Maru draws

BaroRyuu upon thee.

Ryuu is simply acquainted with what those fingers do.

I'm trying the settings you shared years ago, but when I try to put one color over the other, it blends and comes out much less saturated than the original color.

I'm not sure if there's something I'm missing, I'm still learning how to finagle with colors, but when I watch your speedpaint, the blue comes out as the color selected, without just blending into the colors that are already there and turning out desaturated.

Sorry if this isn't really clear, I didn't know how to explain/describe it.

Hi, Anon!

I'm using CSP now, so I'll be taking screenshots from it. Below is an example drawn with my current brush set up and how i use it.

(Barok profile again, its just very shapely and easy to draw very quickly for examples)

Ah. I usually stream as a spur of the moment thing, so at most I might give an hour warning on a day I do stream on bsky (sometimes on here too). Though, I do delete the link to streams and whatnot when it ends. I personally use picarto.tv to stream, so maybe if you follow me there, you'd get notifications when it starts, but then you run into the problem of no warning again.

Baroryuus, as requested, posted here too. The last one is Ryuu-chan topping, ofc : ) I'm sure you can tell who said to use that image for blocking.

Drawn for the brry12moons prompt home on bsky! Home is where the heart is. Happy Valentine's in advanced🫀🫀

Here are the other sketches before I settled on just this. I thought of making the heart be the prosecutor badge's red diamond for that Ryuu showing Barok Justice imagery and reinstating his faith but it felt too busy and I just didn't like the way it was going at that moment.

I’m trying to push away from anime influences and lean towards a more stylized but somewhat realistic style

Eh, "general" rule of thumb is to space them about one eye away from each other. There's also that rule that faces are split in 3 with the nose being about the middle of the face and ears going from eye corner to mouth corner and the mouth spans the length from the center of one eye to another(quick drawing to show those "rules").

Now. There are "general rules" not reality- I don't really use them myself. People can have more or less space between their eyes, higher or lower noses, wider or smaller mouths. It'll require practice, and you should do so by drawing real people with reference. Learn how skeletons look like and what the most obvious muscles/fat deposits are by simplifying the shapes of it until you get it, or by observatio. That would also help you know how to plane things.

After you have a general idea of how what's under the skin works, then you know how the shadows/depths of it would work, so you can skip to just this:

You want to draw real people- don't bother with the current popular hollywood or influence celebrities. They have a lot of work done (or higher chance of it), you won't see the breadth of possible features and their combination on a face as well as how they look like at different angles (or know how to 3D rotate them yourself to know what type of reference to look for). That way, you'll have more features under your toolbelt to build a character's face to reflect how you read their attributes. (ok I'm exaggerating, you can look at them some times, but your artistic skill and imagination as well as "what does a general person look like" would suffer severely if they are your only examples faces)

Never forget to have fun.

If you are practicing on PC, remember you can always play with the layers to see how your drawing matches. I would say to do that after as a check your homework after you referenced by looking.

Also I'm going to paint or slightly colour, I try to get the shadows plane right from the getgo- it'll pretty much break or make your face and if Idont get those shadows right at first then I'll have a nightmare of a time getting the features right after.

I didnt draw the details of Barok's face in the drawing below until after I got the shadows right so like I did most of the skin texture (the left skin texture TM is a re-creation of what I did- this barok is from November. That's also why theres a random skull, it's from a doodle layer)