#shacklefunk

I tried to apply some @shacklefunk lighting to a character I’m working on. There’s something about shacks lighting that really appeals. It’s similar to cell shading in that there’s a clear separation between the lights and darks. The lights have a really great glow where they’re more saturated then the light. But you can see in their work that they always choose the right light colors. I’m not sure if they pick a saturated glow color that favors the light, favors the local colors, or mixes both, because you never feel like the light isn’t effecting or matching the local color of the character. The glow is so important because the saturation gives you more of an understanding of how the light works. I also think it’s has something to do with how shack uses layers. The section for light is marked with a solid, hard brush; which seems like it’s on top of the glow layer. This gives you both the effect of a hard, clear, light source, but also the smoothness of soft rendering that’s airbrushed. It sells the glow and brightness of the light, and can be used for warm lights and cooler lights as well. Shack is in my opinion a “renaissance” artist, or master of all traits. Besides excellent character design, they excel at mood lighting. The lighting they place on their characters convey moods and emotion very successfully. I could go on about this with work of theirs but I just wanted to apply some of what I learned from studying their work. As you can tell, I still have a lot to learn. Enjoy!

*MOON AGATE* for @shacklefunk moon agate,Sorry for the colors, I did not know the colors so I improvised, and sorry if you did not like that I had redesigned it.

For anyone who’s been wondering about what that whole shacklefunk thing was about. For reference, this is the third time I’ve had major problems with comissioning art from someone (including having to wait over two years for something that was supposed to take a few weeks) so to be honest I’m just. So done with all this now.

So here’s a warm up of big fluff aqua puff! (sorry this pic is messy. This was meant to be a warm up ^w^u) 

Hi !! Sorry I didn't answer faster, I wanted to be clear-minded for this, and also it gave me time to think a bit about it !Anyway !!For "real" artists, I really like Walter Moers' illustrations, whose level of detailing is simply mindblowing. I'm nowhere near his level, of course, but I know I'd love to slowly get there with my inked work, especially with In Full Circle !I also really like Brett Helquist, who illustrated the Baudelaire Orphans series. I love their sense of composition !! They can pull off crazy angles and very good poses, and I know I was pretty amazed by how good these drawings were as a kid ! It really pushes me to exaggerate and push my poses as well, something I'm not very good at, but am working on !There are also a lot of comic artists, such as Loisel (I love his way of making very different and... Ugly faces, if that makes sense ? I really need to work on that as well because it's just so good !), Philippe Buchet (who did the Sillage series, which I adored as a kid and should really read again, cause man, the backgrounds and details of the clothes were striking) and Hugo Pratt (have you seen the way he shades stuff ? It kills me every time)I've also met and seen wonderful artists on the Internet, such as leppu, who still mindblows me every time I see their work - like, man, the quality of their lineart is to die for ! It's so crisp and neat ! And I also love how varied their faces and characters are. Definitely an all-time favourite !) and queenoftheantz, whose style I keep studying because FUCK, it's GORGEOUS, like, the poses !! the fluidity !! the lines !! the colours !! And there's always a certain eeriness to it, a certain magic, that I keep falling in love with over and over again. shacklefunk is also a great source of inspiration, as they always come up with different and wonderful character designs, and the poses they can pull off are astonishing, especially when they work with multiple characters ! It's so natural and not stiff looking, and I'm super inspired by this ! It's always been one of my goals to draw people interacting together in a natural way, so every artist who can do that makes me go all heart eyes <3I might go back to this list, but these are the first artists that come to mind ! There are others of course but I think these are the main ones. Thank you for this question !! It was a really good one :D

Drew Ya poil @shacklefunk