Commission - Closed: Tommy's Sketchbook

In the pic of Ala its only 1 type of brush you have in Painter: Oil Pastels (then I picked a rough one). No textures used
The new pic of the Warden (and upcoming Mina ) is getting drawn in Photoshop, which has a few custom brushes in the back and just standard brushes on the warden. In the back of the warden is a custom brush which I based on a grunge texture, so its kind of like using a grunge texture But its all Photoshop though.

Wish I had more time and more focus, but youtube is so interesting!

Doodling a bit more on Mina's work, first skin of her showing, quick basing of colors. Really getting faster at getting quick acceptable shapes

For those interested in following progress or find it educateding (though I detest my own methods of working and would never advice it )

Looking good tommy ^^ I'm so jealous of your painting style.

*should check the forums more often*

*squeals* I LOVE it Tommy! And yes I replied to your PM.

You're making me want to get painter now QQ

@ Gemini: Don't be. The hardest part with painting is (at least that way I experience it) is anatomy and choosing colors. Not the painting itself. And since you have a sense of anatomy and color already, just give it a go, I'm sure you'll do great.

@Mina: Glad you're liking it so far, next wip is probably coming up tomorrow, I think you're going to like it ^^ And as a side note: this painting is so far fullly done in Photoshop, not painter. Though painter has some very fancy brushes, I'm still used to the layout and speed of photoshop. Allows me a lot more layers before slowing down and easier to adjust colors.

I'm doing that fair try on shadeblade's commission, takes forever though as I need to figure how I'm supposed to make texture >_<

I love how well-defined the muscles are on your painted characters Tommy. It's something I'm almost always neglecting in my art xD

I'll admit I'm not actually sure what's going on right now -- are these commissions or are you picking characters to do a series of paintings of the different professions?

gah; this one makes me speechless ._.

Do wardens have the sort of closed/sealed mouths? I've never really looked at them hard enough before, but if they don't they deffinatly should! I really like the colour balance too, it makes Mina sort of pop more and puts the warden in the shadows - which I'm thinking is intended since its sort of dark/scary. I mean, it doesn't have a mouth

@ Gemini: Why you need texture? The only texture I use in Mina's work is behind the warden. You can make very beautiful things without texture. If you want to use a texture, all I can suggest is find a texture you like (just an image that suits), make that image black & white, drop it above the layers you want the texture to be on, then set the layer to a different mod, 90% of the times I do that its either multiply or overlay, whatever looks better and play around with the opacity. Then remove the parts you don't like

@ Araiia: Thnx I really like drawing muscles so its something I tend to give most attention in paintings. I love to draw human skin rather then cloths and all. And I'll admit I don't know what I'm doing now either I'm just doing what I'm feeling like lately. No need for IG money anymore, so I wouldn't call them commissions as they are all free. Sometimes I'm on dA and I think, ah that would be cool for X and Y chars, or I just get an idea randomly, like this time, I wanted a mesmer really mesmerizing a foe, making it totally willless (if I spelled that correctly that means that word has a lot of l's ). So its not really structured to pass all professions or somthing.

@DBAA: I'll take speechlessness as a compliment I have no idea about the wardens IG. I didn't even bother to look at screens To me, the wardens where always Wardens of the Forest. I always thought it cool as a sort of lore-background that they grew from the forest itself and had the humans living in it as example. From that point I went on and tried a bit of augmenting flesh/root kind of skin and I wanted them to be a bit more slim and althletic instead of really bulky I believe the GW models to be. Then I just wanted them to be less humanoid and more monstrous so I sealed that mouth, didnt give it eyes. Perhabs I'll have some roots grow over it or something later, dunno.


More progress, sorry Mina, no face yet for you! Detailed her body a bit and gave her some cloths. Kind of a Nornish interpretation of OC Mina's cloths

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