Monthly Archives: July 2023

Mackerel study

I’m still calling this the Photshop Takes Zero Skill series even though I’m using Clip Studio Paint now lol.

I’ve never done a colour still life study before, and wow, I really didn’t know where to start to be honest. I laid down GREEN as my first colour! Am I insane? No, I just don’t know colour theory.

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Fish God

Ah MoonEye! The hardest to draw of all my “first” characters. This is technically MoonEye + 18 years, here’s when I last felt I had a proper drawing of him:

I upgraded him from a wizard robe to a kimono, but even then I wasn’t happy with all my attempts to draw him. It wasn’t until I decided to add a haori a few days ago that finally I thought I could get something good, and I did!

But I still didn’t have a pattern in mind, so I just went with fish scales for now. The haori on the other hand, I do like the patterning – even though it’s vastly different from the original photo, the leaves are meant to be the same as those from the trees in the Land of Falling Caterpillars!

Freik, Demonic Guardian

Ah it’s been far too long since I’ve drawn Freik! I also had an argument after my last attempt in Photoshop, so I finally tried out Clip Studio Paint in earnest. The colours are much more muted but that green glow is so saturated! I need more practice with it!

Coffee Break

I really need to practice perspective lines! But I’m happy with how Ris and Irutha turned out, and that’s what’s important to me.

I loved my original picture back in 2015 too, but I wanted to do a redraw of it, which turned out well enough for me to polish!

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