Chaosye's Learning to Draw! (8/23/14, Assorted Animations)

[DariusL]

Thanks, man!

I was kind of just throwing everything at the wall for this one; wanted to see what sticks and what falls off into a horrible, goopy mess, you know?

Right now I need to focus on lighting and shading, and some proportion while I'm at that. I think before I really go and tackle backgrounds I need to understand lighting a lot better.

Velocity I have really no clue how to improve on, though. Only ideas I've got is using blur, but that seems a bit too easy.

Blur is harder to use than it looks. It is very easy to overdo it, and it often leaves a very sharp transition zone. You have to go slow and add blur gradually to get a smooth transition.

[Twippit]

Okay, so I finally got a chance to actually read that backstory you wrote up... I must say, that was damned good! I love monster PCs.

In fact... Would you mind if I borrowed that character for an NPC in my campaign? How unique, a half-illithid paladin of Heironeous...

And as for your Darser pic: the leg closest to the veiwer should be larger than the one behind it; also, if he's falling, the bottom side of his clothes should be pressed up against his body, providing the veiwer a sleek outline of the underside of his body and legs. Cloth doesn't naturally bunch up in peaks like that unless it's at rest; cloth generally mooves in long, fluid lines, all pointed in the same direction, much like waves. I hope that helps!

And yeah, that inner cannon fire is epic.

[Chaosye]

Sure, go ahead! Tell me how it goes; I'd expect either a team-up or some slaughtering.
Be warned that he has a remarkably high Disguise skill!

And yeah, that definitely helps; I really should have looked at a reference of some falling cloth and clothing for that one.

[Chaosye]

DA: http://chaosye.deviantart.com/art/Admiral-316958237

Felt like drawing up another one of my old DnD characters again: Admiral TiTsBy, Mechanical Construct Sorcerer!
This one was more of a sketch and I didn't spend too much time on it. Mostly just wanted to test out a bunch of textures I recently got and used some on this!

Edit: Also wanted to test out colored outlines on this one; think I need to go darker when I use em.

[Chaosye]

Didn't feel like it would be appropriate to start a new thread while this one was still in circulation. (And man, oh man, my old pictures are embarrassing!)


DA Link


Littles the Kobold, one of my current Pathfinder characters! (and also some practice on shading and color blending, which is what led to those abnormal feathers; albeit I should really figure out my proportions first.)

[Chaosye]

Because every time I come back here, I end up having something more. Oh well!

Also, I've pretty much moved all my art to my tumblr over here.
More convenient.

Anyway, here's what I've been up to:

Some "Oyasumi Punpun" fanart





Some more D&D art



another animation, as a gift to a much, much better artist



Hope everyone else here has been improving and expanding as well!