Daaaaaaaaaaang! That’s striking! I’d love to see some colors but that is just nice as is.
And yup, that was my Gremlin “Stripe” (from memory). It started as a doodle of Artemis, but I was seeing more gremlin in the expression, so I abandoned my original doodle and went with that.
@Chita This looks really cool.
@AfroAtelier I love hearing your insights on color. Especially when it comes to brown. I can see there's a lot of natural control over how everything blends in your pieces.
I kinda feel weird about mixing pop/vibrant colors in heavy inks. I should probably do it though since I do like experimenting with them separately. Thanks for the insight.
@Kelheor Those eyes are something else and the finger pressed up against the mouth is a nice touch! I still find those interactions hard.
Thanks btw. I was trying to go back to clean digital inks and coloring them like I did last year. (When my mind was far more fragile 
). You did point out that they weren't bad and last weekend I got the impression that how I was working then was much more inviting than the colored pieces I've been now. Too much between pop colors, perspective, and half-baked inking. And I struggle to see a clearly comprehensive piece.
@DanielRKM Thank you! I'll color it. I'm in deliberations about that but I need to start
I don't have a real favourite Disney character, since it's difficult to decide. I like villains for their sassy, wicked, genius, and pure evil nature, sidekicks for their uplifting virtues and heroes because they are...well heroic and good role models. I can't choose just one when there are so many facettes to each story and character. Not to mention the many spin offs and Pixar etc.
And I love your sketch of Nani. She's beautiful. It almost looks like a professional rough sketch for the film
My latest sketch, I'll try and redraw an entire mise-en-scene from a still. I tried a detailed study like this since my last ukiyo-e landscape study and those always took the wind out of me.
You can't see much at the moment but hopefully you can make out the expression
@LCT_m_a_d tell me about it, I made a few rules for myself to follow and one of them is that i should incorporate brown as much as I can into my art. It's not always possible but, when it is, you best believe that it'll be a focal point for me.
Each new colour is like trying on new shoes, once you've broken them in it becomes comfortable wear. Once you get more familiar with using colours, you'll end up giving yourself the freedom to choose whether you want to do a grayscale, black&white or use colour. Instead of being limited to grayscale or black&white.
BTW have you ever thought of recording your pencil art or screen recording your digital art. I bet there is a wealth of knowledge in your process that would look amazing to see from start to finish?
@Veropatra ahhh so many good characters and some of the spin off Disney TV shows are top tier! Recently, I got into watch Tangled the TV show and before I knew it, I was binge watching the series! 
I really like how to plan your characters clothes, great use of layering 
and your art looks amazing btw, I can't wait to see more!
@AfroAtelier haha yup! We're a team - without both of us, there's no comic 
. I think I never posted this here, but the last watercolor I did more seriously than trying to knock out a quick sketch was a gift. I didn't love how muddy some of the colors came out - it's always hard because I came originally from oil paints and now from digital where it's much easier to fix/change until it's like I want. Genres, eh? A little bit of everything, please, though I skew consuming more fantasy/action/adventure/romance. Mig's mom just sent him maybe a dozen Sandman comic books so I guess I'll be reading those again next XD. What's your favorite supernatural horror rn?
@Chita thank you! Woot, studies 
dnd seems like such a great incentive to make lots of awesome stuff that you can enjoy with your group <3.
And today's sketch, made-up clothes that could use a few more iterations. It's nice that studios get to divide the concept work and illustrations and other stuff 
. Just another thing to practice.
@migxmeg That watercolour painting is stunning and great choice in picture frames, it goes well with the colours. I wouldn't have even suspected muddy colours if you hadn't have mentioned it! Even still, I can't tell which colours are muddy and which aren't, but that's one of the great characteristics with watercolour, you can never quite predict how the water and pigments will react (especially once they dry and age)!
Get out of town! I just finished listening to the sand man audiobooks I know it's not 100% the same thing but what a small world. And I'm currently considering buying one of Morgan Beams latest watercolour comic: The Hilot of 1910
https://www.morganbeemart.com/copy-of-swamp-thing
But I would recommend her free to read short story comic on Webtoons: wolfsbane
Other than that, Im re-reading Uzamaki by Junjo ito at the moment
Thank you <3. And yeah his mom is hyping for the Neflix adaptation so much - Sandman was something they enjoyed when Mig was a teenager so we'll all be watching that - I had no idea there were audiobooks too already, that's awesome!
Thank you so much for the recommendation, followed on Insta, read first episode and subscribed - damn was that a prologue done right and the art is too good 
. Looking forward to catching up with the rest.
@Black_Conscious oooo, nice shapes. I see the nice makings for some a stain glass version of Mulan.
Some more dragon training.
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@Kelheor - trying to type the victory fanfare for guessing correctly
Tun tun tun, tun tun tan ta na! XD
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Yep love her so much too 
was fun getting to play her, cloud n gang again in FF7R
Looking forward to your polish work on bald guy then, I keep getting a monk vybe from what i saw with the collars looking like robes. Wonder if I'm way off? XD
Many thanks on Issandro's compliments too, yep excited to make those battleworn textures
@migxmeg
thanks my friend 
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I know you'll kick butt at it too when you start 
his pants was one of my personal fave things to work on, used to make lots of abstract patterns in the past never had a use for them until I realized they fit perfect on his pants. Tried to capture a triangle theme on him too
@AfroAtelier thanks my friend! Yep I can imagine it being rewarding documenting the process and you're right especially when examining the steps at a future time, reminds me of looking back at old oc designs vs the new ones too. Nice on cheat sheet,
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I'm totally a slacker on keeping color references and true especially with rl paints, no digital eydropper tool in the RL to save you lol Just saw your Mulan post, those look gorgeous and inspiring
Also for the 3D it varies based on the clothing detail, sometimes it would look better on drawing vs the 3d so I'd have to revise stuff. Issandro's clothing patterns came from older patterns I drew years ago too. I studied 3d formally (Gamedesign) so that has been a boost on the technical side. A major timesaver has been a software called Daz 3d that have generic humans already rigged (3d skeleton) so I'd pop that in blender and build the original physical features, props, clothing, hair etc. I always recommend Daz to other artists it's free and useful on so many levels, they even have a cloth drape feature. Thanks on the positive compliments on the traditional work and angles too, yep tried to use a triangle motif across his deign.
@MerrowBros WOOO congrats! You gon be able to cash that fat one out!
@AfroAtelier, I know this is super late but I freaking love Lilo and Stitch. Saw it in theatres when it first came out! There's a really neat article about how the project was able to be as awesome as it was, and all the cost-cutting they did to stay under Disney's radar to keep it awesome. Highly recommend to anyone who didn't read it: https://www.polygon.com/features/22675483/lilo-and-stitch-disney-animation-chris-sanders-dean-deblois?utm_source=pocket-newtab1
@Kelheor OMG I have been feeling SO crappy the last couple months and I feel like it has to be winter. Like I don't see how it can be anything else.
I TRIED to do some sketching for a character to try and make her be not!Dot. There's so many pieces I don't yet know/like about her writing-wise though that I'm, eh.
Back to our scheduled programing of drawing 6'3" muscley bois I guess. At least they won this week 