Some sketches and studies from the stream

Hey, guys!
Heres some stuff i've been doing on the stream the last few times.
I tweet when ever I go live feel free to stop by and hangout.

annnnd links to my twitter and twitch
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Thanks for looking!

Self Portrait

Hey guys!

so... I decided this year to partake in national self portrait day... it was a challenge, in a good way.

I used a mirror and spent like 3 hours on it.

 For most of the painting I did not have my glasses on, so I think it came out way more blurry looking oops :x 

    

all in all, it was a good learning experience and I hope each of you guys try doing one.

Here a link to the timelapse video.

Valiant Goddess Process

Hey guys! :D

I made a GIF of what my process is, and yes, its messy.  

I had some, or a few(?) people asking for the psd to this file, but I really don't think it'd of much help anyone who looked at it. Because, I really only paint on one to three layers, tops.

So I'll just do my best to explain a little of what goes into things of this nature. 

I start off with a low res sketch, then once i'm happy with the composition I up the size of the file, to around 300 dpi.

next I paint in all up in grayscale, and then add a soft light layer on top to add a light wash of the colors I plan on using, but that can always change, so thats why I put it on its own layer.

Once I'm happy with the overall colors I flatten that all down to start painting in details....

 open a new layer paint details, flatten, etc, etc... then do another detail pass 'til I feel I am happy with it. then i call it done and merge any remaining layers (if any?)  

really I treat it like if I was painting in a acrylics or oils. 

so not many fancy photoshop tricks other than overlay and soft light layer settings, for this painting anyways haha ^^      

but yeah, hope you guys are well.

until next time you guys, happy painting! :)

livestream

not long ago I signed up for livestream (yay)

so ya I try to stream every day or so.

heres a link to my livestream!

hope you guys can chill with me there ^^ 

currently been working on this puppy on the stream.

sketches :)

hey guys~

I wanted to share some sketches with y'all today. 

for me at I love looking at sketches the most its just cool to see where all the ideas come from and less intimidating to look at other than finished illustrations. lol xD

   I love sketching faces its fun and good practice. I try to fill a few pages with head and face ideas so I can pull from them in the future... makes it to where ya dont struggle with the illustration and makes the over all drawing go a lot faster.   

also mixing up animals to make a crazy looking creature is lots of fun too. 

hopre you guys have a good day and happy sketching!

things I miss + update

Hello you guys~! hows it going?

So today was meh and yeah, started think about things I used to really enjoy and miss doing.

Like I miss painting in acrylics; I miss the feel of a brush roughly dragging on the uneven canvas surface and having to wait for the paint to dry to see how much the color changes (for some reason acrylics seem to dry a lot darker than when its first applied :x ) and also ruining my favorite clothes looking like an artsy douche with paint all on my clothes lol.

and I miss playing guitar and piano its been ages I think I forgot everything I used to know how to play. lol I dunno why I have done those things in a long time and I kinnda miss it :/ I think I'm gonna take some time to finish the paintings that are gathering dust in my closet. I would like to show you guys some of my traditional stuff anyways, I think it'd be nice.

heres some of my realllllly really old paintings. I'd thought i'd share 'cause sharing is caring ;) lol 

     and i also miss karaoke T_____T