paprika

Hi Tumblr!!! Ugh I have been neglecting to post here BIGTIME. This is the first time I’ve logged in in almost a year! For anyone who has stuck around with this account, thank you SO much, and also I would like to announce that I am going to become active on here again!

Lately I’ve only been posting my new work on Instagram and Twitter (you can find me on those platforms here and here), but I want to start adding Tumblr back into the mix. So here is a small dump of some of the work I’ve done recently! If you’d like to see more from the past year, please head over to my Twitter or Insta. And moving forward, you can expect to see me posting new work on here again in the coming weeks.

Hey dude! Thanks for your message and I’m so glad to hear you like my designs!! I have been considering selling some of my drawings as prints/stickers, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet as I’ve had a very busy year thus far with freelance work. But rest assured I will be setting up an online shop sometime in the future! .... It just might take a while for me to get around to it so I appreciate your patience ^^;; 

Hey, thanks for your message! I’m glad to hear you like my work. ^^ Achieving any kind of line variation on a tablet or Cinqtiq is certainly tricky, and I think a lot of it just comes from long practice drawing digitally. That being said, I have discovered a couple of tricks that have helped me. (Disclaimer, I draw in Photoshop so these are going to be PS tricks.) 

1) Stumpy Pencil is my favorite Photoshop brush! It’s really natural-looking, and easy to use. You can download it for free here.  Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the download link. Any of Kyle T. Webster’s brush sets are also great, I use those all the time depending on what style of illustration I’m going for.

2) When I’m using Stumpy Pencil, or any other kind of PS brush, and I am not satisfied with the line-width variation, I usually open up my “Brush” panel and go into “Shape Dynamics”. I like to set the Minimum Diameter to zero, as well as turn on Minimum Roundness to “pen pressure” and set it to zero. That usually gives a nice fine, crisp lineweight that has a lot of variation depending on your pen pressure. You can make ink lines even crisper by making sure “Transfer” is un-checked, which gets rid of any opacity jitter.

3) You could also try messing with the pressure settings on your tablet. If you go into your Wacom tablet settings under the Control Panel/System Preferences menu of your computer, there should be a slider that allows you to designate how “hard” or “soft” you want your nib to be. I usually have mine set slightly firm.

Hey guys, here are some character designs I did for the teaser trailer for Bandai Namco’s upcoming project! You can view the animation > here! <

A few of these are just character exporations/sketches, and a few are the finished designs that I created for animation reference. You don’t actually see most of the characters head-on in the trailer itself, but we wanted to have full turnarounds mainly just for visual development purposes. Plus they were just super fun to draw lol.