COTM :F

^^So yeah... another Jazza's COTM :D

Do you know the legend of King Arthur? 

That one with the Arthur taking his legendary human, Excalibur, out of the stone?

Here's final pic:

And here's the full process: 

I'll update text part of a post in a few hours (or days)

So long

PS: I'll update the other COTM post as well :D simply forgot about that.

5th Age Nocturne :D

Like, come on - that had to happen.

I was thinking about giving him a shoulder pads with long cloth hanging out of them, but it ended up like that.

I think I like it more that way, but I'm not sure about that golden coin-like things floating over his shoulders 'tho.

I wanted him to look powerful and fabulous at the same time, so I gave him low angle camera shot, super power-welding pose and pink crystals, because what's more fabulous than pink crystals?

I didn't know how to draw him from that angle so I quickly sketched him from the front view to have something to look at, and then I redrew him. 

Also made some notes about things to keep in mind that are crucial for his design like bigass shoulderpads, bigass blade, and having 5 fingers...

Then I started the refining. Slowly. Very slowly.

At the beginning I wanted to give him golden scrap-like blades because I was afraid of drawing crystals, but here's where I faced the choice: refine hands and shot myself or procrastinate.

So I choose procrastinating and drew those crystals. 

Further refining... I mean I don't know if there is anything to say.

Beside the fact I know shit about drawing forearms and hands... I'll have too practice them more.

It's too vibrant, but the colour saturation is not the thing I want to focus on right now. 

One problem at once.

That month is dry, but It's about my art progress, not spewing bullshit every 2 days, right?

So long

Anime_something_something

^^ I named original file like that and well...

When I'm exporting step-by-step pics I have that tendency of calling them with the first letters of whatever words I've used in the original name.

For example exports for Cell_shaded_01 would sound something like "CS_export_01.png", "CS_export_02.png" and so on and on... 

That name may cause some confusion...

Any ways - I kind of pushed myself once again a bit further than I was...

I've never rendered clothes (wasn't event drawing them that much - really :D), wet surfaces.

Never made full illustration. Never drawn properly looking hands... 

Basically 70% of what you see here I did for the first time and I failed. 

I mean not tremendously, but failed. 

Every time my friend was pointing out a defect in my piece, I was like "eh... artistic liberties", "too hard" or "I'll fix it later" but I didn't.

It's not that I don't want to fix these mistakes. I rather draw something from scratch than fix something that I was working on for last 6 hours...

I can scrap things I know I can redraw in no time but stuff I don't know how to draw... that's another story.

Now I at least know on what I should focus more.

But let's talk about something that happened rather than something that didn't - shall we?

I knew I wanted to do something that resembles images of people like Marc Brunet, WLOP, Evan Lee or Saejin Oh.

Especially Saejin Oh. 

^^made her butt a bit too big (I mean that's what my friend said :D) so I toned it down.

I know that I know nothing about drawing torso(all these diagonal torso muscles), so even if I knew that none of these muscles will be visible later on, I decided to sketch them just for the sake of practice. 

I do that from time to time.

^^That's the typical for me manifestation of frustration

I started with B&W values and blocked out composition.

Then I started the refinement process and of course forgot about making all that step by step mambo-jambo.

^^If you're not sure what to do try making some notes about what you want to achieve or at least what you don't want.

You can always change your mind half way through as I did.

And yup - my writing is that terrible.

So long.