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Newbie Artists training Grounds Day 26

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"This is our daughter" and I bring this out

House of the Dragon part ten, final - Silverwing.

— You will be death of me...

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Quick little video tutorial! This is a method I use to block in shapes when I’m fighting the urge to polish my lineart at an early stage, especially in rough concept art that doesn’t actually need polished lineart.

I group two layers in photoshop—a rough sketch, and a flat color—and then carve out the negative space by painting into a mask on the group, instead of filling in the positive shapes. From there I can start painting and adding shading into that group, knowing that I’ve already locked down a good initial silhouette for the object/character:

It feels like oil painting, and I end up finding silhouettes/shapes in a way I wouldn’t if I was obsessively cleaning up the linework first. Digital art has a tendency to veer towards cleanliness/polish, so I love finding little opportunities for happy accidents and a bit of mess!

I used it on my unicorn piece last month, for instance, which I think would have lost a lot of its dynamism and charm if I had worried too much about doing a full ink pass:

I follow your art for a little while now. I think it's so extremely cool to have someone who worked on Castlevania the animated serie (aka the most gorgeous to me!) that do fanart for my fav game (and maybe my fav BG companion? Very close to Gale anyway)

I think your Oc is gorgeous too. I just adore red hair with thick wavy hair... He's so delicate!

I want to binge everything I can find on them, but from the beginning. I admit I skipped a bit of their lore to focus on your art, but I'm interested!

What's the very iteration of them? Their first drawing? Do you have a place were you stock informations about them? Do you recommend to be followed here on tumblr or twitter or other?

Thank you!

This is so sweet to hear, thank you ;; Clover made his appearance last year:

It's always interesting looking back on how I first draw a character. I can see myself feeling it out because I don't know them very well yet.

I'm endlessly touched by you all who have shown interest in him as a person ❤️ I can't communicate the depth of happiness that makes me feel. I have to work my tail off before my trip at the end of the month, but after that the plan is to make like a Clover lore masterpost that I update as needed.