○ Gunz: Yeah, totally. XD I go on these kicks, you know. And yes, I'll try to color as much as possible now so I can sharpen my skills.
○ Jai: No problem! I'm going to push myself more so I can start improving again.


♠ I . f o r g o t . h o w . m u c h
I love not cell-shading. This was SO much easier than my last update. And I also forgot how much I love this character. For those of you who remember, it's Frei. :D

This one was a personal challenge because I wanted to see what I could do with color. A big problem of mine when I'm shading is that I like tho use the same hue and just vary the saturation/value. On this one I tried to use a good array of hues. I used some blues, purples, and reds in the shadows and blue in my highlights, too. Very fun. It was also a good challenge because I only let myself work on the face for twenty minutes. Then I had to move on!

I should try speed painting more often. Tomorrow I'll try to draw some other people from her world/universe/whatever you want to call it. And yesss, Koehi is in it, too. :)

AHSKJSDGKSUD
ok you need to teach me how you do this. D:

Looks really good Seefy! Can't really findd anything wrong with it.. cept maybe you could make the lips a bit more crisp? Other than that.. cool stuff! ^.^

○ Angel: I really should have taken a video of me this time. D: I can help you start learning, though! What do you want to know?
○ Ego: Thanks! And I agree with the lips. Those have been giving me some trouble lately. XD

God I have fallen so in love with that hat.

AND THAT HAIR. <3 You do blonde well. Blonde is such a silly goose; it can come out too yellow or too white. NICE BALANCE, MISS.

I like the splash of color in the back and I agree with zi, that hair is really nice

THIS PICTURE MAKES ME WANT TO CRY WITH JOY. OMG.

You NEED those books when those photographs can inspire this!

GET THEMMMM.

FFFFFFF. You're art work and I are in a love-hate relationship. :U
I really like color choices you use.

○ Zi: I would hurl small children out of my way to get a hat like that. HURL THEM TO INFINITY AND BEYOND. And secret tiiiiem: I put a mauve color down to start with, then I put a really ugly haystack yellow over it, then put brown on it, then top it off with a greyish yellow. The colors got a wee bit screwed up on this one, because I played with the colors a little bit after I was done, but yes. NOW YOU KNOW MY GUBBERMENT SEKRITZ.
○ Narufox: That splash of color is my imaginary hair that I didn't want to finish. *derpderp* XD Thank you, though!
○ Zizi Jr.: I LOVE HIMMMMM. SOSOSO MUCH. I'd marry the books and I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN THEM YETTTTT. And I'm kinda proud of that one just because I figured out a way to make the paint on her face look not so... I don't know--wet? I used a really weird-looking default brush I found in Photoshop. Man, I love those default brushes. You can seriously do near-anything. XD
○ Jai: Well thank you! (It love-hates you too. ;D) I'm trying not to shade everything to death and back lately, and am trying to get colors to do the same job for me, if that makes any sense. The first habit I had to boot was to stop using black. I never shade with black (usually I'm caught in a love affair with ruddy grey tones), but I like to do details in black, which gives my pictures a certain dead-heaviness that I'm trying to get rid of. SO NOW. I use contrasting colors, a concept I haven't really employed since middle school! *tacky brass fanfare in the background* 8D

I'm sure someone's going to smack me for my noob-ness but what is cell shading?

You really should. Frei=<3 like, pure, honest to goodness love. I love his eyes and the strawish, wiggling texture of his hair and the subtle shades of the skin. Just really nice stuff.

I can't critique it D: but maybe that's a good thing~

Wow, Seef. D: This is probably one of my favourite realistic portraits I've ever seen from you. Apparently speed-painting suits you. x]

Love the colours and how realisitc they are
Only thing i would point out is that the eyes are a bit small. Other than that its awesome :O

○ Son: I agree on those eyes. They're a wee bit creepy if you stare at them. o____o" XD Thanks for the comment!
○ Tay: Thanks! I think it's one of my favorites, too. C:
○ Chii: I'm definitely planning on it. I have to teach myself how to paint a wider array of skin tones. And thank you! I like drawing wiry hair, lol.


♠ I . Q U I T
Ahaha, spent waaay too long on this one, because I couldn't really decide on how derpy I wanted his expression to be. I'm a little angry that I managed to paint the EXACT same skintone as last time, but whatever. XD So I didn't finish it, because I'm a little fed up about working on it for an hour and a half straight. I might finish it later this week or something.

Annnnyway. This is Zen. I kinda hate his name, but it's short for some other, more-terrible name (granted, the terrible long name was on purpose). He is a prince, but a reaaaaally stupid one--which is alright, I guess, because his brother's the one next in line for the throne. He is in the military with Frei, which is really dumb, because a royal guy would never do that--

UNLESS HIS FATHER WANTS HIM DEAD.
*melodramatic evil laugh*

Aaaaaand, yeah, that's pretty much it about this guy, other than the fact that hee haz a brokken hat. :'(

I like how his right eye socket/zygomatic bone area turned out. AND! This is the first time I've kinda sorta drawn lips on a guy that don't make him look like a tranny! But this has its own faults on top of the things I like, so it's just alright. XD



In other news, I'm going out of town until Monday, so no more art updates until then. I probably won't bother to draw anything while I'm gone, either. I'm just going to write. I'll have Internet access, so if you want to read it, you can look out for it in my Creator's Corner thread. :)

Cool teaser Can't wait to see the full version