I extended it even more and now it's a separate post. Well, the news is I finally moved from Photoshop to other drawing app. To Krita, to be more precise. It's not as smooth as Photoshop is, but is still the way better than PaintStorm Studio.

One year ago I tried to move to PSS and even made some pictures in it. The first picture was nice to work at (Photoshop didn't have built-in brush stabilizer that time so smooth lines were hard to draw), but the last one was a true hell because it turned out that PSS is not really good at big resolutions (just checked, it still is at current 2.30 version). For example, it takes up to 3 seconds to toggle layer visibility on ≈5k×6k resolution with many layers. The fun thing is that both Photoshop and SAI (1 and 2) do that instantly on the same .psd file. Not sure if that's PSS or just I'm that lucky. PaintStorm Studio is pretty configurable and nice overall, but sadly, those downsides forced me to leave it.

This time I'm trying to use Krita and I already love it! It has some downsides like a different approach to clipping masks (two+ layers have to be grouped) and it still misses some Photoshop's features that I'm used to (i.e. I can't undock opened documents to make floating reference images, it's hard to get used to their “Reference Images Tool”) but that's not a big deal, Krita's upsides still win.

And, first of all, the biggest upside is brushes. I totally love them, thank David for making his great brushkit official! They all also have really nice, memorable, and exhaustive icons, I don't even want to put my favorite brushes into a separate category yet :D

Besides the brushes, I really loved the “Preserve Alpha” feature, it feels like some kind of instant clipping mask. Sadly that's a “destructive way” to work on pictures (that I'm not used to) but I still love that feature so much ^o^

The “Eraser Mode” is a pretty nice thing too, it's when the selected brush “draws” with transparent pixels. Frankly, I thought it can't be convenient, but it turned out it can when coloring and shading. It's still not a good idea to use the eraser mode when sketching though ^^;

And the last really great feature is “Shade Selector” which is a part of “Advanced Color Selector” docker. That thing is not really convent in configuring, but really satisfying in using! In short, it generates smooth gradient or specified count of colors that's based on the selected one. For example, if I pick, say, an orange color, it can generate a pickable gradient from dark red to light yellow (or from dark yellow to bright red, lol. So I have several selectors enabled). It can do not only that, but for me the shade selector is an amazing replacement for manually created shading color palette. At least for now.

My last picture is done in Krita, and those fluff and colors look different from what I'm used to draw (at least it feels so for me). I wasn't sure if I stay there, but I'm sure now. I hope nothing terrible will happen that would force me to leave that app. I don't say that Photoshop is awful, it's just me any my desire to try all the new things.

A little silly pic for @flame-spitter. Happy birthday, Flame!

Just a little random colored sketch of Sive's character Ava

Happy birthday, Lunar!