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[Christopher Robin]

Here is a side by side comparison for QueenBethari who is working on shading.

The idea is if you shade the areas not receiving light or being occluded

more rounded shapes will emerge and things will appear less flat.

 

   

 

Extra bonus points if you can tell me

what direction the light is come from Queen.

 

 

 

Edited October 31, 2019 by Christopher Robin

[Christopher Robin]

Annnd just in time for the holiday here is Mr. Halloween!

A winner of one of the many forum contests I had back on "Live."

 

 

 

Edited November 10, 2019 by Christopher Robin

[QueenBethari]

5 hours ago, Christopher Robin said:

Here is a side by side comparison for QueenBethari who is working on shading.

The idea is if you shade the areas not receiving light or being occluded

more rounded shapes will emerge and things will appear less flat.

 

   

 

Extra bonus points if you can tell me

what direction the light is come from Queen.

 

 

 

I would say that the light is coming from the front, maybe slightly above and to the side?

[Christopher Robin]

 

You need to move the word slightly but otherwise correct.

 

I've added two hotspots to make it more obvious and an animation

so you can see the changes between the versions repeatedly if you want.

Seeing the change happen in a continuous loop may give you some clues about

where you want to add your shading for this kind of lighting scenario.

 

        

 

Also there are two mistakes, two places I put a shadow where there should be none.

I was going to fix them but thought why not leave them in case anyone wants to go hunting.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 1, 2019 by Christopher Robin

[Healix]

[Christopher Robin]

Thanks for the birthday notes and PM's everyone.

 

Even though it was my birthday I feel like giving something away

and I think we have enough people for a contest now.

 

Several people seem to be still be in lurk mode or

at least have not introduced themselves so I'll tell you what.

 

Anyone who says hi and a bit about themselves in the welcome thread in the next week

I will add their names to a hat and draw one at random to win some gift artz.

I may call it early if we get enough up front or I may choose more

than one name if there are a lot of responses.

So drop your stealth and say sup!

 

 

[Christopher Robin]

Just wanted to give a quick shout out to Healix. Of all the birthday

well wishes I received here and elsewhere this was by faaaar the most creative.

 

From me as the little boy from Winnie the Pooh (also Christopher Robin I hear lol) drawing an actual piece

from my gallery to the palette & easel cake, campy super hero wall paper and all the shiny balloons, I love it all. Thank you! 

 

On 11/8/2019 at 3:04 AM, Healix said:

TO WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

 

[Healix]

 

 

 

 

 

[Christopher Robin]

Another softbrushing this time it was Comrade Hero's turn.

 

[Christopher Robin]

Last of the Softbrushing for a while, this was another birthday gift artz from Live.

I used to draw a ton of these back in the day... basically anyone who commented on a

fairly regular basis in the art forums got one on their day of Uterine Expulsion Remembrance.

 

Here then is Slithershot, a vigilante I believe, who belongs to SenseiBlur.

As I understand it she's a gene splicing experiment (part human, part snake) gone awry.

 

[Christopher Robin]

Another birthday sketch from back on Live, this was for The Masked Shrike.

 

[Christopher Robin]

And she got an additional present when it was collaboratively

colored in turn by Darth Delicious, Bobby Aquitania and Lord Goat.

In many ways it's a gift to me as well when people do this so thanks again

you guys (and R.I.P. Bobby), I love seeing my stuff get tag-team colored like this.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2019 by Christopher Robin

[Healix]

[Christopher Robin]

Another collab from years past, this was a birthday present for Caemgen.

It started out as a quick sketch of about 17 minutes of drawing,

5 of finger smudging and like 3 of adjustments in PS.

Here then is his Irish witch of sorts, Fenian.

 

 

 

shortly after posting it an artist named Gemma (aka GemArts),

who'd colored some of my stuff before, asked if she could color this.

Of course I said yes, told her the color scheme and here were her results.

 

 

 

I felt I could do more with it so I did some additional tweaking and punch up

work and what started out as a quick sketch soon turned into something rather unique.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 28, 2019 by Christopher Robin

[Healix]

You know what makes your art come alive for me? You have a talent for REALLY making the eyes alive and full of expression, along with your other talents.

 

[Christopher Robin]

On 11/28/2019 at 7:23 PM, Healix said:

You know what makes your art come alive for me? You have a talent for REALLY making the eyes alive and full of expression, along with your other talents.

The eyes are, almost without exception, the first thing that

I draw and often an area of focus. Windows of the soul and all that.

 

Thank you kindly Healix.

 

Oh also, though this is my busy season and I don't have a whole lot of consecutive spare time

for drawing, playing the game or posting as often I'd like, while I am yet awaiting Barbarette's refs I

found myself with a half hour free while running Memtest86 today and thought I would try a quick sketch.

 

Here then is Queen Bethari's Plague of Frogs themed character Pollywog.

I wasn't really too sure how much of her is human and how much is

ranine so I decided to ribb-it and go all in on her froggy-er aspects.

 

Hopefully that decision didn't bog me down too much.

 

 

About 8 minutes of of drawing 15 minutes of crosshatching

and 2-3 minutes of finger smudging. Ref pic here.

 

 

 

Merry Me-Mas QB and thanks for all the likes, comments, costumes and

written content you are creating for our enjoyment. So glad you are here.
 

 

Edited December 22, 2019 by Christopher Robin

[Flashtoo]

I love that! Great depiciton.

[Christopher Robin]

15 hours ago, Flashtoo said:

I love that! Great depiciton.

Thanks Flash.

[QueenBethari]

It's so beautiful, @Christopher Robin! I love it. ❤️

[Healix]

oops

[Christopher Robin]

1 hour ago, Healix said:

oops

I did not mean for that to sound critical in any way, just noticing an oddity.

Removed the reference, left the thanks, that was the important bit.

 

Merry Me-mas @Healix and thanks for all your contributions.

The forums are a better place with people like you here.

 

 

3 hours ago, QueenBethari said:

It's so beautiful, @Christopher Robin! I love it. ❤️

So glad you approve @QueenBethari.

I'm curious, is she supposed to have human

bits (fingers and toes) or froggy bits? I was guessing.

Also does she have a backstory for how she became sentient?

 

 

Edited December 22, 2019 by Christopher Robin

[QueenBethari]

8 hours ago, Christopher Robin said:

 

So glad you approve @QueenBethari.

I'm curious, is she supposed to have human

bits (fingers and toes) or froggy bits? I was guessing.

Also does she have a backstory for how she became sentient?

 

Froggy parts - I think?

Her backstory goes something like this: A mad scientist found the sentient spells that caused the Ten Plagues. The scientist bonded these spells to physical bodies.

I hope that makes some sense. 😁

[Christopher Robin]

It does and noted.

 

Still not a whole lot of time for art but I do have a Work in Progress that I chipping away at.

I have a sketch and pose that I like so I'm going to start working on it.

I'll post more as it progresses.

 

[DJ1]

Think I know who that is

[Christopher Robin]

Oh? And who might that be?

 

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