Playing around with reflective light since scizor is meant to be a steel, bug type.
Fun watercolour fact, the dark grey on its thorax and abdomen are mixed from blue (ultramarine blue) and brown (burnt umber), but if I used a different type of blue and brown, the grey could be a completely different shade or even colour! Talk about having to memorize mixtures and colour theory :')
@LCT_m_a_d thanks mad! Do you have any pointers on how you do your shadows and light sections? You've got one heck'ov'a knack for shading different surfaces
Here's another sketch 
I'm on fire today 
I haven't posted in so long and I recently moved house then got in a new job. I'm actually just on the mend from having a cold and the time off from work let me pick up my pencil and paper again :')
It's good to be back 
P.s. - I lost the reference for my sketch above and wont be able to finishing it...
I always enjoy seeing a diverse array of characters I especially like that they are older!
And close! I use acrylic white ink from the Daler Rowney brand
I was using Winsor and Newton inks but after learning they used insects to make their inks, I had to find a new brand and ended up stumbling across acrylic inks 
Currently bedridden and bored, so I decided to do a fanart of @nathanKmcwilliams Dragon Sparking! It was a delightful read (and I also just remembered I promised you one for your birthday. Super late, I'm sorry).
I hope I do your characters justice. 
@LCT_m_a_d oh aaaaaabsolutely 
@migxmeg lovely! 
how do you usually start drawing from references? Just sketching like usual or building the structure first?
Commission continuation 
Eyebrow scar O_O 
hope we can check out the piece when it's done too if your commissioner doesn't mind!!
There's a quick and dirty blue layer to make sure the proportions/pose aren't too far gone to hell before I get going! I guess that's structure, but shit if I'm not more and more convinced I need to go back to school for anatomy to help tie the from reference drawings (very outline-focused) to comic/oc drawings (constructed poses).
@AfroAtelier When it come to traditional, much of my "shading" choices are influenced by the subject's developing shape, line, and textures right now. So it's basically studying how the elements of design suggest's what I should try from a principal point of view. After that it's just reworking/redoing repeatedly everything until it feels organically supported and principally consistent. I don't have color theory in my pencil work (aside from black and white) so texture is what I kind of listen to the most with animals since they pop. So like the Scizzor is awesome to me because the way you use the natural shapes in conjuction with color contrast creates an organic shadow direction. So how much you emphasis it influences where the light "should" be depending on the overall mood and how artificial/natural the light source is. Hopefully that blurb is somewhat helpful.
@Calculus_Homework I love the way you draw fabrics
@wispysing hopefully you feel better. These are awesome
@migxmeg I love how skillfully balanced the second study looks.
Hope you had a happy Birthday Thread and I see youe were fed lots of awesome sketches from everyone 
Treating the thread like a living thing here XD
just a simple sketch i did on lunchbreak.
One of my fave things is working on the abilities so it's based on an ability the Heroes (Evan and Owen) gain later in the comic.- to sail sky high.
Evan can make Solids and Quasi-solids with his saliva and Owen turns into Gas and flies by default. Over the course of the comic, they better understand their powers & discover various methods to combine their powers .
Did a rough version in 3d for Evan's ability sheet, but who knows, might turn it into a concept art with a more impactful camera angle. Owen would move the bubble from inside while he's in gas form.
@LCT_m_a_d Thank you, I am feeling better actually. Just need a little more rest before I can get back on my feet.
@migxmeg The buried bellybutton treasure...? Also re: buns, I am... feeling very relieved that I wasn't the only one whose first thought was 
Like c'mon, it's winter and I can STILL see your muscles through your clothes? Life just ain't fair.
Also this is vary cute and I might draw it or something1.
In the mean time, here is another player who is a very uh tall boi. Drawing him is a challenge because I've never drawn muscular and long. Only muscular OR long. ETA he is 6'6"/2m tall holy crow.
@LCT_m_a_d Thank you for sharing, I've noticed that when it comes to your works of art you use the fur on the animals that you draw to depict the the different angles, and how the shadow and light curves around the different angles of your subject. For example, I liked "The spirit of change..." as well as "Merry Christmas 2020 ft. Moose" you showed the different planes so well and now that you mention it, I understand how you use the texture to differentiate between planes.
Thank you, it really resonates when an expert at shading, like yourself, appreciates how I depict light and shadow in my work.
Going forward I'll see how I can apply texture to my work, my drawings are fairly cartoonish and disney-esk but I do enjoy adding texture to backgrounds and clothes!
