Corel Painter. Again. Because fun. Derp derp.

Small child-y thing. Never drew children before. Thought it would add a cute touch to finish it using Painter’s “soft pastel” tool.

Requester requested anthro art. Did it to see how I would fare. Experimented with Painter’s “soft color pencil” tool.

Promised to post figure/gesture drawings. Here they are.

This one was timed for twenty minutes. I wanted to try sketching with a Prismacolor color pencil.

This one was done in ten minutes with an HB pencil (I think).

And these gesture drawings were done in one minute with the felt-tip end of a black Tombow pen.

So much life drawing… which reminds me that I should probably scan in some of the figure drawing I’ve been doing in my art classes (to show that I’m actually learning and not being some fail animu “artist”)!

In any case, I’ve become so enamored with Corel Painter that I will forever use this program to sketch things out. The next great thing about it is that it can actually save as PSD (Photoshop image files) so I can just go back and forth with programs like a baller.

Y’all might be tired of seeing nothing but pencil sketches… Well, screw you, it’s FUN. I’m still wiggling and geeking out about how the tilt of my stylus translates over to the Painter pencil tool, simulating drawing with the flat end of the lead. Holy balls, this is incredible. It will always be incredible.

This night, I was hit by a sudden case of guilt of how I draw characters… pretty much the same… so I’m going to try and ease myself into a new experimental style. Something a little more… “western”… I guess… It’s difficult to say because I can’t quite state with confidence that this is actually a “new” look that I’m employing. (I’m guessing it’s not.) Hell, it might just be me actually drawing a semi-proper nose, lips, and that… weird U-shaped dip underneath your nose. Oh, well.

Old character, recognizable to only ONE of you (Tim), experimental style. Tried to draw hair with less strokes, a less angular face, less slanty, sharp eyes/eyelashes… It took a bit of internal struggling because I had initially given her a very round face which ended up making her look a lil’… fat. I wanted to slim it down to give it more elegance without resorting to how I USUALLY draw faces so I tried to also give a more pronounced chin. Very marginal difference between this chin and how I usually draw chins. HNNNGH.

Don’t ask why she’s wearing black, shiny leather… I just felt like shading black, shiny leather.

I made a pretty item that I’m proud of. It’s shiny. Here’s the 80 x 80 size…

And here’s the full size that I worked at (300 x 300):

It took way longer than it should have due to watching the DOTA2 International Tournament stream… and then yesterday’s GSL Code S matches. (Yay, professional Starcraft 2!)

I wanted to take my time with the program because I think it has some crazy potential. I usually hate painting on a real canvas because I always feel like such a paint Jew. (Lol, sorry if I offend.) I hate wasting paint, I hate wasting paint thinner, I hate making mistakes that I have to somehow cover up or erase somehow… I like erasers. There are no erasers for paint. That sucks.

It may not be legit painting, but it’s as close as I’m gonna get to painting comfortably without hoping to God that my next stroke doesn’t ruin the entire piece. Anyways, did a bunch of requests from random folks. Still getting to know the squillions of brushes Corel Painter has to offer.

Here’s me messing around with the acrylic brushes and a blender brush. Lol, ganguro.

And, most recently, trying to mess with the millions of watercolor brushes available. So much brush juggling…

… IS SO BALLER. HNNNGH. The control, the tools, the brushes, the ability to tilt my stylus and have the pencil tool simulate shading flat… GYARGH, SO GOOD!!

More testing. Never had so much fun sketching digitally. Someone’s Gaia Online avatar/original character. Got a lil’ messy around the wings because I didn’t want to try and remember how dragon wings looked, lololol. :3

… Is so fun… Got Corel Painter 12, fiddled around, magically made a pictar. Blending is so fun… 😀

YAAAAAAAAAY!

Tiny but detailed item drawrings as well as NPC art. I draw these for virtual pet sites in my spare time. 😛 Most of the items are 80 x 80, but they’re outlined, colored, and shaded on a canvas 3 x the original dimensions. Here are some full-size images:

Productivity! Just not with my own personal art. Good news, though… I’ll finally replace that header up there soon-ish!

In the meantime, here’s an old drawring of my favorite Animal Crossing neighbor!