Shortcake Liz

“Phasma had the armor polished in chromium, which had been salvaged from a Naboo yacht that had once belonged to Emperor Palpatine of the Galactic Empire, the First Order’s precursor.”

phasma has spent like all her life in the first order, as a storm trooper. you ask any storm trooper ‘what would be the sexiest possible modification to your armor’ and none of them are going to say ‘cut a boob window’ they’re gonna say ‘plate it with something HARDCORE’. 

I justttt started up that piece again so hopefully i can show it soon but–

i actually learned point perspective at like. age 6 because i was tired of drawing cube houses during recess. obviously learning how to do that might be best, but i’m still shaky on putting people into perspective drawn settings, so i cheat a lot 

photoshop has a transform > perspective tool that i used in that drawing. so first i drew up a vague floor plan: 

the double lines are an outer wall i knew would block the view there entirely, so anything above that was only what was viewable through an archway. 

I stuck orange markers in where i wanted the figures to be, keeping in mind that the three in front are children, and the three in back are mostly in vague silhouette. 

now i used the transform > perspective tool to change the view to this 

this picture was entirely symmetrical so i was ok with 1 point perspective. this gave me an idea though of where to vertically expand things to make this: 

these two i only used perspective for sizing of figures and a vague concept of where ‘straight up’ might be in the first one 

these i manually drew in the points to fit a very rough sketch underneath 

my best advice is try to learn how vanishing points apply to like–non architecture, how a grid can help you even with a figure on a blank background. do i do it? nah. do i know i should more often? yes!!!!  

ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER: Cloth, Folds, Junctions, and Armor -  moderndayjames

Gold Painting Tutorial by CelestialFang

Thanks a lot. I’m glad you like my stuff (:I use a different brushes and coloring techniques. It depends on my mood i guess.In last time I use that.

Sorry, my SAI is only on russian, but I hope it’ll help you anyway.

Other brushes I usually use.

It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.

USING REFERENCES FOR ART IS NOT ‘CHEATING’!!!

If you can draw/paint without references, great!  But if you need to use them, and feel that your art can be bettered by using references, please, use them!  This is one of the biggest tips I can give to artists, is USE REFERENCES! 

Anyone who would dare to attack someone for using references after ‘recognizing a pose’ is a dipshit, who doesn’t know a thing about art.

Do you know who else used references for their art?

Norman Rockwell

Alphonse Mucha

Gustav Klimt

Toulouse Lautrec

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Edgar Degas

Gil Elvgren

Frida Kahlo

Pablo Picasso

Disney Studios

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